...a ragged, sloppy patchwork quilt --but there's magic in it. The movie is a compromised, semi-mangled visit to a very special place.
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08/24/05
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The Brothers Grimm (2005)
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Reviews Counted:175
Fresh:65
Rotten:110
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: The Brothers Grimm is full of beautiful imagery, but the story is labored and less than enchanting.
Theatrical Release:Aug 26, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $37,848,537
Synopsis: Director Terry Gilliam, who brought his magical storytelling talents to such films as TIME BANDITS and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, sets his sights on the Brothers Grimm, turning their life... [More]
Starring: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Peter Stormare, Monica Bellucci
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Reviews for The Brothers Grimm
A pinata of visual effects that Gilliam keeps smashing, with diminishing returns.
08/24/05
Top CriticGilliam's film is trapped somewhere between fable and comedy. It's as if he is so entranced by his own visual inventiveness that he completely loses sight of his storytelling.
08/24/05
A movie with a Terry Gilliam look and feel but without a Terry Gilliam soul. (The director) seems to have had his spirit broken by studio mandates and commercial constraints.
08/24/05
A film with all the drama and flair of a Tuesday Morning tchotchke shop.
08/24/05
If only summer movies were, as a matter of course, this inventive, this modest, this interested -- even derisively -- in cultural legacies, this faithful to concept and setting.
08/23/05
Top CriticAnother Gilliam exercise in wretched excess, an orgy of big-budget incoherence more likely to cause appalled astonishment than childish delight.
08/23/05
A departure into more mainstream territory for Gilliam, but maintains the dark humor and wonder that his fans expect
08/23/05
In keeping with the actual Grimm fables, as they were originally published before whitewashing took place, this movie has a lot of horror in it.
08/22/05
[O]ffers us a glimpse at a future where one of our most idiosyncratic directors has been beaten down by the corporate system. Now that’s the making of a Terry Gilliam movie.
08/22/05
Deeply lost in the woods.
08/22/05
Top CriticHugely ambitious but often failing to live up to those ambitions.
08/22/05
Top CriticGilliam transmutes familiar fairy tales . . . into something that is distinctly his own [with] absurdist humor and more than a little social commentary
08/21/05
Surely the brothers Grimm are deserving of a real biopic. This is not just too phantasmagorical to be entertainment, it's incoherent,...an opportunity lost.
08/19/05
A heterogenous conglomeration full of sound and fury signifying you-know-what.
08/17/05
Fails to reinvent its Grimm yarns and only cursorily investigates the relationship between truth and fiction as it rumbles from one farcical scenario to another.
08/15/05
It's been 7 years since Gilliam's last film. It was not worth the wait.
08/14/05
Gilliam has rarely been more inventive, energetic, or just plain funny.
08/11/05
It's Gilliam's chance to run amok, and watching him do it is eye-popping fun.
08/11/05
Top CriticMr. Gilliam has no clear idea what he's doing, so the movie is nothing more than noise, costumes and disjointed special effects that do not make an acceptable substitute for the sense of tempo the rest of the film sorely lacks.
08/11/05
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