Hansel & Gretel (2012)

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Hansel & Gretel is a 2012 American 2D hand drawn-animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale of the same name in the collection of folk tales published by the Brothers Grimm.

Featuring an ensemble of voice casting such as Max Charles, Elsie Fisher, Ashley Gerasimovich, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meryl Streep.

The film tells the story of two siblings named Hansel & Gretel, and their new friend Frieda (the new girl they meet and later Hansel's girlfriend). One day, they get lost in the dark woods, due to a man named "Rainer" just leaving them out there, without them knowing. One morning, Hansel, Gretel & Frieda stumbled across a gingerbread-house inhabited by a kind lady named Brigitte, and her small & enchanted gingerbread men. She welcomes them to her house, and due to the kids hungers, they get to eat the sweet stuff they were given. However, when Rainer finds out that they are alive and that they found a safe place, he tries his best to make sure Hansel, Gretel & Frieda doesn't come home.

The film's songs is once again done by Alan Menken and the film score is also once again composed by Michael Giacchino, whom both worked on the score & songs for Red Riding Hood the year before.

Hansel & Gretel premiered on October 5, 2012. The film was well received by critics and audiences alike. The film grossed $5.006.2 billion in worldwide box office revenue, including the $1.241 billion domestic gross and the $3.765 billion overseas gross. It also broke the October opening weekend record of $314M, beating the previous record of $278M by Disney's own "The Nightingale" four years ago. It is the highest grossing film of 2012, beating the summer superhero-film "The Avengers".

TV-Tropes:

General tropes

*Children Voicing Children*: Every kid character in the movie are voiced by kid actors & actresses.

*The Kids Are American*: All of the adults (Hansel & Gretel’s parents (Hilda & Emmerich), Rainer, Brigitte, Frieda’s parents, etc) have German/Austrian accents, but all the kids (Hansel, Gretel, Frieda & the boy group, led by Hansel himself, etc) have American accents. Word of God is that this was intentional to make the younger generation more relatable to the western (read: American) audience.

Tropes regarding Hansel:

*Big Brother Instinct*: Justified since he’s one year older than his sister, Gretel. Whenever Gretel or any other kid feels sad or is in a certain danger, Hansel will always be there for his little sister and the other kids. That makes him the more mature & protective sibling. He also comforts his friend, Frieda (his girlfriend/love interest) when she gets lost in the forest with the siblings as well.

*The Leader*: Of his company that consists of other boys, since he's the oldest at 9 years old.

Tropes regarding Gretel:

Action Girl: As much as she is the youngest in her family and the younger sister of Hansel, she is an expert in hand-to-hand combat, either using her fists or blunt weapons. It

*All-Loving Heroine*: Justified.

*Beware The Nice Ones*: She’s generally a nice and sweet girl like all kids. But mess with her or any of her friends and family, whether it be someone she really likes and cares for, she will not hesitate to fight back.

*Cheerful Child*: The most joyful, happy-go-lucky and innocent of all the kid characters. Justified, as she's the younger sister of Hansel.

*Curb Stomp Battle*: Done comedically in one scene where Gretel single handedly defeats bunch of adult men (Rainier’s men). It comes off as a surprise for Hansel, Frieda and the other kids, who didn't expect her to put up a fight considering she is Hansel’s little sister.

*The Cutie*: Both she and Frieda are adorable girls, but Gretel’s considered the cutest one.

*Kid-Appeal Character*: She’s among the characters that kids love and young girls can even relate themselves to her, since Gretel herself is a young girl.

Tropes regarding Frieda:

*Canon Foreigner*: In this Disney version, she serves as the other young girl character, besides Gretel. Frieda is added to be the love interest for Hansel, similarly to how Leon from the previous Disney animated film “Red Riding Hood” was added as the love interest of Roux (the main female protagonist).

*Cheerful Child*: She’s a very kind and friendly soul to everyone new she meets in the village. She doesn’t like villains though like Rainer.

Tropes regarding Rainier:

Big Bad: He is the main villain of the movie. And the fact that the village kids really don’t like him so much, proves the point.

Classic Villain: Mainly

Evil Laugh:

*Greed*: One of his main

*Karmic Death*: Ends up falling to his fiery death when

*Large Ham*: Rainier knows to have the time of his life when he wants to. He’s pretty charismatic and smart as well. It also helps that Christoph Waltz gives an amazing and well-acted voice performance as the antagonist.

*Manipulative Bastard*: He finds his mark's motivation and uses it to make money.

Manly Facial Hair: A

Obviously Evil: C

Villainous Breakdown: Although

Would Hit a Girl: Hits Gretel & Frieda

Related in the Adaptation: Hilda is definitely this to her children in this Disney version. In the original tale, the mother was actually a stepmother to the kids, and didn’t show much love and sympathy towards them. Here, Hilda IS the biological mother of Hansel & Gretel and is far more loving & compassionate towards her children.

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