The Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Movie Is Either the Worst Thing Ever or the Best
I’ve watched the trailer three times now, and I still have no idea. The problem is that I don’t know if the film knows how fucking dumb it is or not; if it has the slightest bit of self-awareness about its ludicrous premise, its godawful story, and insanely awful dialoge, that’s one thing — but if it doesn’t, and it believes its actually a really cool movie about two badass siblings who fight witches with weapons Hugh Jackman’s Van Helsing would find overelaborate, well… fuck. All I know is that there appears to be a witch with a gatling gun. But is that so dumb it’s awesome, or so dumb it shoots right past awesome and ends up dumb again? I have no idea!
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