Jack the Giant Killer (film)

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Movie
German title Jack the Giant Killer
Original title Jack the Giant Killer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mark Atkins
script Mark Atkins
production David Michael Latt
music Chris Ridenhour
Andrew Morgan Smith
camera Mark Atkins
cut Karl Armstrong
occupation

Jack the Giant Killer is an American science fiction - action film from the year 2013 . The film was directed by Mark Atkins and produced by David Michael Latt for The Asylum .

action

Jack Krutchens lives with his mother Sharon and stepfather Nigel in a rural area in the UK. Together with his girlfriend Lisa, he is working on a large, robotic combat suit in his barn. On Jack's 18th birthday, he receives a small package from Jess, who introduces himself as a friend of his biological father. His mother and stepfather tell Jack that his biological father, Newald Krutchens, worked with them to research new ways of overcoming hunger before he was born. One day he disappeared, according to Jack's mother "upstairs". After this knowledge, Jack drives Lisa to a field, where he opens the package in which he finds some giant beans. He throws it on the field because he cannot see any benefit in it.

The next day, Jack is called to the field where a huge beanstalk has developed. As he approaches the tendril, he is caught by it and catapulted into the air. Jack finds himself in a strange world, where he is attacked by a dinosaur-like creature shortly afterwards . He can save himself on a flying lock. There he meets his biological father, who has only aged a few days since he disappeared. Newald brings Jack to Queen Serena to find a way home for Jack. Serena has lived in the cloud world since she was abducted from Earth by giants and wants to take revenge on humanity with the help of the dinosaurs, which she controls with an amulet. With a new tendril that Lisa plants with a leftover bean and which she also brings to the cloud kingdom, Serena succeeds in bringing herself and the monsters to earth to begin her revenge.

On earth, the military tries to defeat the monsters, but this is not possible with conventional weapons. Newald, Jack and Lisa follow Serena with her floating castle to earth, apparently killing the largest of the monsters. Newald destroys Serena's amulet, but this only causes the monsters to spiral out of control. Meanwhile, Serena reveals that she doesn't want to destroy humanity, but actually just wants to find her mother again, who has been dead for many years. Finally, with the help of his combat suit, Jack succeeds in destroying the monsters for good.

background

The film is a so-called mockbuster of the 2013 film Jack and the Giants by director Bryan Singer . In addition to elements from the English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk ( Jack and the Beanstalk ) also motifs from the fairy tale Jack the Giant Killer ( Jack the Giant Killer used).

reception

The editorial staff of Cinema.de judged Jack the Giant Killer as a “Fantasytrash from the Asylum company”, which was “made lousy as usual”, but still contained a certain “self-irony”. Cinema draws the conclusion: "Nice stupid, but not everything is stupid". On the website kino.de, the film is described as a “poor but entertaining fairy tale double sausage”, which, however, is ultimately “lively fantasy trash fun for the whole family”. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , Jack the Giant Killer achieved an audience rating of 11% based on 79 votes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Jack the Giant Killer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 734 V).
  2. ↑ Jack the Giant Killer. Cinema.de, accessed on August 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jack the Giant Killer (2013). kino.de, accessed on August 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jack the Giant Killer (2013). Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .