The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera Hänsel und Gretel (1893) by Engelbert Humperdinck. It also includes an episode of type 1121 ('Burning the Witch in Her Own Oven'). "Hansel and Gretel" is a tale of Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 327A. The two children then escape with their lives and return home with the witch's treasure. The cannibalistic witch intends to fatten Hansel before eventually eating him, but Gretel pushes the witch in her own oven and kills her. Hansel and Gretel are a brother and sister abandoned in a forest, where they fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread, cake, and candy. It is also known as Hansel and Gretel, or Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister. ˈ ɡ r ɛ t əl/ German: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 15). " Hansel and Gretel" ( / ˈ h æ n s əl, ˈ h ɛ n- . Kinder- und Hausmärchen, by the Brothers Grimm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters doesn't give a shit.The witch welcomes Hansel and Gretel into her hut. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters doesn't care. You can call it crazy or nasty or stupid. In the end, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is the honey badger of movies. While some didn't care for these sibling's blasé attitude about slaying witches, I found their smugness funny and fitting for the film. A sequence involving a sprawling coven made me wish I could pause to take in all the cool, creative and creepy character designs.ġ0. They have immense strength, run like werewolves, and have looks that are the stuff of nightmares. Similarly, the other witches seemed wildly deadly. Famke Janssen is clearly having a blast playing the seductive and deeply evil Muriel, who can shape shift from a beautiful woman to a cracked and wretched crone with ease. While that fantasy feature has a lot in common with Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters-down to much of the plot-I was most thrilled to see Stormare with ridiculous facial hair and an audacious accent to match playing the thorn in the side of the film's witch hunters.ĩ. Most times repeating a performance might be a bad thing, but Stormare's manic and power-hungry villain Cavaldi was my favorite part of Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm. (Looking at you, Snow White and the Huntsman.)Ĩ. It was thrilling to see a fairy tale heroine actually get to kick some ass. In one scene, she's ambushed by a bunch of local men, and the blows come hard and fast with no punches pulled. She not only has a deadly aim with her crossbow, but also is treated like an equal to the male characters. Played by Gemma Arterton, Gretel is a powerful warrior. Here Hansel gets pounded by super-powered witches and battered by trees, and Renner makes it as hilarious as it is cringe-inducing.ħ. Still, few actors are as fun to watch engaging in action scenes where they take hard hits. I count myself as a big Renner fan, and recognize he's probably less than thrilled that this movie has followed The Avengers, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Bourne Legacy. Also, his insulin works like spinach does to Popeye. It's sort of his kryptonite, and its use as a plot point is both absurd and hilarious. For instance, there's a scene as seen in the trailer where Hansel positions an admirer to block him from incoming viscera as a hunter explodes, keeping this witch hunter clean.ĥ. If you've seen Wirkola's Nazi-zombie movie Dead Snow, you probably expected nothing less. With steampunk-inspired weapons and grimly spun traps, Hansel and Gretel tear into witches in a way that seems out of exploitation movies and anime. There's been plenty of bloodshed in the movies of January 2013, but none has been so entertaining as this. Sure it's silly and there are some issues with the second act, but there are some things that make it totally worth the price of admission. But the more I thought about Hansel & Gretel, the more its poor reputation bothered me. It was fun and a satisfying night out at the movies. When the lights came up, three of the four of us confessed we enjoyed the flick for its wild and weird sensibilities. But hey, Jeremy Renner and R-rated action, how bad could it be? The answer was pretty bad, but also a bit brilliant. Our theater was far from packed, and we all agreed our expectations were low after the release's repeated delays and the bad reviews our colleagues had posted. This is why fellow bloggers/critics, Rudie Obias, Angie Han and Perri Nemiroff and I braved the insanely cold temperatures Friday to see the movie on its opening night. Paramount Pictures seems to have suspected critics by and large wouldn't care for Norwegian writer-director Tommy Wirkola's English-language debut, as press screenings for the film were notoriously hard to come by.
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