Love love love! I wish you could hear my sing-songy voice, well, maybe not, I loved this movie!

Even in the middle of it, I turned to DCM and said we must add this to our movie collection! There are some movies that I enjoy the I don’t feel the need to add to the collection, this one was!

What a cast! The boy who played Jack, I knew him from X-Men as Hank or The Beast, but I knew I had seen him in something recently, something where there was a transformation… I know you’re not supposed to use your phone in the theater, but with 2 other people all the way in the back, thank goodness for Internet and imdb.com! He was the lead boy/zombie in Warm Bodies I told you about a few weeks ago; he was cute in this, cute like in X-Men, but not swoon-worthy cute as in Warm Bodies (back off, he’s more than legal!)

Jack was great, shy and adventurous, sweet and brave and clever and you want him to win and get the girl!

Wean McGregor played Elmont, head of the kings guards and he reminded me of a young Kenneth Branagh, and for me, that’s a great compliment! He was brave and dashing and daring and had a good heart.

Stanley Tucci was Roderick, if you’ve seen any previews, you can guess he’s a bad dude and I have to say, he plays a great bad dude! You’re rooting for him to get stomped by a giant!

Ian McShane, who has become famous in recent years for playing Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean. He plays King Brahmwell in this story and he’s a good king who loves his daughter.

A few other faces or voices you might recognize, Bill Nighy, it’s his voice you’ll recognize. The funny thing about Bill Nighy,…I first saw him in Blow Dry, he plays a hair dresser. DCM first saw him in Underworld, he plays a really nasty vampire, go figure. I this he plays a giant, General Fallon and really not nice. Warwick Davis plays Old Hamm, in it for about 5 minutes, 19 max, you may remember him from Willow, as…Willow.

The story is basically how legends become legends and then the possibility of them coming to life. You know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, this is a slightly different take or twist, but the lore didn’t fall far from “the truth”. Boy goes to town to sell horse, boy steps into carny show, girl is getting accosted, boy saves girls, turns out girl is princess who just wants to get out and see the world. Somehow she ends up going up with the beanstalk, the king sends a group, Jack goes with them, they save the princess, giants find a way down to do battle with humans.

By now, you can tell boy and girl like each other, but boy is commoner, but does princess care? Nope!

Boy saves kingdom, after it gets smashed up a bit (not boy’s fault), then boy…do I tell you if boy gets girl! I’ll let you guess!

There were only a few things that made me go..eewwe, other than that, I loved it and recommend it, it was funny, scary even once or twice and not hide my eyes scary, just ooh, suspenseful scary, if that makes sense. I was biting my nails at one point, I squeezed DCM’s hand another and couldn’t wait for some characters to get eaten by a giant, they really did deserve it. There were even some bad one liners, we thought “did they really go there?” There were some predictable parts and that was ok too.

All in all… You guessed it, I loved it!