Jack the Giant Slayer

"Jack the Giant Slayer feels, unsurprisingly, like an attempt to cash in on a trend, recycling storybook characters, situations and battle sequences to mechanical and wearyingly predictable effect."

"Not one for cynics or bedwetters, if you’re after a ripping, roaring, thigh-slapping giant of a fairytale, Bryan Singer’s blockbuster panto will be right up your beanstalk."

"So many blockbuster movies are impersonal, micromanaged hashes that Jack, with its bare minimum of craft and commitment, comparatively comes off like a diamond in the rough."

"Just a digitally souped-up, one-dimensional take on "Jack and the Beanstalk," capped by the kind of interminable blowout that makes many big-studio entertainments feel as long as the last Oscars."

"It's a bloodless, gutless piece of PG-13 fodder, geared to go down easy. That it does. It practically evaporates while you're watching it, lulling when you most want it to levitate."

"There may never have been a Jack tale that delivered so little pleasure for so many dollars as what we have here."

"Fee-fi-fo-fum, this fairy-tale retread is pretty dumb."

"Singer’s tall tale is snatched from disaster by an all-hell-breaks-loose third act."

"Spends a great deal of its focus on fights that stretch out to Lord Of The Rings length, but without LOTR-level effects or panache."