Jack the Giant Slayer had all the right pieces for a really great fantasy adventure.
The best part about Jack the Giant Slayer is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the giants themselves.
Like Snow White and the Huntsman, I really wanted to like Jack the Giant Slayer.
He kills three giants in the movie, and yet he never really seems like a giant slayer.
Jack the Giant Slayer has a lot of great action, but ultimately fails to be either heroic or magical.
Take Jack himself (Nicholas Hoult, who I loved in the much better film, Warm Bodies) the titular giant slayer.
Jack the Giant Slayer has had mixed reviews so far, with recommendations from 52% of reviewers on aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.
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Time Warner said "Gangster Squad" and "Jack the Giant Slayer" fell short of expectations in theaters and the company had fewer TV shows available for licensing abroad.
They had a rough first quarter, with films bad (Bullet to the Head), allegedly halfway decent (Jack the Giant Slayer) and unexpectedly great (Beautiful Creatures) bombing pretty hard.
"Jack the Giant Slayer" is slight, but consistently amusing.
As I wrote a few months ago elsewhere, one of the big differences between Jack the Giant Slayer and Oz: The Great and Powerful was that the latter Disney concoction had actual movie stars.
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They get adults interested in the film, give it a degree of respectability, and offer the ability to promote a given film across a variety of media outlets (magazine covers, talk show interviews, etc.) that the likes of the admittedly talented Nicholas Hoult from Jack the Giant Slayer does not.
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Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.
It's reassuring to know that Chicago-based U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who has a voracious appetite for rooting out political corruption and must see his city and the rest of Illinois as one giant buffet, is living up to his reputation as a tough and independent Goliath slayer who doesn't hesitate to take on the powerful.
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