Jersey Boys Movie Review - Beyond The Trailer 

That's what separates people from good reviewers & biased fan reviewers.

Thanks, Maxime! And yes, the changes for Into The Woods are slated to be the top story on MMN tomorrow, which remember is over on the new BTTMovieMath channel. I appreciate the topic suggestion and I hope you're enjoying your summer! - Grace

Beyond The Trailer I'll be very fascinated as to what your thoughts are on these plot changes, Grace. I performed in Into The Woods in my senior year of high school, and we definitely had to make few minor changes to make the show more audience friendly because we knew a lot of kids would see the show for the fairytale characters. All the essential elements we kept though, because Into The Woods is definitely a much more family friendly story overall than, say, Rent. Personally I'm fine with most of the changes, because even though some of them are big, like the situation involving Rapunzel, I don't think they'll hurt the overall story (I'm not sure how familiar you are with the whole show, so I don't want to ruin it for you if you want to be surprised). The good thing is that overall, at least Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine (the original songwriter and book writer respectively) are heavily involved with the film. I think it's always good to have playwrights or composers involvement in a film adaptation of a stage work if they're still alive. While I'm sure they're probably going to make this film version as family friendly as possible, I don't think they'll cut out the major dark elements overall, because as Disney has proven time and time again, they're never afraid to go there with dark and frightening material.

Beyond The Trailer I am not happy with the changes. Into the woods is a very dark musical with a dark ending. He said that characters will have different fates. SPOILERS- the bakers wife is killed by being crushed by a tree that was knocked over by the giants wife [the main villian. besides the witch] and the witch dies. typical disney sugarcoating everything

I'm willing to bet that the Baker's Wife still dies, as her death serves as an important part of the Baker's development as a character. Of course, in the show, Rapunzel's death leads to the songs Your Fault & Last Midnight, where the Witch technically dies too. However, Stephen Sondheim has said that new songs have been written for the Witch to sing, so I think that'll take care of the problem there. Of course, we'll have to wait until the final product hits theaters before we can truly judge. The Harry Potter films left out a lot of stuff from the books completely, or several events were changed around in terms of characters, but that didn't hurt the films too much, in my opinion. I still think and hope this film version of Into The Woods will have the same bittersweet tone of the ending that the original musical did. Disney hasn't been afraid to be dark or bittersweet before, so let's hope that not all the dark elements of the show are cut. I don't think they will be.

So remember Dylan, nothing's been said about the Baker's wife. It's Rapunzel that won't die in this film.

Yeah I agree with you. With story points not set up and not knowing how to judge how much time had passed.

I'm 16 years old and I love the Four Season's

Tony Camacho , That's all well and good, but you must admit that you aren't representative of the typical demographic for their music.

Well I grew up listening to all 40's-60's music by my parents and my grand parents and I'm glad I did.

Four season fans are still alive and well : / I being one of them

I didn't say they were all dead. I said they were dying off.

Aw, thanks!! :) - Grace

My mom is one of those older fans, and this movie got her to make the extra effort to get out and see it in a theater. And she cried at the end. No one is expecting this to do Transformers numbers, but for that target audience, it's great.

Zillamon51 good for her! Precisely the target audience for this film.

i don't like musicals either but this has amazing music you know its not like high school musical which no disrespect but there's a reason why the four seasons were such a hit, anyways this movie transported me back to the 50's for a while and i truly enjoyed it i wanted to sing along !!!

She's a FILM CRITIC, not a stage critic. Is she also not "legitimate" if she doesn't read a book that a movie is based on? A movie needs to stand on its own, whether it's based on a play or a book or whatever.