Worse, perhaps, this low quality, nasty movie comes with a very strong occult worldview where white witches battle evil witches. The movie opens with a father taking young Hansel and Gretel into the woods. Hansel and Gretel come across a candy house, are lured inside, and wind up fighting their first witch. As the opening credits start to roll, their childhood exploits as witch hunters are extolled. Cut to Hansel and Gretel as adults. They are being hired to find and return some children kidnapped by evil witches for nefarious purposes.
First photos from the set of ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’
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Sign in. Watch now. The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds. A young fugitive Prince and Princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time. Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world. Perseus demigod, son of Zeus, battles the minions of the underworld to stop them from conquering heaven and earth. In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters —a new action film presented in IMAX 3D that is very loosely based on the famous German fairy tale —delivers surprisingly profound commentary on the epidemic of diabetes. Hansel, played by Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner , is now a full-grown adult who tortures and mass-murders sadistic Wiccans for money and justice in the 19th century. At one point early in the movie, he sits down to chat with an attractive young village woman. Suddenly, he rips a stout syringe out of his pocket and plunges it into his skin. The witch-killing protagonist informs the villager that when he was a child a witch force-fed him vast quantities of evil candy.
A There would be witches. B Hansel and Gretel would hunt them. And D I would emerge from the movie theater with the mixed feeling of annoyance at what I assumed would be its sexist, misogynistic subject matter and of satisfaction Jeremy Renner stars as Hansel, and where Hawkeye goes, I follow. It was never going to be perfect.