(SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "JACK THE GIANT SLAYER") TURAN: These behemoths are so big they throw burning trees around when they don't get what they want. "Jack" is directed by Bryan Singer. Its ...

Jack the Giant Slayer is at worst a pleasant diversion. All its talk of myths and legends, and complex set pieces with giants hurling burning trees at castles might set lofty goals, but at its ...

SALT LAKE CITY — There was something about the trailers leading up to “Jack the Giant Slayer” that didn’t resonate with me. I liked the cast, I liked the director, and while some of the ...

Fairy tale adaptation Jack the Giant Slayer — the first big-budget event movie of 2013 — is facing soft prerelease tracking as it prepares for its March 1 debut in the shadow of fellow fantasy ...

According to “Jack the Giant­ Slayer” director Bryan Singer, newcomer Eleanor Tomlinson was cast as feisty Princess Isabelle “because she had the best chemistry” with Jack (Nicholas Hoult ...

(SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "JACK THE GIANT SLAYER") TURAN: These behemoths are so big they throw burning trees around when they don't get what they want. "Jack" is directed by Bryan Singer. Its ...

Splicing Jack the Giant-Killer (subject of a 1962 kids’ monster movie which ... amidst a dourly humourless mood. The beanstalk's Amazon tree-thick tendrils and the detailed camp struck at its base ...

With a budget estimated in the $190-million range, this “Jack” does have all things money can buy, including a hoard of computer-generated giants given to throwing burning trees around when ...

Jack has great hair even when climbing a tree to a faraway land and there aren't any decent ... and I think the industry will manage a few more years before it's seen again. Jack the Giant Slayer is ...

The most striking thing about “Jack the Giant Slayer” is how utterly unmemorable ... legion of angry giants hurling flaming, full-sized trees. Yet he never manages to convey a meaningful ...

There’s a plucky farm boy (Nicholas Hoult), a feisty princess (Eleanor Tomlinson) and a mix up with a bag of magic beans that leaves Jack on the ... a flaming CG oak tree through the story ...