Into The Woods : It's A Fucking Musical!

Stop, stop right there... Yes even you at the back... Stop...

Watch this...

Right, you watched that, which is the official trailer from July 2014 for "Into The Woods"... Right, you may have recognised a few of the cast, James Corden, Meryl Streep, Tracy Ulman, Chris Pine, Anna Kendrick and the delectable Emily Blunt...

Looks a pretty cool film from that trailer...

You know what this trailer totally and utterly does NOT contain?...

Singing...

You know what none of those cast members are really known for?...

Singing...

Johnny Depp, we forgave you for the Demon Barber bullshit, but why are you here in this for like five minutes flat?  Seriously, five minutes and you got a special "and Johnny Depp" in the titles...

Yes, folks, this fucking film is full of singing, it's a musical... Something I, my wife and my mother-in-law failed to spot before paying to see this fucking thing last weekend.

We went based on this very trailer, we saw that before another film a few weeks before and thought this was pretty much just our sort of thing... Ner.

It's a fucking musical, I saw it say at the beginning "From the Director of Chicago", and I thought... "I hope that's the gangster kind, not that singing shit"... FUCK.

We were genuinely surprised and a little let down, the film was okay, there are glaring problems with the plot, which they wound up and threw away... "Jack your mother died"... no she didn't, she bumped her head, what the fuck!??!?!

Meryl Streep was very good, but they just disposed of her character in the oddest way, and the ending was rubbish...

The family sat behind us in the packed auditorium summed it up best... As the little girl turns to her Dad... "That was a nice film, how long have we been here?".... And his reply "I don't know, but it feels like forever".

I nearly fell asleep at one point, but I'm not paying £9.50 to fall asleep... I feel a little ripped off, and I'd never have gone to see the film with a more representative trailer.

The November 2014 Trailer is different in one key way... Yes, it includes the singing.

John George and Ringo go Deaf as Paul Warbles

I always loved Eric & Ernie, and though this item comes from a documentary about them, it shows something up in stark relief....

And that is that Paul McCartney actually can't sing very well, we all saw, or rather heard this at the Olympic opening in London, but since then I've seen him singing live and he seems to always get gushing reviews, its like he's  only getting reviewed by insane fanbois... or Yes men, and I mean this is getting embarrassing to him now, more so than the yes men George Lucas listened to about Jaja fucking binks.

Anyway, this still comes from the documentary about Eric & Ernie on the BBC, you can see this now for a bit on the BBC iPlayer, the first item of which was a skit with the Beatles...

And you'll see John and George singing just find, but Paul seems to just gap his gob open and closed, he's not singing the same words, of if he is his younger self has the same problem with his fat old cheeks as he has now, with them wobbling in the way of his warbling.