Now, Bryan Singer has thrown his Bad Hat Harry Productions into the ring, grinding elements of Arthurian, Viking and other popular versions of the ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ (the film’s original title) and ‘Jack And The Beanstalk’ tales into a galumphing 3D adventure, which eschews cynical, samizdat demographic engineering in favour of rollicking adventure. Aim light-ish, as in Mirror Mirror and Oz The Great And Powerful, and you might entice the Alice In Wonderland crowd go toward the dark side (Snow White & The Huntsman, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), and you might just get the Twihards. Once upon a time, Hollywood decided that Greek myths and Grimm folk tales, being out of copyright and widely known, would make ideal source material for big-budget films, full of heroic teens and 3D razzle-dazzle.
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