Rambles about the wonderful world of wrestling.
It has been said before and it will be said again, comedy sequels ain’t easy. Keeping what is good about the first, but not treading over old ground is a hard game to play. However, it has never stopped Hollywood churning them out at a rate of knots and with Pitch Perfect having been ten times more successful than anyone could have predicted, it is hardly a surprise to see number two hitting our screens.
Horror comedy is a tough genre to pull off. It requires that you to both produce scares and laughs to truly pull it off and for every Evil Dead 2 there is a whole host of shit that we don’t want to remember. Stepping into that difficult arena is The Voices, directed by Marjane Satrapi whose previous film Persepolis, it’s fair to say, is a very different beast from this one.
Dark fairy tales are all the rage at the moment. With authors like Neil Gaiman proving popular and cinema adaptations of classic Disney fare like Snow White and Maleficient, it seems like the classic stories are back in vogue. Therefore, an adaptation of Steven Sondheim’s musical, Into the Woods, seemed like an inevitability. The musical tells the story of several classic fairy tale characters; Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel, but rather than ending the stories at the traditional time, we go beyond that and see what happens after the happily ever after. Sadly, it’s not quite as happy as you might suppose.
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