Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2D+3D) [Blu-Ray]

There are too many body parts flying around Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters to single out the tongue that has nearly been gnawed off in the cheek of its clever premise that fairy-tale heroes have grown up into savage supernatural mercenaries. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton strut around like 18th-century Avengers in leather uniforms cursing up a storm of modern vernacular and bearing an inventive array of historically and mechanically impossible weapons such as grenades crossbows tasers machine guns and other weapons of witch-killing mass destruction. It's all a big joke of course and one that the movie wears boldly and without a shred of irony. To quibble with its gaps in narrative logic or be righteously indignant that the script is often a slapdash mess is to miss the point that it's all meant to be a pile of plain old silly fun. After their childhood trauma at the gingerbread house the famous Teutonic siblings are now in the business of killing witches full time hiring themselves o