Simply in terms of storytelling, logistics and consistent viewer engagement, "Jack" is markedly superior to the recent "Hobbit." By Todd McCarthy Jack The Giant Slayer Giant - H 2013 When will all ...

This process is central to the structure of Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer ... guard (led by Ewan McGregor's Elmont), along with Lord Roderick (Stanley Tucci), fiance to the princess ...

After an initial delay (from last summer), Bryan Singer’s fairy tale action-adventure Jack the Giant Slayer has finally ... (McShane), to his royal advisor Roderick (Tucci).

but we know this is about giants because it's called Jack the Giant Slayer. We don't have the villain revealed from the get-go, either, and we see Roderick in a much more sympathetic light at first.

Instead, Jack the Giant Slayer, while well-crafted ... Poor Isabelle has been promised in marriage to an older man, Roderick (Stanley Tucci, camping it up with a Terry Thomas gap-toothed grin ...

But for long stretches, “Jack the Giant Slayer” is an awful lot of fee ... escape after having stolen from the king’s adviser, Roderick (Stanley Tucci). The monk needs Jack’s horse ...

LOS ANGELES - There's more to this Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation than Fee-fi-fo-fum. At the very least there's a mesmerizing gnarled stalk in Jack the Giant Slayer (* * ½ out of four ...

having run off to keep herself from marrying Roderick, who is clearly only interested in becoming king. Soon, the beans take root with a giant stalk carrying away the princess and Jack's house.

Thus begins a long climb-and-rescue expedition, during which Jack and Elmont must battle not only Roderick ... which feels too derivative of “The Lord of the Rings” and other medieval epics ...

Director Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer alters the thrust ... (Ian McShane), who insists she marry an older man named Roderick (Stanley Tucci). Think Moonrise Kingdom with cannibals.

Director Bryan Singer, on the other hand, has resisted the temptation to present a darker or modernised take on the Jack and the Beanstalk or Jack the Giant Killer fairytales on which it’s based.