Billy Nighy, StanelyTucci and Eleanor Tomlinson are also stars in the film.

The stars of the epic films are Evan McGregor, Ian McShane, and Nicholas Hoult. The director of the film is Bryan Singer and the screenplay is by Christopher McQuarrie, Darren Lemke and Dan Studney. This adventure film based on fables “Jack the Bean stalker” and “Jack the Giant killer “. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Jack the Giant Slayer is an adventure film of 2013 previously named Jack the Giant Killer. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Kenneth Turan reviews movies for MORNING EDITION and the Los Angeles Times.Ĭopyright © 2013 NPR. I can't speak for giants, but if any human being had even a moment of personal passion about this project, the evidence is not on the screen. Its unsurprising, cobbled-together script has all the earmarks of being a Hollywood assignment, an exercise in the arbitrary with no organic reason for being. TURAN: These behemoths are so big they throw burning trees around when they don't get what they want. TURAN: 'Jack the Giant Slayer' does have all the things money can buy, including a hoard of computer generated giants. Jack joins an expedition up the vine to save her. It propels the princess up to an island in the sky, where a race of cranky giants has been thirsting for payback against humanity for past misdeeds. TURAN: Jack somehow ends up with a bag of magic beans, and when one of them gets loose, a gargantuan stalk results. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, 'JACK THE GIANT SLAYER') Two young people, a pauper named Jack and an adventurous princess named Isabelle, meet when he saves her from the medieval version of sexual harassment. 'Jack the Giant Slayer' is set in the made-up kingdom of Cloister. Jack's been through the Hollywood shuffle before, but there's never been a Jack tale that delivered so little pleasure for so many dollars. There he was minding his own business in some dusty fairytale book when he was dragooned into active service as the front man for a would-be blockbuster. The story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' has been filmed by people as diverse as Gene Kelly, Chuck Jones and the Three Stooges.

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