Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Reviews
Tulsa World
The only audience I can think of who might enjoy this movie would be 12- or 13-year-old boys, whose parents may be wary of letting them watch it because of the numerous instances of haphazardly inserted curse words.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
ScreenRant
Despite aiming for a deeper character story, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters only succeeds as mindless and bloody entertainment - thin as its fairy tale source material.
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| Original Score: 2/5
HeyUGuys
Maybe it wouldn't seem so bad if the plot made a lick of sense...but it doesn't!
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| Original Score: 1/5
Paste Magazine
Just another entry in Bland Fairy Tale Theater, a shapeless riff on those hapless German siblings with the worst parents ever.
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| Original Score: 5.8/10
Schmoes Know
The effects and make-up stand out, and some of the action sequences packed a punch, but the film was just too dull and predictable to help it rise above the January heap.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Schmoes Know
Some promise was there, but "Hansel and Gretel" is ultimately just another January bore that we'll forget by March.
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| Original Score: 2/5
2UE That Movie Show
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters has the hypnotic allure of a candy-coated house but in reality, it's a diabetic coma.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Irish Times
There's no reason in the world for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters not to be good, clean, trashy fun. But it isn't.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
Tommy Wirkola's film suggests A Knight's Tale as penned by Seth MacFarlane.
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| Original Score: 0/4
The Ooh Tray
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?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I remember clearly what it was like to be a 12-year-old boy and know that if they had let me make a movie at that age it would look an awful lot like 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.'
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
The List
At best it's an intermittent assault on the senses but even that's not nearly as fun as it sounds.
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| Original Score: 2/5
What Culture
Wirkola aims for camp but overshoots, causing things to feel less like Sam Raimi and more like Uwe Boll.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ComingSoon.net
Playing his film with a constant wink and nod Wirkola spends Hansel & Gretel's running time balanced on a knife's edge and juggling flaming chainsaws while doing it. He never falls although he does frequently stumble quite badly.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Top Critic
Quickflix
A half-heartedly conceived, boringly executed, and instantly forgettable feathered-fish for absolutely no one... just bad enough to incite an existential, soul-searching journey wherein we wonder if we are even capable of experiencing joy
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| Original Score: 2/5
The movie has been sitting on the shelf for a while, and like, say, a house of candy you might find in the woods, it's gotten a bit stale.
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| Original Score: C-
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.
Scotsman
There's the occasional reasonable joke, a very game Arterton in leather trousers, and enough gore to make even a Grimm brother shudder.
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| Original Score: 2/5
A rarely funny spoof that's heavy on bone-crushing and blood-gushing.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
