STORY: ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ Cast on the Challenges of Motion Capture. The film holds a 52 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and below is a sampling of what the critics had to say about Hollywood ...

At the very least there's a mesmerizing gnarled stalk in Jack the Giant Slayer (* * ½ out of four; rated PG-13; opens Friday nationwide) that grows into something faster, thicker and taller than ...

The film is titled “Jack the Giant Slayer,” which implies a story about humans is contained therein. It is boring and rote. Jack is a humble farmboy, played with a wide-eyed, ...

Movie Review: 'Jack The Giant Slayer' The story of Jack and his beanstalk has been filmed innumerable times by people as diverse as Gene Kelly, Chuck Jones and the Three Stooges. While he's been ...

Jack the Giant Slayer Production: A Warner Bros. release of a New Line Cinema presentation in association with Legendary Pictures of an Original Film/Big Kid Pictures/Bad Hat Harry production.

"Jack the Giant Slayer" was the latest high-budget film to bomb opening weekend. In what has been a six-week slump to the start of year, Warner Bros. fairytale-inspired film earned $27.2 million ...

Jack the Giant Slayer is easily the most amiable picture to come out of this new fairy-tale-action genre, hitting its studio-prescribed marks without making you feel as if you’re being ...

Twisting a familiar bedtime story like a beanstalk, Jack the Giant Slayer possesses the same sedating qualities. That might be a compliment if Bryan Singer's version were a picture book but it's a ...

That predictability prevents Jack the Giant Slayer from being anything out of the ordinary, but the pair are smart enough storytellers — and have an immensely talented cast — to make the film ...

Big-Budget ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ Faces Soft Tracking. UPDATED: Director Bryan Singer's latest movie cost nearly $200 million to produce and originally was set to open in June 2012.