This has become one of my all time favorite movies... great costumes, excellent CG, fantastic story, and a powerful cast...This is a must see!

Well during the last year I was living in London I was excited to seeing Jack the Giant slayer but sadly I was unable to see the movie for some reason. Just because I just didn't see it. I later saw this movie on an airplane coming from Miami to Dubai where we moved to in 2013. I really liked the movie and for a while it was one of my all time favourites. I remember when Ewan Mcgregers character jumping onto the beanstalk before the Giants could climb down and I was like. So everything is resolved, Jack and the princess are safe and none of the characters I like are dead, so I was like thats it right. But then the giants find some of the beans my the waterfall entrance and they use it to get down to the ground and I was like. Holy sh-t. This is going to be epic. Basically the rest of the movie is the giants trying to take down the castle and get inside and everyone is working together to try and stop them. Having not seeing this movie in a long time so I cant really talk about this movie that much. Why don't I do a pro and cons.Pros:1. Ewan McGregor was awesome in this movie. He's really good in all the roles he does.2. The music is pretty good.3. A-lot of the characters are really likeable to me, even the king.4. The last 30 minutes were just great.5. The giant leader and his second in command was awesome.Cons:1. That thing about the giants just wanting eat the princess or at least the giant king because she's related to the king who banished the giants by blood. Which I just find stupid.2. The main human antagonist Roderick dies looking like and idiot.3. The special effects aren't that good. Some stuff looks nice but the giants look like they were being rendered on screen. In my opinion the cgi looks better at the end of the movie, but it still looks bad in the first 2/3's of the movie.For all these things I give this movie a 10 out of 10. The bad stuff I listed isn't enough for me to hate this movie.

A remake of the '60s cult classic JACK THE GIANT KILLER, with improved CGI effects and less of a fun feel. Saying that, I did get a kick out of watching JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, which is far from the worst big budget CGI spectacle. In fact, I quite enjoyed it, a lot more than the likes of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and ALICE IN WONDERLAND.The lack of a decent storyline is the worst thing about this film. Everything about the writing is clichéd and derivative: the too-obvious villain characters, the steadfast (and dull) heroes, the damsel-in-distress storyline. Nicholas Hoult is one of those bland, youthful, modern-day leading man who brings not one ounce of charisma to the role, although the supporting cast are a little better, especially Ian McShane (who, to my delight, gets plenty of screen time). It seems by this stage that the overexposed Stanley Tucci is desperate to appear in any old thing.Ewan McGregor is here too, stiff as a board and making STAR WARS jokes, which is embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as Ewen Bremner's dull-witted henchman, though. Eleanor Tomlinson's princess is pretty but also pretty vacuous, although that's more down to the writing than the actress. The film as a whole is dominated by CGI effects work, some good, some not so great. The important thing is that the CGI giants do look fine and are among the better CGI effects I've seen in modern cinema. One thing that amused me is that the storyline is tied up in little over an hour, so there's a whole tacked-on ending involving full-scale warfare which is actually more enjoyable than the simplistic quest storyline that preceded it.

A modern reinvention of the famous fairytale, the 2013 version of Jack and the Beanstalk is what you'd expect: a young peasant boy gets wrapped into an adventure with knights who must rescue a princess snatched by the suddenly growing stalk, and then abducted by giants.Ultimately just sort of'there', Bryan Singer's fantasy adventure just feels like an exercise in studio 'box ticking' without much gusto or spark. This is thanks to a lot of unfinished CGI effects (a cinematic detailing the origin of the human/giant conflict trying to go for a 'woodcut' aesthetic but instead looking more like those glossy PS1 cutscenes with stretched textures and 'shine') and extreme'been there, done that' writing that won't do much for older viewers (and it doesn't have its tongue in cheek often enough to compensate). It gives us the most basic 'underdog saves princess and stops ancient evil from destroying land' plot in a while and again, not in a charming 'throwback' or self aware way like say Indiana Jones or Pirates of the Caribbean pulled off. However, its charismatic and talented cast do try, with Stanley Tucci being enjoyably hammy and slimy as a Jafar-esque adviser while veteran Ian McShane is imposing as the old King. Singer regular and Composer John Ottman provides a suitably bold and bombastic orchestral score ala classic John Williams that adds a greater sense of wonder and awe than the film itself allows at times. Plus the action, in spite of the passable effects, still has some neat moments of invention, like the giants using windmills as throwing blades, sending entire battalions of knights flying, and the giants themselves are suitably grotesque. However though, this does lead to the obvious jokes (seriously, take a guess as to what kind of broad, pandering comedy a bunch of filthy monsters are going to have in a family-aimed film).In the end, 'Slayer' is just safe, a film that ticks boxes and gets from A to B. It's perfectly passable family entertainment, and the kids will probably get into the giants and action, but unless you need a quick fantasy fix, go elsewhere.