There were only three new releases to chart on the June 30th, 2013 edition of the Blu-ray sales chart, but all three of them reached the top ten. Despicable Me rose to first place with 196,000 units / $2.19 million for the week for totals of 8.96 million units / $147.10 million.īlu-ray Sales: Holdovers Slay New Releases The new releases were terrible this week with only two of them reaching the top 30 and none of them reached the top 5 on the July 7th, 2013 DVD sales chart. This puts it just outside of the top 20 on the All-Time Blu-ray Chart, and it has already made it there as of the writing of this column. Leading the way was Despicable Me with 88,000 units / $1.23 million for the week and 2.35 million units / $58.37 million after more than two-and-a-half years of release. New releases were even worse on the July 7th, 2013 edition of the Blu-ray sales chart than they were on the DVD sales chart. The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.īlu-ray Sales: Despicable Has Virtuous Result Production and Technical Credits Bryan Singer New Line Cinema, Legendary Pictures, Original Film, Big Kid Pictures, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Bryan Singerįor a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary. Prince/Princess, Rescue, Giants, Visual Effects, 3-D, Motion Capture Performance, IMAX: DMR, Filmed in Puzzlewood, Gloucestershire, England, Filmed in Gloucestershire, England, Filmed in England, Filmed in United Kingdom PG-13 for intense scenes of fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief language. See the Box Office tab (Domestic) and International tab (International and Worldwide) for more Cumulative Box Office Records.įebruary 28th, 2013 (Wide) ( Philippines) Children may find this film amusing, thanks to the art direction and story-telling style.All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,301-1,400)Īll Time International Box Office (Rank 701-800)Īll Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 801-900) The 3D is lacklustre and the SFX unable to salvage the uninteresting script. An elongated tug-of-war scene between the humans and giants does not qualify for an epic battle scene and that's the biggest drawback. The film is painfully predictable and the romance awfully sweet. Jack, the hero, seems inexcusably dumb while you wonder what Ewan McGregor is doing in this soul-less film! CGI giants which are supposed to be the USP of the film seem caricaturish and one-dimensional. The films have been unable to recreate the magic of the classic fables.īryan Singer, who has made films like X-Men and Valkyrie, finds it difficult to keep the audience engaged, let alone be entertained. Be it Snow White and the Huntsman, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and now Jack the Giant Slayer which has borrowed elements from both Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk. In order to rescue the princess, her conniving would-be groom Roderick (Stanley Tucci), love-struck Jack and the king's brave knight Elmont (Ewan McGregor) decide to face the giants, thus reigniting an ancient war.Īdapting a classic fairytale into a feature film still seems like a distant dream, considering most of the recent attempts have been mediocre. The beanstalk leads to the land of the giants. It erupts into a gigantic beanstalk which reaches to the sky, taking Jack's house and Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) along with it. Jack accidentally drops one of the beans. Review: A monk gives farm boy Jack (Nicholas Hoult) some magical beans in exchange for his horse. Story: War between giants and humans is reignited when a farm boy accidentally drops the magic beans he's been given by a mysterious monk.
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