Critics Call 'Hansel and Gretel' "Adequate" and an "R-Rated Splatterfest"
If you're into gore and F-bombs, this movie about a brother and sister team exterminating anything in a pointed hat could be for you.
A poor woodcutter and his wife abandon the starving brother and sister in the woods, the children stumble upon a house made of sweets; the witch who lives there tries to eat them; they burn her alive in her own oven. Laden with the witch's treasure, they return home to their now-widowed father, with whom they live happily ever after. The Hansel and Gretel story from the Brothers Grimm is familiar to American as well as German children. "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" movie picks up where the original left off. The brother and sister pair are 20-something witch bounty hunters. You find 'em, we grind 'em, could be their motto--they use all kinds of witch-killing weapons the Brothers Grimm could never have imagined. When H & G arrive in …
