Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Treat yourself: buy the pick'n'mix but skip the film.

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

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

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

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

There's rarely a moment where you don't feel like there's at least one reel of footage missing.

... A story that -- fortunately -- lasts less than an hour and a half. [Full review in Spanish]

Is it the worst movie you’ll see? Hardly. Does it have a few moments that work? Well, yes. But are there a number of better ways you could spend your time? Most definitely.

Be it the fault of the filmmakers or the concept itself, something about leather-clad badasses who trek through antiquated Eastern-European countries to fight monsters with an elaborate, modernish arsenal just never seems to work.

...more entertaining than one might've anticipated...