A movie that can teach you real life lessons and be amusing for both adults and children of all ages is almost unheard of lately; a good movie can be hard to come by. It was almost unheard of the past few months until ‘Into the Woods’ premiered.

I took my little brother to see “Into the Woods” expecting it to be a little charming but not much else, completely unaware that it was a musical, which happens to be my favorite genre.

The movie starts with narration, accompanied with singing, telling you the four main stories that the movie will be following: Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, and then a story to go off of about a childish baker. With an all-star cast, the audience was drawn in immediately.

Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, and many more splendid favorite along with some newer actors flashed across the screen, humming and singing sweet melodies.

The entire plot of the movie is for the Baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) to get four items for the witch (Meyrl Streep) so she can reverse the spell and they can have a baby: a cow as white as milk (which comes from Jack), a hood as red as blood (Red Ridding Hood), a shoe as pure as gold (Cinderella), and hair as yellow as corn. Which begs the question, where does the hair come from?

At this point the viewer becomes sort of confused and consumed trying to find an actor with blonde hair. Eventually, another fairy tale comes along, but that’s for you to find out.

Coming to the end of the movie, it’s a fairytale so everyone lives happily ever after right? We’re still missing the life lessons remember?

The stories all intertwined and combined to form one vast story line where several problems occur. To name a few, a character cheats on her husband, a child faces unrealistic expectations put onto him by his mother, and even how to handle a broken family.

All of this heavy baggage accompanied by 23 songs made it easier for the children to digest. Along with a few that happened to make the audience crack up with the content like the song “Agony” performed by Prince Charming (Chris Pine), and Rapunzel’s prince (Billy Magnussen). The two Princes, being brothers, start talking about the pain they are feeling because neither one of them can have their princesses. The entire song is just two brothers trying to one up each other.

This movie clearly had it all. Without a doubt you leave the movie theater happy and enlightened (even without a happy ending).