I didn't hate it, but it's pretty forgettable.

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2013)

In 2009, Quentin Tarantino spiced up the holocaust with Inglourious Basterds. Last year, they tried spicing up Abraham Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and it didn't work. Now they are turning Hansel and Gretel into witch hunters in, you guessed it, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. It's a step up from Abe Lincoln, which I thought was a big letdown because I loved the book. But this movie suffers from nearly everything that that movie did.
It's amazing that they got talents like Famke Janssen(What?), Peter Stormare (WHAT?), Gemma Arterton (WHAT?!), and Jeremy Renner (WTF!!!)in this contraption. I'm disappointed that all of you stooped to this low of a level. Not just you four but the rest of America, because you gave it money. For everyone, it is just a quest for cash. Renner is bored, hence why he is even here in the first place.
Perhaps in the hands of someone like Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton this might have worked. H&G is a movie that is trying to be other movies but it just isn't. There's nothing memorably funny about this, or anything memorable at all for that matter.
It's sort of interesting but I really couldn't help but scratch my head. 80 minutes feels like two hours. The acting is somewhat bland, and nobody gets anything to work with here. I guarantee that the thought process of this movie involved a guy playing a video game for a few hours. Because that is what watching this feels like. All this thing needs is a better script to get this cooking. Oh well, maybe in the sequel.
C