Adapted from a Broadway play, the film brings together four popular stories and characters from "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Rapunzel" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" from Grimm's fairy tales, and puts on a satirical veil to form an "adult". Fairy tales".
Bullied by her stepmother and sister, Cinderella is eager to attend the king's ball. The poor Jack family hopes that the aging cows can produce milk, bring a certain income to the family, and improve the family's life. The kind baker couple wants to have a child and start a complete family. Little Red Riding Hood went to the baker's shop, took a basket of bread, and went to the grandmother's house in the forest.
The witch told the baker that his father had stolen his magic beans and that he had been punished by his mother for getting old and ugly. So I cast a spell on them so that they couldn't have children. But she can take back the curse on the condition that, within the next three days, she finds a cow as white as snow, a red cloak as blood, a pair of hair as yellow as corn, and a pair of shoes as solid as gold.
The baker went to the forest in search of these things, and his wife followed. Cinderella secretly came under the willow tree to pray for her dead mother, and got a beautiful dress and a pair of crystal slippers, Cinderella transformed into a gorgeous dress and set foot on the way to the ball. Jack's mother told him to go to the market and sell the cows. So people came to the forest with their own wishes.
The baker and his wife met Jack and the cow, and the wife told Jack to trade his 5 magic beans for his cow, which had magic. The baker felt guilty about his wife's deceit, and asked her to take the cow home and find the rest alone.
The witch locked her daughter Laponzel (Rapunzel, who was adopted by the witch, but was actually the baker's sister.) on a high tower in the forest to prevent her from being harmed by the outside world. Her wheat-yellow hair was very long. Has been dragged under the tower, let the witch pull the hair to climb up the tower.
Little Red Riding Hood met the Big Bad Wolf. The Big Bad Wolf deceived Little Red Riding Hood. He rushed to his grandmother's house ahead of time and ate his grandmother. The baker found the wolf, killed him, and rescued Little Red Riding Hood and his grandmother. As a gift, Little Red Riding Hood gave the baker his red cape.
Jack returned home and gave the bean to his mother, saying it was a magic bean, but the mother didn't believe it and threw the bean on the ground angrily. As a result, the bean is really magical, and it quickly grew into a towering tree at night, reaching the clouds.
Cinderella went to the ball as she wished and danced with the prince alone, but she also had to leave before twelve o'clock according to regulations. As Cinderella passes through the forest, the baker's wife finds the shoes on her feet that the witch asked to find. She ran out to snatch Cinderella's shoes without success, and she lost the cow.
Jack climbed the bean tree, met the giant, got five big gold nuggets, found the baker, and was about to get back his cow, the baker said that his wife brought the cow home, Jack thought he gave me too little gold nuggets , run home to get more. The baker was angry when he found out that his wife had lost the cow, but they made up after a while. The baker went looking for something alone, and the wife promised the baker to go home, but she didn't go.
The baker's wife tricked LaPonzel into putting her hair down on the tower and stole it from her. Once again Cinderella escapes the prince, who chases after him on horseback and meets the baker's wife. The baker's wife was walking alone in the forest late at night, which caught the prince's attention.
The baker finds the cow, sees his wife get the hair, and finally agrees with them to act together. At this time, Jack took the golden egg to redeem his cow, but saw that the cow was dead. A prince fell in love with La Penzel, but was discovered by a witch who blinded the prince. Laponzel's long hair was cut off and she was locked up in the swamp.
Jack meets Little Red Riding Hood, who is now wearing a cloak made of wolf skins and has a dagger in her hand. Jack shows Little Red Riding Hood his golden egg, which he got from the Giant Kingdom, and Little Red Riding Hood doesn't believe it. The two of them argued, and Jack was ready to climb a tree to prove himself. Jack stole the giant's harp, the giant chased after him, Jack cut down the bean path in fear, and the giant fell to his death.
Cinderella's prince throws another ball, hoping to find her. The prince got Cinderella's crystal slipper, but did not catch up with Cinderella. The baker's wife managed to get the shoes from Cinderella, and in a hurry, she dropped a bean and the beanstalk rose into the sky.
The baker and his wife have managed to find all four things a witch needs. The witch revived the cow and made a potion of these things, and after drinking it, she became young and beautiful, and the curse of the baker's death was removed. But also lost the magic.
Cinderella's prince searched all over the country for a girl who could wear the crystal slipper. Cinderella's sisters cut off part of their feet and put on the shoes, but they were finally found out. Cinderella appears, wins the prince, and Cinderella's bird pecks the eyes of the sisters.
La Ponzel met the prince in the swamp, she crossed the swamp full of poisonous snakes and insects, and healed the prince's eyes with tears. Cinderella and the prince were married at the castle, Jack and his mother lived a rich life because of the bean path, and the baker and his wife had children. Everything will have a happy ending.
But the giant's wife, the giantess, was very unwilling to find out that her husband was dead, and she climbed down another bean path to take revenge. She destroyed the forest and destroyed most of the kingdom. Most people can't find their way home and get lost in the forest. The witch found La Ponzel and was going to take her away, but La Ponzel disagreed, and she followed the prince. The witch was heartbroken.
The baker and his wife handed the child to Little Red Riding Hood to watch, and split up to find Jack. The baker's wife met Cinderella's prince, who cheated on him and molested the baker's wife. Although the wife likes the prince, she decides to stay with her husband and children. But she was crushed to death by a fallen tree. The witch finds Jack, and Jack finds the baker's wife's scarf.
People get together, arguing, shirking their responsibilities, all deciding to sacrifice others to save themselves. The witch proposed to hand Jack over, but the others disagreed. They put the blame on the witch. The witch angrily threw out the remaining beans. As a result, the curse was triggered, a crack appeared in the ground, and the witch fell into it.
The heartbroken baker leaves the child in the care of Cinderella, when the father's spirit appears and tells him to learn to take responsibility. Cinderella's bird tells her about the prince's infidelity, and Cinderella and the prince part ways amicably. The baker returned to everyone and discussed how to deal with the giantess. Cinderella's bird pecked the giant's eye, and Baker and Jack took the opportunity to kill the giantess.
Everyone learned a lot from this experience, the baker's wife's soul appeared and asked him to tell the children what happened in the forest and teach them to cherish. Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella have nowhere to go, they can't go back to their home, and the baker invites them to live with him. Everyone is starting to fulfill what they have now, but Cinderella is still praying for new wishes.
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