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In his eighth fantasy novel, the author of Moonheart and Yarrow turns the stories of "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Jack and the Bean Stalk" into a contemporary tale set in Ottawa. Jacky Rowan's boyfriend of three months has just dumped her because she has begun to bore him. Feeling empty, confused and rejected, Jacky meets Dunrobin Finn, a gnome who introduces her to a parallel reality, Faerie, which she can see and enter into by wearing a magic red cap. Having recently witnessed the murder of a gnome by evil bikers, Jacky's meeting with Finn inspires her with the renewed vitality to embark upon a quest to save the daughter of a Laird of Kinrowan, who is being held in a Giant's Keep. Jacky's best friend, Kate Hazel, agrees (at first skeptically) to help her. The pair flee and tackle all manner of bikers and "bogans" (evil entities that look like winos in non-Faerie reality), and Jacky finds a replacement for her wayward love in Eilian, the hunkish son of a Laird of Dunlogan. Unfortunately, de Lint gives more weight to fantasy arcana than to more accessible universals, undercutting the potential "cross-over" appeal of this otherwise readable tale.
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5.0�toiles sur 5 License to Kill, Mai 21 2009

Par	A. N. Gagnon (Kearns, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Licence to Kill (Widescreen) (DVD)

Excellent film! High graphic specially when playing on a blueray DVD player. High quality! Great film for a bond movie.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 Generally sharp DVD, Mai 3 2004

Par	Icepick "sir-critic" (Castroville, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Jack The Giant Killer (DVD)

The DVD is free of blemishes and is quite colorful; however, some images are pale, no doubt due to the aging of the original materials. This is especially apparent in composite shots where the models look bright but the backgrounds don't. Probably the best this film is going to look.

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2.0�toiles sur 5 Poor Man's Harryhausen Film, Mars 3 2004

Par	John Gentile (Hoboken, NJ) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Jack The Giant Killer (DVD)

I don't mean to berate the great Jim Danforth, but this is an extremely low budget rip-off of The 7TH Voyage of Sinbad. The legend is that producer Edward Small turned down Harryhausen's pitch for 7th Voyage. Ray went to Columbia, and the finished product was a huge hit, making 12 mill in America alone in 1958!!
Small probably kicked himself a few times, and decided to make an exact duplicate of the film at MGM. He hired the same director (Nathan Juran) and same stars (Kerwin Mathews and Torin Thatcher).Unfortunately, the animation models were not of the quality of Sinbad, and the stop motion is rushed (Small had a very tight budget. The result is a fun film for kids, but fantasy film fanatics do not regard this as a classic. Jack (Mathews) must rescue a possessed Princess from an evil sorcerer who wants to take over the Kingdom.
Columbia actually sued Small for ripping off Sinbad, and the film remained in limbo for many years. In the late 80's, MGM turned the movie into a musical!!!!!! They dubbed over dialogue and made it look like the characters are singing! This version was shown on the Disney channel for a few years, and it is a sight to behold. In the mid ninties, MGM restored the film for a VHS release, and now the "widescreen" DVD. There is some controversy regarding the films original aspect ratio (see stopmotionanimation.com).
Kids will enjoy, but stop motion fans regard this film as a footnote in history.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 We have failed master, we have failed.
I grew up and loved the musical version of this film as shown on the disney channel. I was disappointed to learn that only the dry and humorless version has been released on dvd... Read more

Publi� le Janv. 4 2004 par uncle-tickles

1.0�toiles sur 5 Sadly this is not the horrifically wonderful Musical version
The obviously over-dubbed musical numbers which elevate this film into a comedy classic are sadly missing from this DVD version. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 4 2004 par cecil-kleakins

1.0�toiles sur 5 The non-musical version is godawful
I am a huge fan of the musical version of this film. It is so deliciously bad that it completely won me over... Read more

Publi� le Nov. 29 2003 par Matthew

4.0�toiles sur 5 MATINEE MADNESS RETURNS
God bless Kerwin Mathews. Not really all that great an actor, his dashing looks and his sincerity were the foundation for a series of wonderful "fantasy" films of the... Read more

Publi� le Nov. 16 2003 par Michael Butts