The fairytale reboot is one of Hollywood's newest and most unwelcome inventions: children's tales ramped up and complicated with added PG action and lite sexiness, and mostly with their charm and psychological insight stripped out. The recent Hansel and Gretel reimagining was about as pleasurable as adult chicken pox. But I have to admit that against the odds, this new version of the panto fave Jack and the Beanstalk is watchable in a ridiculous way, and director Bryan Singer supplies quite a bit of entertainment bang for your buck.
Nicholas Hoult is Jack, now a young-adult hottie rather than a mere lad, and what he has to sell is a horse, rather than an undignified cow. The five beans he gets create a beanstalk that leads to a mysterious land of giants. The sinister and treacherous Prince Roderick (Stanley Tucci) plans to get up there and subdue them with a magic ring, and use these colossal brutes as a private army to impose tyranny back in Olde Albion, and thus betray good King Brahmwell (Ian McShane), his trusty courtier Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and the lovely Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), with whom Jack naturally falls in love. It's very different from, say, Terry Gilliam's magic-beans riff in The Brothers Grimm (2005), which glanced at the darker subtext. Bryan Singer isn't interested in any psychological Bruno Bettelheim stuff; anyway, it's boisterously silly and enjoyable. Source:-http://www.guardian.co.uk
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