Gretel & Hansel [Movie Review]

Gretel & Hansel [Movie Review] | I grew up reading all these fairy tales from all over the world - Baba Yaga, Hansel & Gretel and many more. 

So when I see Gretel & Hansel is out in the nearest cinema, my friends and I decided to watch it, hoping to have some scary eerie time together. That's just we roll. Haha.
SYNOPSIS Gretel & Hansel Trivia

• Directed by: Oz Perkins

• Produced by: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger

• Production companies: Orion Pictures, Automatik Entertainment, Bron Creative

• Distributed by: United Artists Releasing

• Running time: 87 minutes

• Rating: PG-13 (For disturbing images/ thematic content and brief drug material)

• The title was changed because this version focuses on Gretel. They wanted Gretel to be older so that it will be Gretel having to take Hansel everywhere.
• Budget: $5 million
• Box-Office: $6.1 million

• Tomatometer: 55%
• Metascore:64

• IMDb: 5.7/ 10

The movie started with Gretel attending an interview, leaving his little brother outside the house. During the interview, she was asked if she is still a virgin. The question pisses her off and she storms back to her house with her little brother running after her behind her back.

At their home, her mother asks her about the outcome of the interview. When her mother learns that she failed the interview, she suddenly becomes aggressive and threatens to kill her and her brother if they did not run out of the house. 
'You'll die if you stay here. Dig yourselves some pretty little graves.' she says. Gretel would have stayed if not for her deranged mother put an ax on the dinner table. 
Together the siblings run out of the house, not knowing where to head. When they tried to look for shelter in an old house, they encountered a creature that was about to kill them, if not for the assistance from a huntsman, who later gave them shelter and food for the night. 

The next day, he sends them on their way to the mountain people, reminding her, again and again, to keep to the tracks and do not wander off.
When Hansel smells the sweet smell of cake in the forest, there was nothing that Gretel could do to stop her brother. They broke inside the house where the smell originates from. There was food inside and Hansel, as the one who broke into the house, tried to steal some food. And then he got caught by the house-owner.
It turns out Holda is the old lady who owns the house and she offers them shelter and food if they stay with her. All seems good but when Gretel keeps on having bad dreams about the owner and the house, she started to question and look around. 

What will she find? Is Holda all that she shows, or is there more to her than what she appears to be?
MY REVIEW Plot: 2.0/ 5.0 Not that I was looking for the exact same fairy tale that I have been reading growing up as I know that production houses are shooting the fairy tales from different angles nowadays, most of the time, darker than dark. But this one totally got me confused with the storyline, who is what, and when. And the narrative didn't actually help to straighten it. Perhaps less is better - rather than putting too many elements into this one, they could have done better with just a bit here and there.
Cast: 3.5/ 5.0 The cast is quite great. So I think their skills were underused and underutilized.
Will I Watch It Again: No, thank you. The pictures are taken from IMDb and other sources on the Internet. Thank you.
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