Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Name: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Released: January 25, 2013
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 23
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Renner, Peter Stormare

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: January 25, 2013 | R

Starring: Gemma Arterton, Jeremy Renner, Peter Stormare

Summary: Catching up with Hansel and Gretel 15 years after their incident involving a gingerbread house, the siblings have evolved into bounty hunters who hunt witches.

Director: Tommy Wirkola

Genre(s): Action, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 88 min

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Tom Russo

Jan 27, 2013

Wirkola tears through Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Jan 25, 2013

The grim heroes don't have a nuance or more than a hint of emotion between them, and the same goes for the film around them. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jan 25, 2013

Even if he's slumming, Renner gets it best: his dry delivery fully acknowledges the movie's ridiculousness. If you're planning on entering this fractured fairy tale, you'll want to follow his lead. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Jan 25, 2013

The Playlist Katie Walsh

Jan 25, 2013

Not only is not even a single character more than one-dimensional, but every line falls flatter than a witch dispatched with a Gatling gun. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Jan 25, 2013

No stranger to one-joke premises, writer-director Tommy Wirkola (of 2009's Nazi-zombie "classic" "Dead Snow") populates this frenzied horror-satire with tons of incoherently staged bloodletting and f-bomb–accentuated kiss-off lines. It's a grim fairy tale, all right. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Jan 25, 2013

An exceedingly dull and stillborn attempt to update the Brothers Grimm. Read full review

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Unbelievable21

Jan 25, 2013

Not sure why this is getting such low reviews. It's a FUN movie, plain and simple. Just sit back and enjoy the cheesy one-liners and watching people get blown up. No, it's not a 10, but I gave it one to counter the unnecessarily low rating.

Oh, and, this is coming from someone who thoughtNot sure why this is getting such low reviews. It's a FUN movie, plain and simple. Just sit back and enjoy the cheesy one-liners and watching people get blown up. No, it's not a 10, but I gave it one to counter the unnecessarily low rating.

Oh, and, this is coming from someone who thought that Zero Dark Thirty and The Master were two of the best movies of last year.… Expand

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cbibejs

Jan 2, 2014

Don't trust the reviews that movies is just Great!Trust your gut and enjoy the movie.Movie have everything you want good acting,good actions,great sense of humor,great fun