He returns home with only a handful of beans given to him by a monk who claimed they ... Soon, the beans take root with a giant stalk carrying away the princess and Jack's house.

But that’s little more than a fondly remembered children’s story for orphaned farmhand Jack (Nicholas Hoult ... and the bean-seller is a fugitive monk, introducing an element of clerical ...

All, save for "Jack the Giant Slayer." If you ever need a good example ... a poor farmhand who trades his horse to a fugitive monk for some magical beans. He brings the mystical legumes home ...

But that’s little more than a fondly remembered children’s story for orphaned farmhand Jack (Nicholas Hoult ... and the bean-seller is a fugitive monk, introducing an element of clerical ...

Fairy tale adaptation Jack the Giant Slayer — the first big-budget event movie of 2013 — is facing soft prerelease tracking as it prepares for its March 1 debut in the shadow of fellow fantasy ...

The monk needs Jack’s horse to make his getaway ... that razzle-dazzle — that would help “Jack the Giant Slayer” transcend into the realm of the spectacular. Still, as popcorn ...

"Jack the Giant Slayer," New Line Home Video ... When Jack (Nicholas Hoult) tries to help a monk, he ends up with the magic beans. When he is carried heavenward with Princess Isabelle (Eleanor ...

At the very least there's a mesmerizing gnarled stalk in Jack the Giant Slayer (* * ½ out of four ... Jack has been given a handful of magic beans by a monk who bought his horse.

After an initial delay (from last summer), Bryan Singer’s fairy tale action-adventure Jack the Giant Slayer has finally ... along to him by a desperate monk and a certain Princess Isabelle ...

Now there's "Jack the Giant Slayer." Kenneth Turan has this review. KENNETH TURAN: Pity poor Jack. There he was minding his own business in some dusty fairytale book when he was dragooned into ...

He returns home with only a handful of beans given to him by a monk who claimed they ... Soon, the beans take root with a giant stalk carrying away the princess and Jack's house.

To make a way too long (115-minute) story short: Jack’s adventure begins when he ventures into town to sell not a cow but a horse and trades it for the legendary legumes to a monk on urgent ...