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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 119
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 102

Alternately bloody and silly, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters fails as both a fantasy adventure and as a parody of same.

5

Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 19

Alternately bloody and silly, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters fails as both a fantasy adventure and as a parody of same.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 60,835

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After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches...their past. -- (C) Paramount

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Action & Adventure, Comedy

D.W. Harper, Tommy Wirkola, Dante Harper

Jun 11, 2013

$55.7M

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All Critics (119) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (102)

If this long-delayed and blatantly pandering CGI malarkey is anything to go by, Hollywood's current craze for fairy tales isn't going to have a happy ending.

February 5, 2013 Full Review Source: CNN.com
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There isn't much to this beyond the poorly staged, rapidly edited violence; the witches, all but devoid of backstory, are basically canvasses for cartoon splatter.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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The movie settles for showers of gore with intermittent moments of spoofiness.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
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The whole kidding trope, which you can bet was ordered by McKay and Ferrell, is pretty lame, and defeats the leads' attempts to bring shadings to cardboard cartoon characters.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
TIME Magazine
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At least it puts forth a sound message: Kids, avoid overdoing it on sweets -- especially candy that doubles as drywall.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: USA Today
USA Today
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It's a grim fairy tale, all right.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
Time Out New York
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Imagine the elaborate plan: 'We use the sets left over from Red Riding Hood, add a candy house, throw in some aerial forest shots out of Twilight, keep it cheap. Steampunk it up, and have 'em wear leather, 'specially her. Lotsa cleavage.'

May 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Nothing more than Dario Argento dialed down for fourteen-year-olds.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: East Bay Express
East Bay Express

It's an amusingly cheeky notion: the siblings from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale as witch-slaying bounty hunters. A defter hand than Wirkola's might have succeeded ... but the film's anachronisms are clumsy and most of the jokes fall flat.

March 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

Dangerously ignorant and inaccurate on the subject of diabetes, Hansel and Gretel should be disregarded at all costs, and the filmmakers really ashamed they put something so irresponsible on the big screen.

March 13, 2013 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire
Fan The Fire

...feels like a coven of people in offices visited the set, were shown the mocked-up candy house and then decided to gut the whole thing and make it safe for theatrical and television sales to other countries where there's lots of censorship.

March 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Movies.com
Movies.com

Let's not mince words: Hansel and Gretel is not a good movie.

March 7, 2013 Full Review Source: The Skinny
The Skinny

The gore is a bore and the sweary script just isn't funny.

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Scotsman

One suspects that, seriously or tongue in cheek, it's really about the "war against terror" and that Hansel and Gretel are the CIA and the witches belong to al-Qaida.

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

What will Terra Firma's new overlords think of us if, by some freak set of circumstances, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is all that remains of our once proud hominid civilisation?

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: The Ooh Tray
The Ooh Tray

There's no reason in the world for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters not to be good, clean, trashy fun. But it isn't.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Irish Times
Irish Times

Made in Germany, this raucous adventure merrily refuses to follow the usual Hollywood route of blanding-down a fairy tale for the lowest common denominator (see both Snow White movies last year).

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.com

[A] fast and furious all-action continuation of the classic fairy tale ...

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: Radio Times
Radio Times

It's an appalling, insulting and cynical mess from start to finish.

March 1, 2013 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

The picture moves fast and is an efficient enough action-horror, with good effects and plenty of violence, but it's too machine-tooled and perfunctory to make you care.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Express
Daily Express

It ends up looking like a witless, cheesy knock-off of the Underworld and Resident Evil movies. They weren't good, and this is worse.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK]
Daily Mail [UK]

Somewhere in here is a good movie. I guess it got lost in the woods.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Sun Online
Sun Online

Bereft of engaging characters or dialogue, it lurches from one blood-splattered action sequence to the next, even threatening viewers with a sequel at the end.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Digital Spy
Digital Spy

It's a film which is so demeaningly bad, so utterly without merit, that there is a kind of purity in its awfulness.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

It takes a fairy tale and plays it for laughs, without being remotely funny.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph

Dismal action/adventure fantasy that consists of nothing more than a series of badly directed fight sequences and fails to engage on every conceivable level, thanks to poor direction, lacklustre performances and a badly written, frequently idiotic script.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

Audience Reviews for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Tommy Wirkola's Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters both amuses and disappoints.For a film about witch hunting, there is seemingly enough story to create an all out bloody killing spree; however, the 90 minutes of screen time is only partially that. When it comes down to it, most of the characters are pretty stale and the storytelling, while quickly-paced, is a letdown.Most movies of this caliber usually make up for the lack of substance with a plethora of violence and action. Unfortunately, this film doesn't do that. It does have it's share of R-rated violent material. There is no argument there. There just isn't enough to push this picture over mediocrity.Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton are passable witch hunters, but Famke Janssen takes the crown in this one as the grand witch. Peter Stormare is a complete waste in this one.For what it is, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a good one time viewing.
February 10, 2013
skactopus
JY Skacto

Super Reviewer

Another spin on the fairy tale, since Snow White and the Huntsman, about Hansel & Gretel become bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world.
This is not a quality film, but pretty entertained and has fun with it. There was an incredible amount of gore in this movie; but I suppose that itself was a joke, given the premise of the movie. Their other jokes relied on anachronisms (weapons, fanboys, crime investigations). But they were careful enough that the anachronisms were funny in the context of the world-building instead of being glaring anomalies.
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton are unquestionable bad-ass! They fit the titular roles very well. The CG and production design were quite good and imaginative.
March 22, 2011
deano
Dean McKenna

Super Reviewer

    1. Muriel: You've finally found your way home!
    – Submitted by Cody F (3 months ago)
    1. Berringer: I'm not going to have you telling me what to do!
    2. Gretel: [headbutts Sheriff Berringer hard]
    – Submitted by Cody F (3 months ago)
    1. Gretel: Who am I kidding? We do this shit for free!
    – Submitted by Cody F (3 months ago)
    1. Hansel: One thing this job has taught me over the years: DON'T EAT THE FUCKING CANDY!
    – Submitted by Cody F (3 months ago)
    1. Hansel: We kill witches! What do you do?
    – Submitted by Cody F (3 months ago)
    1. Hansel: Most people will say witches aren't real, it's stuff of fairy tales. Then, one day, they show up at your door and eat your kids. That's where we come in!
    – Submitted by Cody F (3 months ago)

Discussion Forum

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Foreign Titles

  • Hänsel und Gretel: Hexenjäger (DE)
  • Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (UK)
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