Story: A re-imagined story from a classic tale of Jack and The Beanstalk.
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| Giant Posters courtesy of Warner Bros. |
Review:
No child I know especially those who grew up before the digital age
that are not familiar with the story. There were already many variations
of the story like the familiar Disney version where Mickey Mouse played
the role of Jack.
There
were also new twists about the folktale. In television, Hallmark
Entertainment a mini-series showing the descendant of Jack in the modern
world in trial for what his ancestor did. In comics, there's a series
of graphic novels about Jack of Fables.
But
there is one fact that is true. This folktale is of English origin
because of the giant's line, "Fee-Fi-Foe-Fum! I smell the blood of an
Englishman." Another fact about the folktale was that there is always a
moral lesson. Jack was not really heroic in the original story. He was
just a kid who was easily told that he was sold magic beans. Regardless
its magic or not, only...
A New Line Cinema presentation
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