Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Redbox Edition

Somebody once told me, you could tell within the first 5 minutes of a movie if it was for you or not. I don't quite know where that cut off was in the film, but judging from the opening scenes I would assume he was correct. Hansel and Gretel are forced into the woods, seemingly abandoned by their parents. They find the candy cottage and the rest of the story plays out like you remember. The witch captures them, and then they kill her. The actual movie and story are what happens after that, and mostly because of it. Seeing the little kids kill the witch elicits a very interesting reaction. You will either be turned off by the blood, and overall cheesiness of the scene. Or you will smile and turn your brain off for the next 90 minutes. I chose to do the later, and so should you.

 For $1.25 you get a movie very similar to Van Helsing, and about as poorly received. This movie suffers from a lot of the same issues as Van Helsing sadly. It is corny, poorly written, tends to go to far with CGI. But it also shares a lot of the same strengths. Good action, neat weapons and concepts, and lovely atmosphere. It also pulls off the Horror comedy role pretty decently. From Hansel having Diabetes from being force fed candy while younger, to the stalker superfan that just wants to be part of the team. The movie gets quite a few laughs, and kept me entertained for its duration.

If you are not a fan of blood, feel free to pass this one up. It is by no means a gory film, but it does have more then most films these days. Seeing witches cut into many different pieces flying at the screen for example. I bet that scene made good use of the 3D offered in theaters.

If you still are not convinced if this is a movie for you, Let me leave you with the best line from it. "I hate to break this to you, but this isn't gonna be an open casket." If that line doesn't do it for you, nothing else in this movie will.