Review – Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Wow, does this movie ever spend a lot of time tap dancing around some uncomfortable topics. Almost right from the start the production labors awkwardly to draw lines between its comic book monster hunting and the all too real evil of Europe’s infamous witch hunts. And yet the filmmakers appear not to have learned history’s lessons. The line between “good witches” and “bad witches” here separates young, athletic, conventionally attractive people from goths, loners, the elderly and the physically differently abled. In other words, it’s a lot like the real genocidal crime spree that killed tens of thousands of people. History aside, this is an acceptably entertaining entry in the [familiar figure] versus [random monster] thing. See if desperate