Glad to read your review Musical Master, and I’m so glad you so enjoyed it as you did. I think your 9.5 out of 10 rating is perfect. The film felt almost perfect but just needed a little something more…a little fixing.
Finally, Musical Master said that the Witch tells Rapunzel “But there’s a giant!” as Rapunzel runs off, so THAT makes the lyrics of “Witch’s Lament” make sense to me. Finally! Because she's thinking Rapunzel will not be safe if she doesn't listen that there is a giant about.
But about Rapunzel, your child rejecting you is NOT worse than death. Your child dying IS worse than them running away from you. If you don’t think so, just think if you said to any mother whose child died, “Oh, but it’s not as bad as them rejecting you and running away.”
Does anyone else think the Witch should have said to Rapunzel, “I was going to come back for you when you learned your lesson?” like in the original show so we know she wasn’t going to banish her to the swamp for good? Or does the line “Now you don’t have to be embarrassed by me” cover that?
Meryl Streep was so stupendous and emotionally great in this film. James Corden turned out to be emotionally great in the end, too.
I don't think the Witch should have said "I was punished with ugliness if I ever lost the beans" or "he took away my youth and beauty" or showed as much of her transforming as they did because then the "well that's another story, never mind" joke doesn't work.
I think the Baker's father may have died, even a long time after he ran away, or the Baker was imagining him, or he really did meet his long lost, alive father in the woods, but the Baker didn't want to talk to him.
Showface, I agree so much about what you said about Meryl Streep’s acting when they use the wrong ingredients and she says “Forget about a child” out of sadness and hurt and “what were you doing there?” with sadness. Much better than any of the previous Witches!
J_Jammer, emotions can and do happen between people even within just a few days time, so Cinderella could have at least shown some emotion about the Prince cheating on her. Just a little something. She was at least attached to him enough to want him to find her and marry him. And showing the land of the giants would not have been a waste of money, it would have made ‘Giants in the Sky” a little less story-halting. And it would have been nice to see the ball and Cinderella dancing with the prince. Both things they couldn’t afford, but they WANTED to do, as I read in an interview.
I loved how beautiful “Cinderella at the Grave” was except there needed to be a magic effect besides the leaves to transform Cinderella. Blowing leaves is not magic. A sparkly glow would be. And we should have seen the Witch transform to beautiful, instead of just seeing shots of her ugly, then shots of her beautiful.
Updated On: 12/29/14 at 01:38 AM
