Starring: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Please don't go and see this is you take movies too seriously. This is nothing but good, kick arse, twisted fairy tale fun. If you have a tendency to analyse a movie to death, don't bother, it's not going to win any awards and I guarantee you, the director probably doesn't care what you think.
Did I like it?
Hell yes!!!
Hell yes!!!
Hansel and Gretel, as the title suggests, is about the German brother and sister invented by the Grimm Brothers in the 1800's.
The film opens with the story we all know about the siblings being left in the woods by their father and finding themselves in the cottage of a rather frightening looking witch.
The film opens with the story we all know about the siblings being left in the woods by their father and finding themselves in the cottage of a rather frightening looking witch.
Against all odds, the plucky Gretel, manages to use her brains and they make the first of many career kills.
Much older now, and with a fair few kills under their belts, the pair hire themselves out to whoever needs their unique skills. But this time, they come up against something they do not expect in the form of a Grand Witch, played by the stunning Famke Janssen, who is leading a larger band of witches in stealing children from a nearby village.
Along the way they pick up a couple of stragglers in the form of a love interest for Hansel, a love sick teenager who follows Gretel around like a puppy dog and an unusually large companion who comes in handy at the end of the film.
It had a similar feel to Van Helsing and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, but I found it a bit more exciting.
The CG is pretty good, rather gorey and very bloody. I loved the weapons that they had and the various ways in which many witches......pardon the pun.......meet their demise.
This was good fun, nothing more.
Please don't think it's suitable for kids because if you take them to see it, then you deserve to have them wake up screaming in the middle of the night. This is one bed time story that is NOT for kids.
Major bonus seeing Jeremy Renner without a shirt on. Hansel works out apparently!!
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