Jack The Giant Slayer
I was a little wary about going to see this, but as this was a family outing I lowered my expectations as the movie began. I read up about it before I saw it. It scored 53% on Rotten Tomatoes this afternoon. After having seen it I think that's probably fair.
In a movie like this CGI is always going to be dominant. The effect were all serviceable without being "wow that was cool".
The story line was a little bit all over the place. I didn't mind the concept as it was presented but the execution let it down. If you are goign to make even a semi-serious movie, leave out the booger jokes and fart jokes. Please.
Ewan McGregor was probably the best of the actors. I also liked Stanley Tucci as Roderick. I think some reviews compared him to Humperdink in The Princess Bride.He reminded me more of Hans Gruber from Die Hard (though he is certainly no Alan Rickman).
When I stopped thinking about it, I could enjoy the movie. Perhaps what helped is that we had a family dinner at Hogs Breath and shared a dessert at the Coco Lounge before the movie.
No comments:
Post a Comment