Hansel & Gretel
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Movie Reviews of Hansel & Gretel
Movie Review: An Amazing Hansel and Gretel
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be the finest version of Hansel and Gretel. I
love the opera version and am glad to see it as a movie. It was
a new way to show the story.
Movie Review: I love this movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie i used to watch when i was a kid. I cannot believe i found it!Movie Review: "This is how the world can be, all the children strong and free..."
Summary: 4 Stars
The Cannon MovieTales version of HANSEL & GRETEL was one of the most ambitious in the series. It features a musical score freely-adapted from Engelbert Humperdinck's famed opera version of the Grimm Brothers tale.
Hansel (Hugh Pollard) and Gretel (Nicola Stapleton) live with their poverty-stricken parents on the edge of a dark and wild forest. One morning, the frazzled mother sends Hansel and Gretel out into the woods to find some food...any food. Pretty soon, the children are hopelessly lost; until they stumble across a life-sized candy house and an evil witch with a serious food craving!
This delightful version of the tale is a joy from start to finish; one of the all-time best from the nine Cannon MovieTales. Hugh Pollard and Nicola Stapleton are captivating in the title roles, whilst David Warner and Emily Richard add some much-needed gravity to the father and mother. Cloris Leachman steals every moment as the wicked witch Griselda, and she clearly loves playing the baddie.
The Cannon MovieTales were filmed, very economically, back-to-back in Israel between 1987-1989. The series has garnered a very strong fan following; mostly those who grew up seeing them on the Disney Channel. Happily most of the titles have now found their way to DVD (Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor's New Clothes, Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White).
If you haven't seen this enchanting version of HANSEL & GRETEL, don't wait a second longer! (Single-sided, single-layer disc).
Movie Review: Fairy Tale with a Witch with personality.
Summary: 4 Stars
A boy and girl, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house of a wicked witch who is in disguise, who eats children. The witch's intent later revealed may be scary for younger children, which is unavoidable in a story of a witch who eats children. It was not scary for me. If you let your children watch television, this would not be scary in comparison.
I read that stories like this were told to children in Europe in the early 1800's and before, to keep them from wandering into the woods, in those days when large packs of wolves roamed the forests, in packs as large as a 100 wolves or more, in an age without guns, through the age of the one shot flint-lock rifle (hundreds of years). A wolf pack will circle their prey and attack simultaneously from all sides.
The witch's house is interesting, showing some creativity. The witch has a lot of personality. A low budget forest. I enjoyed it.
Movie Review: Worst Semi-Musical EVER!
Summary: 1 Stars
There were two things that I really hated about this movie: the music and the forest. I'm not sure where they shot this movie, but the trees looked like they were most likely eucalyptus trees. You'd think they could have at least found a nice dark forest somewhere that would be reminiscent of the dark woods you'd expect in this sort of tale. The poor selection of filming locations might be over-looked, but the incredibly banal music was just unforgivable! I talked to a couple of young kids after they'd watched this movie and they very adamantly insisted that it was a terrible movie. In general I'd say that this movie was on the verge of being amateurish (despite the presense of well-known actors) except that someone did a nice job building the gingerbread house. If it weren't for that element of the movie, I'd rate it at zero stars instead of one star! (NOTE: The child actors did a fine job performing their roles and it is not at all their fault that the movie is so lame!)