Within the first half hour of Jack The Giant Slayer's beginning, you have a friar being interrogated and being asked to "spill the beans", because, you know, they're trying to get the magic beans from him. Well, this is just one of the many moments in Jack The Giant Slayer when you laugh because you don't know what else to do.
The recent crop (yeah, we just did that) of fairytale-adaptations just barely even try going beyond the formula, all the while pretending give us a new perspective on tales that fed our childhood. Jack The Giant Slayer, though, is honest. It is all about a....