The script sets up the situation and characters nicely, and the actors are terrific.
Critic Score: 3/4

While it's fine for a director to explore his childhood inspirations, you hope he would bring something a bit more personal to it.
Critic Score: 2/4

Not awful, not wonderful, Jack the Giant Slayer is a midrange fairy tale epic that's a lot more ho-hum than fee-fi-fo-fum.
Critic Score: C+

The movie feels so much like a video game that your fingers instinctively itch to do something, though a Jack video game isn't one we'd really want to play.

It's fast paced, energetic, and enormously likeable.
Critic Score: 3/4

There may never have been a Jack tale that delivered so little pleasure for so many dollars as what we have here.
Critic Score: 1/5

Jack's problem is that he's a commoner, but the movie's problem is that its script is commoner still, an enchantment-free pretext for animated action, straight-ahead storytelling and ersatz romance.

There's more to this Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation than Fee-fi-fo-fum.
Critic Score: 2.5/4

This finally is just a digitally souped-up, one-dimensional take on "Jack and the Beanstalk," capped by the kind of interminable blowout that makes many big-studio entertainments feel as long as the last Oscars.
Critic Score: 2.5/5

This digitally tricked-out fairy tale makes for a reasonably engaging kids' fantasy, but at best we're talking about a junior varsity "Lord of the Rings."
Critic Score: 2.5/4

Big and loud and so bland it kinda feels like we've been sold a bill of goods.
Critic Score: 2/5

The director, Bryan Singer, works more anonymously here than he did in the X-Men films. Jack the Giant Slayer feels like it could have been made by anyone.
Critic Score: C+

It's stuck in a big-budget-movie middle ground - not quite thrilling enough to be an action movie, not quite funny enough for a comedy - and, once you've pondered the impressive size of the beanstalk, there's not much else there.
Critic Score: 2.5/4

The action is a little too intense for very young children. But for everyone else, including cynical grown-up critics who didn't think they'd ever give a Fee, a Fi, a Fo or a Fum about this movie, it's a terrific adventure.
Critic Score: 3.5/4

The film is like a big Disneyland ride, full of wonder and myth.
Critic Score: 4/5

Fee-fi-fo-fum, this fairy-tale retread is pretty dumb.

Singer evokes another era of fantasy filmmaking when the illusions before our eyes were created in an artist's studio rather than a computer lab. It's more Jason and the Argonauts than Shia and the Transformers.