It takes a long while - truth to be told, a few scenes past the point of perfect timing - before we get to the magic beans and the stalk that shoots to the sky and the mysterious land above Earth populated entirely by giants. Jack has grown up to become Nicholas Hoult, a handsome and almost boringly noble young man now living with his bitter old uncle after the plague took Dad.Įleanor Tomlinson is Princess Isabelle, who of course is adventurous and romantic and incorrigible, and REALLY wishes she didn't have to marry the gross, old and obviously duplicitous Roderick (the great Stanley Tucci, hamming it up just shy of a mustache twirl). Meanwhile, behind the walls of the castle Cloister, a princess in waiting eagerly absorbs the same story, read to her by her mother, who, like Jack's dad, isn't going to make it past the opening credits of this story.Ĭut to 10 years later. Young Jack, a farm boy about 8 years old, has read the story so many times, the pages on his book have nearly worn away - yet he begs his kindly, widowed father to tell him the tale just one more time. "Jack the Giant Slayer" begins with the reading of a legend in two very different homes on the same night. In fact, I have a few questions about the Giant Way of Life, but we'll get to that later. There's even room for just the hint of empathy for the giants.
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