In the meantime, the story is a hodgepodge of English fairy tales. Great Scott, it’s a pantomime! Jack and the Beanstalk begs for double entendre! Its bizarre omission calls to mind Danny McBride’s childishly excellent Your Highness, a film almost entirely comprised of innuendo and which, like no other, illustrates just how redemptive a penis joke can be. Wit is fully absent without official leave. Jack the Giant Slayer therefore has a cloying excess just about everything – everything, that is, except wit. The idea seems to have been to take anything of note in the fantasy genre of recent times – there are hat tips to The Princess Bride, The Hobbit, How to Train Your Dragon, Beowulf, Prometheus, Immortals among many others – and to stitch them together in the expectation that it might all fly.
Starring Vinnie Jones” is quite a benchmark), I can’t remember a film quite so bankrupt in its basic concept. Other than Age of the Dragons (and, let’s face it, “ Moby Dick. Patrick’s Day amidst a throng of drunken Irish revellers, this was a misjudgment all of its own. Since the screening took place in Leicester Square on St.
They erected a 20 foot high climbing wall outside the cinema to mark the launch. Here rather more is at stake, at least if the fanfare that accompanied its preview screening is anything to go by.
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