The story: Hansel and Gretel, after escaping from a witch when they were children, have grown up to become kick a** witch hunteres! They come to a town where children have gone missing and learn a powerful witch is taking them for a ritual that will make her immune to fire. Hansel and Gretel try to save the children and defeat the witch, while learning things about their past.
Was it good?
Yes! Which surprised me. It is such a silly, goofy idea, but here's the thing -- the filmmaker seemed to understand that and embraced it. Instead of doing something grounded and dark, he made something vibrant and fun. Hansel and Gretel aren't just witch hunters, they are witch hunters with a bunch of cool a** steam-punk inspired weapons. The plot, while not inspired, does a good enough job to keep things interesting. This isn't a deep, brain teaser of a movie -- it's popcorn for action/horror buffs. My biggest complaint is that the movies seems divided whether it wants to be rated R or PG-13 (it's rated R). Some times it would embrace the R-rated sexy/violence and other times it seemed to pull back from it. Hopefully in the sequel (it was a big hit so I assume there will be one) they will embrace the R-nature and really give us a sexy, crazy action movie for adults who like to be giddy kids!
*** RECOMMEND ****
