But hey, Jeremy Renner and R-rated action, how bad could it be? The answer was pretty bad, but also a bit brilliant. Our theater was far from packed, and we all agreed our expectations were low after the release's repeated delays and the bad reviews our colleagues had posted. This is why fellow bloggers/critics, Rudie Obias, Angie Han and Perri Nemiroff and I braved the insanely cold temperatures Friday to see the movie on its opening night. Back in Augsburg, they burn a heap of witches on a pyre and collect their reward.Paramount Pictures seems to have suspected critics by and large wouldn't care for Norwegian writer-director Tommy Wirkola's English-language debut, as press screenings for the film were notoriously hard to come by. The siblings and Muriel then engage in a vicious fight that ends with Muriel being decapitated and her head being thrown into the oven, and Gretel picking up Muriel's magic wand. Muriel injures Ben and kills Mina before Gretel arrives. Hansel and Mina follow Muriel's trail and battle her at the original gingerbread house. Hansel pursues her immediately while Gretel stops to revive Edward. Some witches attempt to flee the carnage but are killed by traps, and Muriel too tries to escape on a broomstick but is downed by Ben. ![]() In the midst of the slaughter, Edward defies Muriel's orders and releases Gretel before Muriel throws him off the cliff. Using the blessed guns, Hansel and Mina attack a large gathering of dark witches who came there from all over the world, massacring them and freeing the children. Hansel, Mina, and Ben head out to disrupt the Blood Moon Sabbath at a neaby mountain. ![]() She heals his wounds again and uses a grimoire to bless Hansel's arsenal of weapons. Hansel wakes up with Mina, who reveals herself to be a white witch. Following this revelation, the siblings battle Muriel before she stabs Hansel and abducts Gretel for the ritual. The townspeople burned her alive and hanged Hansel and Gretel's father. To get rid of Adrianna, Muriel revealed to the townspeople that Adrianna was a witch. She found Adrianna too powerful and decided to use Gretel's heart instead. On the night of the last Blood Moon, Muriel planned to use the heart of a white witch to complete her potion. She reveals that Hansel and Gretel's mother was a grand white witch named Adrianna who married a farmer. Muriel appears in front of them, telling them the truth of their past. Hansel and Gretel reunite at an abandoned cabin, which they discover is both a witch's lair and their childhood home. Edward tends Gretel's wounds and tells her that he helped her because trolls serve witches. The men capture and beat Gretel before being stopped by Edward, who kills the sheriff and his men. ![]() Gretel searches for Hansel in the forest but is attacked by Sheriff Berringer and his posse. She takes him to a nearby spring where she heals his wounds and makes love to him. The next morning, Hansel is found hanging from a tree by Mina. Hansel grabs onto one witch's broomstick, but falls and is lost in the forest. Gretel is rescued by Ben, a local teenager who is a fan of theirs and plans to be a witch hunter himself. Muriel kills Jackson and launches Gretel out a window, rendering her unconscious. Muriel, accompanied by her witches and a troll servant named Edward, attack the town and abduct the final child. They discover that Muriel is preparing for the coming Blood Moon, where she plan to sacrifice twelve children in order to grant the witches an immunity to their weakness, fire. Hansel and Gretel, along with the mayor's deputy Jackson, capture one of Muriel's witches and interrogate her. All but one of the sheriff's party are killed that night by the powerful grand witch Muriel, who sends one man back to the town tavern as a warning to the locals. Berringer hires other hunters for the same mission in the hopes of disgracing the mayor and cementing his power. Mayor Englemann tells the crowd that he has hired the siblings to rescue several children who were presumably abducted by local witches. Hansel and Gretel arrive in the town of Augsburg and immediately prevent Sheriff Berringer from executing a young accused witch named Mina, who Hansel decides is innocent. He needs a shot of insulin every few hours or he will get sick and die. The pair find that they are somehow immune to spells and curses, but the incident in the gingerbread house has left Hansel diabetic. In the fifteen years that follow, Hansel and Gretel become professional witch hunters, famed for seeking out and destroying hundreds of witches. The witch forces Hansel to continuously eat candy while making Gretel prepare the oven, but the siblings outsmart her and she is roasted. ![]() Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a 2013 American-German action-horror comedy film written and directed by Tommy Wirkola.Ībandoned by their father deep in a forest, young Hansel and Gretel enter a gingerbread house and are captured by an old evil witch.
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