Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Sequel Gets The Green Light!!

According to the website ScreenRant and MSN.com, the sequel to Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, got the green light. What made them say YES to a sequel when it only made $18MIL opening weekend? $200MIL worldwide, baby. Even though the states weren't really digging the movie, everyone out of America loved it.

Once the movie hit the $200MIL box office mark, Paramount confirmed that a sequel was in development. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are expected to executive produce once again (under the banner of their Gary Sanchez Productions company), whether Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton will be reprising their roles is left unsaid.

Some think they won't come back and others think they will so we won't know until more information on the sequel comes out. I had mixed feelings when I heard that there was going to be a sequel. At first I thought, why would they make a sequel when the majority of the people who saw it, hated it?

Then I wasn't surprised that they were going to make another one since the movie left the doors open for a sequel to be made. After I had time to think about it, I decided that I'm not disappointed in this news. I didn't hate Hansel & Gretel, I liked it a lot and had a great time watching it. Yes, there were things I think they should of done or done better but it didn't ruin my movie experience and good time.

We have the group of people that were expecting a well-plotted, Tarantino-esque action flick that didn’t bother with romantic subplots or having a ‘message’ that were disappointed and thought it was crap. And we have the group of people that were hoping for little more than a chance to see some witches get slaughtered and Jeremy Renner doing his best leading-man which did enough to make them happy and enjoy the movie. I fall into the last group.

This is what *I* think they should do to make the sequel score at the box office and be better than the first one. They need to slow it down a bit and not make the audience feel rushed and they need to do a better job with the script. Put a little more comedy in it but not too much that it becomes slapstick. Jeremy Renner should do a full frontal, more gore and make it more creepy.

What are your thoughts on the Hansel & Gretel sequel? Yay or Nay?