You're listening to Once, episode 178, Into the Woods movie review.

Music Welcome back to another episode of Once, the unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis.

I'm Jeremy Loflin. And this episode is made possible in part by linda.com slash once. I'll tell you more about them in a little bit. We got to see the movie into the woods. Now, don't worry, we're not going to spoil it for you yet. The first portion of this discussion will be spoiler-free. We'll let you know before we talk spoilers.

We'll let you know before we spoil you.

But in general, there was some spoiling going on in the movie.

In general, what did you think of Into the Woods?

I would watch it again.

Really?

I would.

Now, I'm the perspective.

I wouldn't watch it again.

Oh.

It was a fun movie.

If you're not familiar, we have not seen the musical.

We're approaching this from the perspective of seeing the movie, being familiar with the fairy tales.

Of course, because of once upon a time, the TV show, we're familiar with Disney's take

and also some of the actual traditional takes on these fairy tales, the actual traditional version, rather, of these fairy tales.

So we've approached it from that perspective. I've heard it's very true to the musical.

Yeah, if you're an into the woods buff, then some of what we say may be obvious. You may disagree. I don't know. We're just

coming to this story and the movie fresh. It's definitely a musical. Like to the level of

Les Mis, where almost everything in the movie is set to music. In fact, just the intro song lasts for 15 minutes, and it's basically the same thing.

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