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Am I in the minority for liking this film?


I'm a huge fan of the show and I'll always love the Bernadette Peters cast album, but I will say that I still very much impressed with this film. Sure, it does somewhat tone down some of the more "dark" elements of the movie (and even then, whether Rapunzel and her prince live "happily ever after" strikes me as ambiguous), but only marginally. The end result of this movie still felt very faithful in spirit to the musical and very little of it was lost. I do agree that the second act with the giant was a bit too fast-paced, but I still thought the movie did an excellent job of transferring the show to the screen. The decision to have the Baker be the narrator works in favor of the ending, and even though I loved the idea of the narrator being bumped off in the show, realistically, I think it would have been impossible to capture on film. As someone who is familiar with the songs of the show (and actually did sound effects for a stage production at MCC), I'd say they did a solid job transferring it. I loved the performances of the cast; they all took to the task of performing Sondheim's intentionally jerky score and pulled it off well. The kids were especially great.

Now I can understand why some people might feel misled since Disney's marketing did kinda trick them into see this show, but I don't think it deserves half the scathing audience notices it receives. Apparently the critics thought it turned out well for the most part (the New York Times critic, especially, and he's a tough one to please).

But I guess I'm in the minority for saying this.

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You're actually not the minority. It's just those who hated it have gone so out of their way on this page to trash it because they felt robbed from their own stupidity of not researching whether or not it was a musical.

I thought it was a phenomenal adaptation and went in ready as a fan of the musical, to criticize it


There are issues in it sure, but the good very very very much outweighs the problematic.

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I love this movie.

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No you are not in the minority i loved this film i saw it at the theater 7 times.

"Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions"

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If you are, then so am I.

Let Zygons Be Zygons.

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If you think about it, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping beauty are "Disney Properties". The last three are the core of the Princess line since the 50's. In the original musical both the princes are major dickwads dumping both Cinderella and Rapunzel for Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. I don't think Disney wanted that. At least someone got a happy ending...

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LOL, Cinderella getting dumped for Snow White, I would have liked to have seen how that went down! I saw the film yesterday. It was 50/50 to me. The ending was sweet and sad.

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I honestly loved it. :)

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Thought the show was great and the film a worthy effort.

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I loved it:)
Haters gonna hate!!

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