The beans are handed off to Jack, but we don't really know why, only that it's important. We get many dead giants, actually, and we don't really care about any of them, dead or alive. Nor are we given that great moment at the end when the betrayer gets what's coming to him. We're never given that great moment where we, the audience, is also betrayed and aghast. We're never surprised by his atrocities or betrayals. We know instantly that Roderick is a Very Bad Guy. The Roderick set-up could have been so much better and so much more prolonged than it was. There's nothing surprising or satisfying about a giant warlord good drama comes from the betrayal and brutality of recognizable characters. They may not be actual humans, but their humanity, blackened and bruised though it may be, sheds light and darkness on our own. The thing about good fantasy is that the true monsters and the true villains are always the most human. It's a great monster, but not a great villain. Unfortunately, Singer wants us to think the real villains are the giants themselves, so he conveniently kills off Roderick in the Second Act, leaving us with a big, snarling, two-headed behemoth as our nemesis. It wants us to think that the giants are the real enemies, but they're just pawns of the true villain, Roderick (Stanley Tucci) the right-hand man to the king (and, quite bafflingly, the man promised the hand of the princess-is he supposed to be Jafar?)
Worse, the movie gets the villains all mixed up. But there's not enough fairy tale magic here to justify fairy tale neatness. Maybe that's how fairy tales are: neat and tidy, and the boy always gets the girl. Why are the people in this magical kingdom so clean all the time? Why do these farmers read so well? Why, in the end, is this modern take on a fairy tale so utterly devoid of any modern sensibilities? Why is the king (Ian McShane, all dressed in gold) so hard and then so inexplicably soft? Why does Jack get the girl? Why does it all have to be so bloody neat and tidy? Other little details or lack of detail bothered me as well.
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