Movie Review: With Sex and Gory Violence, Hansel & Gretel: Witch ...

Location

Wide Release

Dates

Opens Jan. 25

Clearly straining to distant itself from its children?s story origins, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters layers on the ultra-bloody violence, nudity, and even jarringly out-of-place F-bombs.

After a quick prologue re-imagining the familiar fairytale about two kids taken prisoner by a witch who lives in a house made of candy, the story jumps ahead many years to find Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have gone pro with their evil-slaying talents.?They?re hired to dispatch the nasty creatures who stole a dozen children from?a medieval village, and they come to learn a secret about their own past (a secret the screenplay telegraphs well in advance) in the process.

It?s slightly amusing to see H&G employ such anachronistic devices as a primitive record player, a hand-cranked heart defibrillator, and insulin shots (Hansel is diabetic thanks to all the candy the evil witch forced him to eat as a kid) in the course of their quest. But when the big showdown comes, and our heroes are simply able to mow down a coven of witches with a Gatling gun, where?s the magic in that?

Source: http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2013/01/movie-review-with-sex-and-gory-violence-hansel-gretel-witch-hunters-is-a-kiddie-story-with-adult-pretensions/

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