When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Eun-soo finally discovers a way out which is written on a fairy tale book. But the book tells a story of none other than himself!
It's inconsistent: too predictable and simplistic for adults, too disturbing and bloody for their offspring. It's hard to know who it's for.
– Tom Huddlestone,
Time Out,
16 Jan 2009
rotten:
It is a film that is just good enough to keep you hanging around to the end, at which point you leave the theatre feeling vaguely let down.
– Stephen Cole,
Globe and Mail,
27 Mar 2009
fresh:
Hardly innovative, but effective and handsomely produced, Hansel & Gretel puts the "grim" in Grimm while placing South Korean director Yim Phil-sung on the shortlist of Pan's Labyrinth emulators to trust.