"Jack the Giant Killer" PG 13
Bryan Singer expands an old children's fable about Jack and The Beanstalk into a big loud action movie with CGI enhanced giants and a strange British world during the feudal age. Turning a simple short story into a big budget riff ala Lord of the Rings, just as was done for other recent fables, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Hanzel and Gretel, Beastly, Mirror Mirror, etc, (not reviewed), Hollywood's attempt to modernize these things into ridiculous showpieces for modern children is kind of silly. Jack and the Beanstalk would have be en better as an animated movie by Disney. Live action just doesn't cut it. The actors don't seem too comfortable as acting against green screens and special effects must be hard. The A list actor cameos are interesting in that the actors probably didn't know what they were getting into. It's not a horrible movie but ist is dumb and loud. If you like watching people running and ducking giants swinging clubs or a war between a castle and giants, it's all there. The FX were not done by ILM or Weta. It was Digital Domain. They also had a 3D version so a lot of the gags are for 3D.
Popcorn rental material.
But what I always wondered, even as a child and the original story, is how the heck the Giants realm could float in the clouds if it clearly was so heavy, with all thous giants. It did not have anti gravity and did not appear to be a space vessel of any kind in the film. Ha. I guess I think too literally sometimes.
Oh and look for the groan causing gags in the film. Yawn.
Review by Adam Browne
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