Okay, here's the rewritten review: Jack the Giant Killer, a 2013 film from The Asylum, has to be better than Jack the Giant Slayer because it includes a mechanical element! It’s wild! The Asylum puts out so many low-budget movies each year; they’re like the B-movie equivalent of Marvel. Right away, I'm wondering why Jack’s guardians are so unpleasant—an older man just trying to keep an old pledge. And it feels …

“Jack the Giant Killer” from The Asylum isn’t a reimagining of the earlier movie but more like what the studio is known for—a quickly made film capitalizing on the buzz surrounding a bigger release with a similar concept, in this case “Jack the Giant Slayer.” Despite sharing a character name and beanstalks that lead to an unusual world above the clouds, these films have very little else in common. This one doesn’t…