Jack The Giant Slayer Trailer (2013)

Cast: Bill Nighy, Ian McShane, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson

Description: "Jack the Giant Slayer" tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult) into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend - and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

Release Date: 3/1/2013

Genre: Action-Adventure

Studio: New Line Cinema

Offical Website: http://www.jackthegiantslayer.com

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	3/1/2013
United Kingdom	Theatrical Wide Release	3/22/2013
Germany	Theatrical Wide Release	3/14/2013

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03/19 @ 12:00 AM

A mash-up of old-school heroism, pantomime villainy, starstruck lovers and post-'Shrek' archness, it's more exhausting than exhilarating.

Nigel Floyd, Time Out

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03/04 @ 12:00 AM

It's fast, rousing, and blessedly brief - under two hours instead of, say, nine in three bladder-straining installments.

David Edelstein, Vulture

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03/01 @ 12:00 AM

While it's fine for a director to explore his childhood inspirations, you hope he would bring something a bit more personal to it.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

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02/28 @ 12:00 AM

What's the point of making a movie with a 9-year-old boy's sensibility, then including just enough violence to garner a PG-13 rating?

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

Jack's problem is that he's a commoner, but the movie's problem is that its script is commoner still, an enchantment-free pretext for animated action, straight-ahead storytelling and ersatz romance.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Jack the Giant Slayer is the kind of old-fashioned, entertaining fantasy-adventure you once saw regularly in theaters.

Rafer Guzman, Newsday

There's more to this Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation than Fee-fi-fo-fum.

Claudia Puig, USA Today

It feels like a film made by a committee, for a demographic rather than an audience. It's a tale full of sound and fury (and flying bodies) signifying nothing.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

This finally is just a digitally souped-up, one-dimensional take on Jack and the Beanstalk, capped by the kind of interminable blowout that makes many big-studio entertainments feel as long as the last Oscars.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

At its heart, the film is just a simple fairy tale, an epic reduced to an engaging adventure of a bedtime story.

Ian Buckwalter, NPR

This digitally tricked-out fairy tale makes for a reasonably engaging kids' fantasy, but at best we're talking about a junior varsity Lord of the Rings.

Kyle Smith, New York Post

This grotesque world is imaginatively, magically rendered with heavy stone architecture and a dreary lack of adornment. It's such an intriguing place that you wouldn't mind staying a bit longer.

Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

Big and loud and so bland it kinda feels like we've been sold a bill of goods.

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

Jack the Giant Slayer proves the axiom If you can't make it good, make it 3D.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The director, Bryan Singer, works more anonymously here than he did in the X-Men films. Jack the Giant Slayer feels like it could have been made by anyone.

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

If you thought the tale ended when Jack clambered back down from the skies, then you haven't given it as much thought as Singer.

Tom Russo, Boston Globe

It's stuck in a big-budget-movie middle ground - not quite thrilling enough to be an action movie, not quite funny enough for a comedy - and, once you've pondered the impressive size of the beanstalk, there's not much else there.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

By the time the giants have descended the beanstalk and laid siege to the king's castle, and the boiling oil comes out with the flaming arrows and the flying flaming trees, it's like: Enough already.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

The action is a little too intense for very young children. But for everyone else, including cynical grown-up critics who didn't think they'd ever give a Fee, a Fi, a Fo or a Fum about this movie, it's a terrific adventure.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

Singer's take on ye olde yarne has wit about it, and it certainly looks good.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

There may never have been a Jack tale that delivered so little pleasure for so many dollars as what we have here.

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times