Bryan Singer’s “Jack the Giant Slayer” is a gentle giant, a short and sweet climb that’s fun all the way up the bean stalk. For those longing for more epic adventure but were disappointed with the ...

“Jack the Giant Slayer” is only incrementally more fun than a spate of other recent action-fantasy movies based on classic fairy tales. It has too much of a whiff of the familiar to stand very tall.

The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" has been filmed by people as diverse as Gene Kelly, Chuck Jones and the Three Stooges. Now there's "Jack the Giant Slayer." Kenneth Turan has this review. KENNETH ...

Fee-fi-fo-fum, “Jack the Giant Slayer” left me numb. After viewing all of the expensive computer-generated giants in this competent but uninspired fantasy, I wish they’d chosen to use actors instead ...

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LOS ANGELES – This week's "Jack the Giant Slayer," a 3-D retelling of the Jack and the Beanstalk legend, contains all the elements of the classic tale: farm boy, beans, giants, etc. But along for the ...

It wasn’t exactly a mighty victory, but “Jack the Giant Slayer” won the weekend at the box office. The Warner Bros. 3-D action extravaganza, based on the Jack and the Beanstalk legend, made just $28 ...

Fee-fi-fo-fum, “Jack the Giant Slayer” left me numb. After viewing all of the expensive computer-generated giants in this competent but uninspired fantasy, I wish they’d chosen to use actors instead ...

If the Titanic had a beanstalk, it would look like the one in “Jack the Giant Slayer”: lushly green and utterly enormous, bursting through the floor like a flock of angry eels; shooting skyward and ...

Jack the Giant Slayer, a retelling of the fairy tale typically known by the far less macho-sounding Jack and the Beanstalk or Jack and the Magic Beans, opens with a lengthy assault of noise (aural and ...