Yeah. I saw this movie. And you know what? It's pretty fun. This is what I mean by a movie not taking itself too seriously when the very premise of the movie is clearly not meant to be taken seriously. It's what turned me off so much with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. It took itself too seriously. We're talking about Hansel and Gretel. The classic fairy tale. And then we're going to have some fun with the idea.
It's fairly logical if you stop to think about it. If there is an evil witch, who is to say if there aren't more? If there were kids that went through this tramatic ordeal of being abandoned by their parents and nearly killed by a hungry witch, wouldn't they grow closer to each other and take out their anger on witches? If a kid were forced to eat so much candy, wouldn't he get diabetes or some other kind of health problem later in life? It's all logical in a very warped kind of way.
I don't want to get too much into spoilers but really there isn't much to spoil. The story is very linear and predictable. Any kind of plot twist is telegraphed and won't be much of a surprise. But unlike some other movies I can mention, they don't forshadow at all or just state things through exposition. So I'll take it. Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters is a better told story than Independence Day.
I won't go so far as to give this a glowing endorsement. It is a cheesy movie with some funny one liners and interesting gags (for example the holy hand grenades). However it is also a very forgetable movie. I couldn't remember most of what happened in the movie and it was only 100 minutes long. At best it's junk food comedy with a hilarious premise. Don't expect to get much more than a nice diversion out of it.
ps I'd really like to see Little Bo Peep Chupacabra Hunter.
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