A largely dull and unfunny B-grader.

Rating: 4/10 (8 February 2013)

Some movies are so bad they're good. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them. It had all the right ingredients to be a B-grade classic - catchy concept, cartoonish violence, top notch actors (Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton) in the tongue-in-cheek lead roles and, most enticingly, the man who made the awesome undead-Nazis horror-comedy Dod Sno calling the shots - yet somewhere along the line it squanders its potential with a messy plot, awful CGI and misfired gags. There's the occasional spot of guilty entertainment on offer, whether it's a troll squashing human heads like tomatoes or a petite lady unleashing hell with a machine gun that wouldn't look out of place on a battleship, however they are far and few between and can't hide the fact this is an under-performer. Director Tommy Wirkola has implied in interviews that the studio bosses made heavy cuts and he's insisted that his version will be much funnier and much gorier, but until we get to see that edition on DVD we're left with a dull and unfunny affair that isn't worth forking out your hard earned cash to see at the cinema.