Watch out ladies. Nicholas Hoult is back and this time is he isn’t part of the undead. His name is Jack in the new movie “Jack the Giant Slayer.” Remember those old fairy tales your parents use to read to you at night? You know like “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel?” Well it seems the film industry is taking a new approach to the Grimm fairy tales in this new movie.

As the film begins, young Jack is in bed reading his miniature story about the giants that used to roam the world, until the monks put an end to it. The amazing graphics and animation techniques used were phenomenal. As Jack’s father is reading the story, the animation begins depicting the giants terrorizing the village and killing villagers and anything in their path.

They were able to come to the human world due to the magic beans that the monks made in order to explore the heavens. When the giant bean stalk grew and the monks reached the top, the giants came roaring down. That’s when the monks killed one of the giants and took the heart in order to make a crown. They melted the blood of the heart into a crown to give to King Erik who was ruling the village at the time. The crown was powerful enough to order the giants back to their home between the heavens, and the bean stalk was chopped down. The crown was buried with the king along with the magic beans and were never seen again.

This whole miniature version of the story is told through animated graphics and completely grabs the audience’s attention. Then reality sets in and 18 year old Jack appears, ready to sell his family horse in the market. Bryan Singer did a great job filming this 3D, action-packed adventure. While watching this film, I really felt as if the giant was going to come after me and pummel me to death. Jack’s character really shines a new light on Hoult’s acting from a zombie to a farm boy. His English accent throughout the movie really worked for him as he played the helpless farm boy.

While he is off in the market selling his horse he gets distracted and heads into a carnival tent. There he finds a performance of the tale he used to hear when he was little. In the tent, he notices a beautiful girl standing a few feet away from him getting harassed by drunks and he steps in to defend her. This fails epically as he gets punched in the face before he can tell the drunks to back off. As he regains consciousness, he begins to talk about how he will fight with anybody who messes with her and that’s when everybody in the tent bows down. He doesn’t completely understand what is going on until he turns around and finds the princess ‘royal guards, and realizes he was defending Princess Isabel, (Eleanor Thompson).

There is a perfect amount of action, drama and comical humor from Jack as the story is being told. Get the full impact of Jack’s new adventure as he tries to save Isabel from the horrendous giants in “Jack the Giant Slayer.”