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What five words can you still
not believe that you just wrote
as a defense for a movie? “Once the
beanstalk goes up.”
How do things become less muddled
after the beanstalk goes up? Let’s just
say that once the beanstalk goes
up (there it is again), the large
group of characters is whittled
down to just a few, which makes
the proceedings much more enjoyable to watch.

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Why does a beanstalk “go up”
in the first place? Honestly,

it doesn’t matter. If it were possible, I’d recommend that a viewer
start the movie right when the
beanstalk emerges, armed with
the knowledge that (A) there’s a
coveted magic bean that people
seem to want very much that produces giant stalks, (B) giants live
at the top of the stalk and they
are dumb and mean, and (C) a
princess (Eleanor Tomlinson) is
trapped up there and needs to be
rescued from the aforementioned
dumb and mean giants.
Who are the people trying to rescue the
princess? The only three you really
need to worry about are a farm
boy named Jack (Nicholas Hoult),

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Ben Daniels
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Fumm, of
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