Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters A film with a concept this strange has no right to be so dully formulaic.

The long-delayed Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, with Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner, finally flops into cinemas but comes out half-baked

Campy, violent version of Grimm's fairy tale should entice fanboys.

Tommy Wirkola’s revamped version of the old Brothers Grimm tale

If this long-delayed and blatantly pandering CGI malarkey is anything to go by, Hollywood’s current craze for fairy tales isn’t going to have a happy ending.

Once upon a time, about eight centuries ago, when Little Red Riding Hood was being eaten by a wolf in granny glasses, there lived a pair of starving orphans named Hansel and Gretel who were lured into a house in the woods made entirely of candy and cookies by a grotesque old hag who intended to ...

The fairy-tale, horror/action film, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, is part of the same genre-twisting wave that has seen Abraham Lincoln and Jane Austen fighting vampires and zombies

The good news is that the actors here appear to be having fun. The bad news is that we’re not.

An R-rated horror action comedy fairytale -- How’s that for genre bending? “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” is more Gatling guns and grenades than The Brothers Grimm. It takes the kidnapped kiddies into adulthood, where they’ve parlayed their fame at cooking a witch’s goose into a business. Got a witch problem? Call H & G…

The story aims for campy fun, but comes off tedious and blood-spattered.

Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola's first feature, the zombie Nazi movie ‘Dead Snow’, was a silly but enjoyable mess. His Hollywood debut, shot in 2009 and origi

"The idea is, they’ve grown up and they hunt witches," said producer Adam McKay in 2010. "It’s a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there’s pump-action shotguns. Modern technology but in an old style.