Drags on, no surprises

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2004)

After the first 20 minutes of the movie you can pretty much tell how the rest of the movie is going to go. The giant was the worst special effects I have ever seen, especially the scene when he first meets Ewen MacGregor's character. The perspective was all wrong. First you see the cave entrance, and it looks just a bit taller than Ewen, so at that point you expect the giant to be crouching or crawling when he walks out of the cave. Instead, he's standing straight up, implying he's the same height as Ewen. But then in the following scenes he's much taller. It was very poorly done, and that set the tone for the rest of the movie. Ewan was wrongly cast for the part I think, as he was for Moulin Rouge as well. His smile is just too corny and his teeth aren't straight.