Reviews for Jack and the Beanstalk

This is one of the weirdest, funniest, scariest movies I have ever watched. I first watched it as a kid, watching it every time I went to my grandparents. I haven't watched it since then, and was recently reminded of it, so I watched it again and wondered what the hell the people were on when they made this!!! Apart from the epic backing music, the storyline is crazy and sometimes you're left watching the screen blankly. I unexpectically still love this movie. It's quite worrying at times but I suggest you watch this seeing as you'll never watch anything else like it!

A feature-length re-telling of the classic fairy tale. But in order to pad it out to a full ninety minutes, this version adds in a few extra characters and an extra sub-plot storyline involving the giant's evil mother, his magically-enchanted betrothed, Jack's dog and a whole bevy of mice. Overall, it's a fair-to-middlin' movie, with a story and animation that is aimed squarely at the pre-teen audience. Even though this is billed as an 'anime' movie, most movies that were created in this time period still had a very heavy Disney influence and did not contain many (ifany) of the normal anime tropes and quirks we are used to from today's anime offerings.

Also, even though this is billed as a "musical", it's actually a bit light on the musical numbers. And nothing really memorable, either.