Revisionist fairy tales have become more and more popular over the last several decades. The most beloved childhood fables have been repeated and reimagined over the ages, of course. We've seen family-friendly or Disneyfied retellings of Grimm's stories, darker myths such as Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and contemporized versions of classics such as 1996's Freeway (derived from Red Riding Hood).
This big budget, effects-heavy, 3D version of Jack and the Beanstalk, however, doesn't seem to quite know what it wants to be. It is by turns a live-action cartoon with broadly-drawn, though intermittently entertaining, characters; a CGI animation heavy cartoon, cartoon with somewhat muddled creature design and a short-lived sword and shield adventure. The overall effect is a fairly entertaining, though less than ground-breaking, film.
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