Better Than Fair(y)

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2013)

Let me say right here that the damning reviews for this are solid evidence for why I gave up on critics years ago. This is NOTHING MORE than campy, surreal, visually-entertaining fun, and it offends me how big-name reviewers both attack its lack of dimension (?) and get things wrong, to boot. Time's Corliss, for example, notes that Edward the Troll saves Gretel because he is impelled to pity humans. Uh..no. Listen to his line, for God's sake. That arch-hack Rex Reed refers several times to multiple gang rapes. As someone who won't go near a film with a rape in it, I can safely assert that he is very off-base. Nothing new there. I will concede one point: wittier dialogue would have been very welcome. Nonetheless. This is precisely as fun in a moderate way as you have the right to expect it to be. And please ignore critics who seem to think pointing out the incongruity of high-tech weapons in Feudal settings indicates how clever they are.