Hansel and Gretel is the tale of two children who get lost in the forest, and stumble upon a house made of sweets, where a witch resides. They are tricked into staying with the witch, before she shows her true colors, and tries to eat Hansel. In the end Gretel outsmarts the witch, and cooks her in and oven and frees her brother. A simple story, with a simple resolution. What happens when take that simple story and add in a ton of violence, gore, swearing, and guns? You get Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a film that takes the concept and turns it into a funny action movie.
The movie starts off with the two being called in to investigate, and bring back, missing children in the area. Gretel finds out, when taking out a witch with Hansel, that there is a blood moon approaching, and the children are needed for something. It is later in the movie, during an attack by two witches, that they need twelve children. Each child needs to be born from a different month in the year, the last of which they get in the attack. The final piece needed is the heart of a great white witch, which Gretel is. This is unknown to her until later in the movie when she is captured, after a fight with the grand witch at their old home in the woods. During the blood moon, with the help of some allies, Hansel kills a bunch of witches, and Gretel is freed. In the end they kill a great witch, in a battle at the witch’s house that captured them as children, and continue their adventures killing witches.
One way both works are similar are in their back story. In both the children are taken into the woods, and left there by the father. In hunger they come across the house made of candy, and take a bite. The witch gets them, and Hansel is forced eat, while Gretel...
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The other type of witch, which was talked about in an earlier paragraph, is a white witch. These witches do not harm children, or people for that matter, and look to help others. Their spells protect, heal, and bless people or objects, as that is what one did to Hansel and Gretel’s weapons towards the end of the movie. Their appearance is no different than a normal person, as evil magic is what causes the transformation.
In the end the movie was fun to watch, and the tale was fun to read. Both were kind of weird, especially the movie, but were interesting. The movie itself, while not being a direct reimagining of the classic tale, does very well as an action sequel. A sort of what are they doing now with their lives, after their experience. If I had a choice though, I would still read the tale over viewing the movie.
There are few similarities between the book and the movie. Usually most movies are similar to
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