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Jan 27, 2013
75
Wirkola tears through Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun.
Apr 3, 2018
58
Unfortunately, Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel & Gretel is just another entry in Bland Fairy Tale Theater, a shapeless riff on those hapless German siblings with the worst parents ever.
Jan 28, 2013
50
The blend of fairy-tale sentiment and knowing irony worked exactly once, in "The Princess Bride," and fails here. But there's enough visual ingenuity - eye candy, if you will - to make this Hansel & Gretel an intermittently tasty temptation.
Jan 25, 2013
42
An intermittently fun, but overexcited and predictable mish-mash.
Jan 25, 2013
42
The grim heroes don't have a nuance or more than a hint of emotion between them, and the same goes for the film around them.
Jan 25, 2013
40
The film is smart enough not to wear out its welcome. But that's the only sign of true intelligence in this juvenile caper.
Jan 25, 2013
40
While the film rarely provokes any strenuous eye-rolling, it also can't drum up even the slightest interest in the fate of its characters, let alone suspense.
Jan 25, 2013
40
Even if he's slumming, Renner gets it best: his dry delivery fully acknowledges the movie's ridiculousness. If you're planning on entering this fractured fairy tale, you'll want to follow his lead.
Feb 9, 2013
40
Though it gives good splat and the scenery’s to die for, Hansel & Gretel gets just about everything wrong. Hammy, boring, chronically unfunny - there’ll be nightmares before bedtime.
Jan 30, 2013
38
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is more Gatling guns and grenades than The Brothers Grimm.
