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I suppose opting for a title like Jack The Giant Slayer over Jack and the Bean Stalk, and giving it a PG-13 rating, indeed clarifies for audiences what kind of movie it is. It's certainly a modernized version of the "Jack and the Bean Stalk" story, and it maintains the period feel of the story while being given a unique spin. For example, because giants are mythical creatures--particularly in this context--they're created entirely using CGI here, and their appearance is made to look humanoid with earthy elements added to make them appear more fantastical. Furthermore, because Singer tries to give the story a unique look, some of the costumes, and even some of the language they use border on being anachronisms. When one of the giants dies while speaking the "F" word during the climax, it feels completely out of place and just included to either elicit a laugh or merely surprise the audience. Also, Jack's costume, as a farm boy, is made up of a leather jacket with a hood on it. It looks cool in the movie, but the chances of a farm boy in this era wearing something similar is rather unlikely (In some ways, this movie's approach can be compared to A Knight's Tale). Still, the very biggest problem Jack The Giant Slayer possesses is in the look of the titular giants. There isn't a moment in the movie when the giants don't look fake. Where movies like the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Transformers, or even as far back as Jurassic Park, offer photorealistic animation, the poorly rendered giants in Jack The Giant Slayer look cheesy and fake in every scene. It's almost as if the movie we're watching is some kind of unfinished product. To make matters worse, the opening storytelling animatic looks more like previsualization test animation and not completed animation. The animatic tells the story of mankind versus the giants as a legend, and it's not until the camera zooms in on one of the humans in the story that we see they're supposed to be wooden characters in a deliberately stylized fairytale telling. Still, such storytelling has been done exquisitely better before, making this look sophomoric at best.
It's all so very unfortunate because, if you can look past the cheesy animation, Jack The Giant Slayer is a really fun action/adventure movie. Everyone in the cast turns in solid performances, with Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class) being great as the lead, while Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci are great supports for the cast. Eleanor Tomlinson is lovely as Isabelle, the feisty princess in distress. Also, Singer utilizes some real, tangible set pieces, like parts of the bean stalk and portions of the king's castle and giants' lair, that make the story easier to grasp. There's a great set piece where McGregor's Elmont is being prepared by a cook in the kitchen (while Isabelle is in a nearby cage) that is amusing and fun to watch unfold. It's just a shame that Singer's approach to the sets and giants are uneven in quality.
The content for Jack The Giant Slayer is intense at times. While it can be pretty violent, it's seldom graphic. However, it's implied that a man's head and arms are bitten off when a giant picks him up and brings him to his mouth. I'd read that this movie was a little more gory than it seemed to be, which makes me wonder if they decided to tone some of the blood and such down for the Blu-Ray release (but it's possible I missed some of the more graphic details somehow?). Other moments show giants smacking people unconscious or swatting them with weapons, tossing them into the air. One giant spits out a man's armor after eating him whole, and in another shot we see the bones of one of its victims inside the stomach of a giant as the camera zooms down its throat into its belly. This is kind of a spoiler, but it's also the most graphic moment of the movie; a stalk grows out of a giant near the climax of the movie and we see it sprout out of the giant's neck, body and face. And, at one point, it says a semi-interrupted "Oh, f---" (most of the word is said though) before their head explodes and an eyeball flies at the screen. We then see the hand hit the ground and one of its fingers lay dismembered. It's the most gruesome moment in the movie, but most of the other scenes are pretty intense or would be potentially frightening to younger viewers. There's a little bit of other language in the movie, but it's mostly the usage of the word "h*ll."
Overall, I liked Jack The Giant Slayer far more than I expected to. I had to force myself to forgive the lame animation of the giants to fully enjoy the film. It's a flawed and imperfect movie for sure, but fans of fairytales, fantasy stories like "Jack and the Bean Stalk" and any of the cast are likely to find some things about Jack The Giant Slayer to really enjoy.
Become A Giant Slayer - To be honest, this is a pretty cheesy way to present the making-of footage, but it's one of the more unique presentations of such content I've seen to date. Nick Hoult serves as your host for an interactive featurette that has you climbing the bean stalk with your Blu-Ray remote and choosing short videos along the way. Apparently choosing the wrong directions or hitting the wrong buttons can make you start the climb all over again, but it serves as a "Choose your own adventure" kind of featurette where you have to navigate the bean stalk more deliberately than a typical list of making-of featurettes. The first video when you start your climb is dedicated to the design of the giants. It's interesting to hear their train of thought for the intent behind the details in the monsters. The next is devoted to the costumes of the characters. At that point, the stalk splits and you can choose left or right. I chose right, and the first featurette is about the stalk itself, showing on-set footage of the real sets they built, as well as the CG portions of it. The next one is called "How To Zip" and Hoult introduces a behind-the-scenes look at his zip-lining moment in the movie. At that point, we, the viewer, "zip-line" back to the other stalk and resume watching featurettes there, but we miss a couple of the videos in the process. I continued upward and watched a making-of video about the kitchen scene (It was interesting to hear Singer say they made up the whole sequence on the spot). We then need to "dodge" a falling boulder and "win" the challenge. We're then shown a video about how to "defend" our kingdom which leads to our "reward" for going through the experience. This video ends up being an alternate opening of the movie. It shows alternate animation of the story at the beginning of the movie, and then it shows little Jack talking to, not only his father but both of his parents this time. We then see a short scene of Jack dealing with the loss of his parents to the plague before it cuts to the scene with older Jack as it is in the movie. In the climbing of the stalk, you miss 2 of the videos, so when you go back down, you can see a video about Jack's journey through the movie. Then there's one last that one you need to restart the featurette to get to (which is kind of odd) and it's about fighting the giants. The videos are great; I just wish there was a way to watch them without having to go through the stalk map.
Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is a farm boy who is tasked to sell the horse by his uncle. Instead, he trusts a monk to exchange for magic beans. The monk tried to smuggle the beans from the evil Roderick (Stanley Tucci). With the beans, Roderick hoped to get to the land of the giants. With the magical crown already in hand, he hoped to rule the giants and the world.Stanley Tucci isn't necessarily the best choice for the villain, and Ewen Bremner is too over the top as the weasel henchman. Nicholas Hoult is a good actor for the lead. Eleanor Tomlinson is just as good as the plucky princess. Ewan McGregor doesn't quite fit as the king's best knight.The giants are what this movie is about, and are quite grotesque man eaters. That's the whole appeal of this movie. It's a disturbing sight to behold. Not actually seeing them bite people's heads off is interestingly more disturbing. The story could have gotten to the giants a bit sooner. Facing the giants is the best part of the movie especially if they're going to eat you. The battle is compelling but I need more people eating. 2ff7e9595c
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