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Jack the Giant Slayer
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Rated PG-13 for intense scenes of fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief language
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Jack the Giant Slayer has a lot of great action, but ultimately fails to be either heroic or magical.
[As usual, this review is full of spoilers.]
The best part about Jack the Giant Slayer is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the giants themselves. Bryan Singer's giants are gruesome, massive, awesome beasts that, in another movie, might have been truly frightening.
Unfortunately, the giants are in this movie, and this movie makes poor use of them. Like Snow White and the Huntsman , I really wanted to like Jack the Giant Slayer . I'm a fantasy dork at heart, and movies like this promise to delight and entertain in ways that were hitherto largely impossible.
And yet, even in an age of glorious CGI, we're give stories that can't hope to match even the rather dated Willow of 1988, full of flat characters we never learn enough about to really care for.
Take Jack himself (Nicholas Hoult, who I loved in the much better film, Warm Bodies ) the titular giant slayer.
He kills three giants in the movie, and yet he never really seems like a giant slayer. His ultimate victory over the giant horde isn't exactly a deus ex machina ---the magical giant-stopping crown was introduced in the very beginning, after all---but it's every bit as disappointing as a deus ex machina would have been.
Likewise, the bean that saves the day was foreshadowed and set up from the beginning, but ultimately still smacks of luck rather than wit or anything particular clever either on the part of Jack or the writers.
Other little details or lack of detail bothered me as well. Why are the people in this magical kingdom so clean all the time? Why do these farmers read so well? Why, in the end, is this modern take on a fairy tale so utterly devoid of any modern sensibilities? Why is the king (Ian McShane, all dressed in gold) so hard and then so inexplicably soft? Why does Jack get the girl? Why does it all have to be so bloody neat and tidy?
Maybe that's how fairy tales are: neat and tidy, and the boy always gets the girl. But there's not enough fairy tale magic here to justify fairy tale neatness.
Worse, the movie gets the villains all mixed up. It wants us to think that the giants are the real enemies, but they're just pawns of the true villain, Roderick (Stanley Tucci) the right-hand man to the king (and, quite bafflingly, the man promised the hand of the princess---is he supposed to be Jafar?)
Unfortunately, Singer wants us to think the real villains are the giants themselves, so he conveniently kills off Roderick in the Second Act, leaving us with a big, snarling, two-headed behemoth as our nemesis. It's a great monster, but not a great villain.
The thing about good fantasy is that the true monsters and the true villains are always the most human. They may not be actual humans, but their humanity, blackened and bruised though it may be, sheds light and darkness on our own. There's nothing surprising or satisfying about a giant warlord; good drama comes from the betrayal and brutality of recognizable characters.
The Roderick set-up could have been so much better and so much more prolonged than it was.
We know instantly that Roderick is a Very Bad Guy. We're never surprised by his atrocities or betrayals. We're never given that great moment where we, the audience, is also betrayed and aghast. Nor are we given that great moment at the end when the betrayer gets what's coming to him. Instead, we get a dead giant. We get many dead giants, actually, and we don't really care about any of them, dead or alive.
The beans are handed off to Jack, but we don't really know why, only that it's important. We don't have the story of the giants told to us upfront, but we know this is about giants because it's called Jack the Giant Slayer.
We don't have the villain revealed from the get-go, either, and we see Roderick in a much more sympathetic light at first.
So Jack gets his beans and takes them home and gets in trouble, etc. etc. Then princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) shows up---she's run away but we're not sure why, because our information is limited. We're limited to Jack's perspective, to his knowledge of events. There's some actual mystery because of this.
One thing leads to another, beanstalks shoot up into the sky, Jack falls, Isabelle disappears and then Jack and the knight Elmont (Ewan McGregor) go to save the princess.
This is when we discover our giants. And maybe we have a really good Second Act that's actually really scary, with Jack and Elmont and Roderick and everyone else appearing to work together (still unaware that Roderick is a megalomaniac turncoat) to escape the giants and find where they're keeping the princess. There's some great opportunities for tension and fright moments in that misty forest, as well as character development and camaraderie (which we got some of in the film, but not nearly enough.)
The Second Act would end with Roderick's betrayal (gasp!) and the Third would begin with the flight from the giants' kingdom to the world below. You'd have your battle and at the climax of that battle you'd have Jack or Elmont or Isabelle kill Roderick which would in turn lead to the giants' defeat.
This way you'd have some rising action, some tension, some character revelations, and a good betrayal/revenge finale that would tie the whole thing together.
Then again, I'd also have Jack kill at least a couple more giants in the process, and---because I'm merciless---I'd probably kill off Jack, too. I don't like this nice and tidy ending, you see. It's like something out of Disney's Tangled . The farm boy doesn't become the king, ever, and it's just silly to try to sell that to an older audience. Maybe he goes off on some adventure in the end, and maybe Isabelle runs away after him, to find him, but the saccharine sweet nice and tidy fairy tale ending that's contrived for us in the actual movie? No thanks.
Jack the Giant Slayer had all the right pieces for a really great fantasy adventure. But ultimately, the movie didn't know what it wanted to be, and didn't spend enough time figuring out how to tell that story. It couldn't make up its mind over whether it was a kids fairy tale, or a more modern, adult re-imagining of a classic fable.
It opted for a little bit of both and suffered the consequences of being half-baked, through and through.
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In the fairytale "Jack And The Beanstalk" — there's only one hero. But in the new movie "Jack The Giant Slayer" director Bryan Singer doubles your hero pleasure. BRYAN SINGER: "i needed one to be the romantic lead and the other to sort of be the guardian, the pal and i think star wars had Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo, so that was kind of the model."nick Holt's jack is the romantic lead. He opens a gateway between the worlds of the humans and the giants with the beans he swapped for a cow. And so the ancient war between the two starts up again. NICHOLAS HOULT: "it was a real misjudgment at the time, I was sitting there and I was confused."Ewan Mcgregor plays elmont the guardian. He's sent to save the day. "e" said he loved his role — except for one scene even though he was rolling in dough. EWAN McGREGOR: "Was not fun they had to turn me they had to roll me over and in order to do that they made a mold of my body, which was then like two halves, I had to lay in one mold, the bottom mold and then they clamped the top one on top of me then velcrowed it shut so now I couldn't move and then they had to dress me in it and then they put my clothes on and I got totally claustrophobic."Director Bryan had no sympathy at all. In fact, he took great pleasure in tormenting the cast.Hope it was worth it.
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