Pretty entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2013)

Interesting variation on the old fairy tale. Offspring of a grand good witch and a human Hansel and Gretel are grown ups now and hunt witches for money. They end up returning to their home town. It is under attack by witches stealing the 12 children that are needed for a grand blood moon rite that would make witches immune to fire. The witches also need the heart of a grand white witch which just happens to reside in Gretel. The weapons they dreamed up for this movie were very interesting, from repeating crossbows, rifles (I guess), to a machine gun at the end. Hansel hooks up with a white witch and she is very instrumental in eventually wiping out all the witches that have come from all over the world to be in the rite. Alas she dies. The troll, Edward, is saved by Gretel and helps free the children, kill some witches, and generally help out. He then joins the witch slaying gang after all the attending witches have been eliminated as they continue to hunt the surviving witches. Some humor, a lot of gore, a nice pool scene, all in all watchable.