We all know the story of Jack and the bean stalk or do we this film offers a creative twist on to the story and i like it, its a fun fantasy family for everyone including Grandma. Its a light hearted film with humour elements in it.
The synopsis
The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds.
The cast in this are fantastic with many great British actors and actresses including the lead Nicholas Hoult who delivers a great performance he is a believable underdog, Ian McShane is underused could have done with sing more but the character he was didn't suck you in to liking or caring for. Ewan McGregor is awesome but still feel he is playing a Jedi character his highlight has got to be his crazy hair style. The one character that caught my attention was Bill Nighy as he was the big bad giant he was just a voice actor which meant every time he spoke all i could picture was Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Bryan Singer is the director and as usual he can create an awesome and visual world. hat off to him for this film.
The world and lands that was created was fantastic the giants home land was lovely yet horrid at the same time, as soon as you exited the clouds to be greeted by a big head with water flowing through the mouth was such a nice touch and something i cant forget.
The giants are all unique and you could tell they had fun creating them by personalising them and their characteristics. The giants we see that have names are pretty cool and work quite nicely in to the story of jack very clever to name some Fee Fye Foe Fumm.
One of the things i didn't like was royalty wearing Gold plate armour. as a RPG gamer i find this lame and who wears it, its hideous and impractical surely they could have used something more practical after all they are fighting giants. If there is one person who shouldn't wear armour ever is Ian McShane he just looks weird and not kingly at all.
Overall the film held my attention and i wasn't bored always entertained even if some things stood out. i would recommend this film and i will be purchasing this for blu ray as it was gorgeous.
8 out of 10
thanks for reading
Dave
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