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Product Description Get ready for a twisted take on the
classic tale as Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma
Arterton) have turned pro, coping with the trauma of their
childhood captivity by slaying witches for hire. But when the
seemingly unstoppable bounty hunters meet their match in an enemy
so evil, it'll take all their training, weapons and courage to
survive.Special : Reinventing Hansel and GretelThe
Witching HoursMeet Edward the Troll Amazon.co.uk Review
There are too many body parts flying around Hansel & Gretel:
Witch Hunters to single out the tongue that has nearly been
gnawed off in the cheek of its clever premise that fairy-tale
heroes have grown up into savage supernatural mercenaries. Jeremy
Renner and Gemma Arterton strut around like 18th-century Avengers
in leather uniforms, cursing up a storm of modern vernacular and
bearing an inventive array of historically and mechanically
impossible weapons such as grenades, crossbows, tasers, machine
guns, and other weapons of witch-killing mass destruction. It's
all a big joke of course, and one that the movie wears boldly and
without a shred of irony. To quibble with its gaps in narrative
logic or be righteously indignant that the script is often a
slapdash mess is to miss the point that it's all meant to be a
pile of plain old silly fun. After their childhood trauma at the
gingerbread house, the famous Teutonic siblings are now in the
business of killing witches full time, hiring themselves out to
villages plagued by ugly, evil women wearing loads of scary
makeup (Famke Janssen being the evilest and scariest) who feed on
the townsfolk's kids. They do their job well and the movie spares
no opportunity to show the effect of their fantastical arsenal
with profusions of firepower, explosions, viscera, and disgusting
cartoon violence, decapitation being the most favoured method of
killing by the movie and the title characters both. As the latest
in the trend of revisionist fairy-tale telling, Hansel & Gretel:
Witch Hunters takes the low road whenever possible, but it does
so with a blithe spirit, a foul mouth, and the above-mentioned
gore galore to create a B-movie soul that pities any sort of
critical over-analysing. It's also pretty funny. There are
several inspired offhand moments, such as the missing-children
notices slapped on the sides of farmers' milk cans or the way
Hansel has to make time for insulin injections because of the
gingerbread overdoses he endured at the hand of the proto witch
he and Gretel encountered as children. The art direction,
wardrobe, and anachronistically engineered props that propel the
story all have a cool steampunk design theme and make the
silliness pretty hard to resist. Renner, Arterton, and Janssen
aren't really taking things too seriously, which is fine because
neither are we. This is the American debut of Norwegian director
Tommy Wirkola, who brings the same playful gross-out sensibility
he did to his 2009 feature Dead Snow. That one was about
long-dormant Nazi soldiers rising up as zombies. What fun! It was
a lark and a goof, just like Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
--Ted Fry
* The
disk has English subtitles.
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