Fresh
Hardly innovative, but effective and handsomely produced, Hansel & Gretel puts the "grim" in Grimm while placing South Korean director Yim Phil-sung on the shortlist of Pan's Labyrinth emulators to trust.
Rob Nelson, Variety
Hansel & Gretel
Don't go, we'll be good.
2007 · 1h 57m · TV-14
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Directed by
Yim Pil-sung
Overview
When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Eun-soo finally discovers a way out which is written on a fairy tale book. But the book tells a story of none other than himself!
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It is a film that is just good enough to keep you hanging around to the end, at which point you leave the theatre feeling vaguely let down.
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
Fresh
It's inconsistent: too predictable and simplistic for adults, too disturbing and bloody for their offspring. It's hard to know who it's for.
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out
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