Weirdly enough, this film's title is actually the original title of the film it is based on, which changed its name to Jack The Giant Slayer in order to appear more family friendly. Yeah, I'll bet.Īnyway, overall, Jack The Giant Killer is not worth your time. Also, it is implied that Jack's father killed all the Giants while he was there, rendering an entire species of magical and presumably super powered monsters the size of Godzilla extinct in less than a month with no real resources to draw from. On the one hand, I understand why they did this just to avoid confusion, but then the time shift thing is completely arbitrary anyway, and I almost think playing with time and jumping forward a year would have been an interesting twist to the plot. They establish this time discrepancy only to then completely ignore it throughout the rest of the movie, as the characters in the land of the clouds easily spend at least a day away from Earth, and yet when they go back down, time has been moving at the same rate, rather than advancing forward a year as it should have. At one point, when Jack finds his father, he finds out that from his father's perspective, he's only been there 19 days, even though on Earth he's been gone for 19 years. Oh, and this probably isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but its the kind of poor attention to detail that I always notice and instantly dislike.

This obvious missed opportunity to transcend the bounds of crappy knockoffs into blissful madness is perhaps the film's greatest flaw.

I can't begin to express just how much I would have preferred this movie to be all about fairy tale giants fighting regular sized humans in mech robots. It never comes up at all throughout the story and in its lazy execution almost feels like an insulting jab at the over the top craziness of these movies. In the beginning we just see him building this thing out of junk for no reason for like five minutes, and then in the last five minutes, he just suddenly remembers that he has a giant robot made of junk that might help in their hour of need. The problem is, this element is both an incredibly minor part of the overall story, and is wedged in with no context or explanation whatsoever for its inclusion. Specifically, the movie starts with Jack riding a giant mech robot and fighting a dinosaur. When this movie started, I had the meekest reason to hope that it might turn out to be one of those rare gems in the mockbuster canon that understands the insanity inherent to its existence and embraces it for all its worth.

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