Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

[bookblather]

WELL THAT WAS HILARIOUSLY TERRIBLE

Comments

[meganbmoore]

I thought the trailers looked completely horrible and misogynistic, and everything I've heard about it (and most comments I've read have been by people who liked it-largely people who also hated SWATH, which I liked a lot) convinced me that was the case. And while I like Gemma and Famke a lot (and will likely eventually watch it for them and because I like more fairytale movies than not, and I'll be perfectly happy to be proven wrong if that ends up being the case) I found Renner completely forgettable in Thor, and only a little better in The Avengers, and it was pretty clearly his show. (One day, I will manage to be gaga over the same actor as the rest of fandom. Or, for that matter, care about the fandom that's the latest darling

[bookblather]

You were not wrong. Just. What the fuck, movie-makers. Gemma and Famke were great, Famke especially-- she had a lot more scope for room, I think, because she wasn't constrained as much by having to be a heroine and yet do some fairly awful things. I think that Gemma and Renner played off each other brilliantly but didn't have a whole lot of scope when not acting opposite each other, and I think that Gemma dealt heroically with a pretty shitty script.

The show is... actually more Gemma's than Renner's, I think, or at least story-wise Gretel is more important. However, Renner does more of the acting; Gemma was more passive due to, again, a shitty script.

But yeah. I don't recommend it at all. There's maybe six amusing scenes (all involving both Gemma and Renner) and the rest is just gross.

eta: Wait, I tell a lie, Famke is genuinely scary a couple of times.