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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

12/28/2014

Into the Woods (2014)

A pretty great translation from stage to screen, though there were a couple of missteps. I think Johnny Depp just didn’t work as the wolf. The stage version has exposed genitalia on the wolf costume and I get that they were probably going more "family friendly" in this version, but taming the sexual innuendo between Red and the Wolf just made things weird. And I don’t understand the cutting of the second princes’ duet (vid below) as it would’ve served as a much-needed lighter moment in what ended up being a very heavy back half.

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