The Brothers Grimm (2005)
The Brothers Grimm Videos
The Brothers Grimm Photos
Movie Info
Watch it now
People Who Like this movie also like
Cast
as Wilhelm Grimm
as Jacob Grimm
as Mirror Queen
as Delatombe
as Cavaldi
as Angelika
as Young Will
as Mother Grimm
as Sister Grimm
as Young Jacob
as Gendarmes
as Gendarmes
as German War Veteran
as Stable Boy
as Old Miller
as Mayor
as Miller's Daughter
as Hidlick
as Bunst
as Red Hooded Girl
as Watchman
as Twin Sister
as Twin Sister
as Twins' Father
as Tavern Owner
as Traveler
as Traveler
as Barman
as Bald French Soldier
as Letorc
as Dax
as Delatombe's Valet
as Serving Wench
as Greta
as Hans
as Gregor
as Sasha
as Old Crone
as Minister
as Contemptuous Villager
as Grandmother
as Grizzled Elder
as Angry Woman
as Woodsman
as Young Angelika
as Bishop
as The King
as Angelika's Sister
as Angelika's Sister
as Angelika's Sister
as Angelika's Sister
as Elsie
as Elsie's Mother
as Elsie's Mother
as Goose Girl
as Corpse Queen
as Aide De Camp
as Fat Soldier
as Dumpy Farm Girl
News & Interviews for The Brothers Grimm
Critic Reviews for The Brothers Grimm
All Critics (179) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (111) | DVD (21)
The Brothers Grimm has enough haunting, fairy-tale imagery for 10 movies, but no emotional kick to drive those images home.
It's kind of cold and it's kind of a mess, but I thought it was a glorious mess and it looks so great and it is so interesting and there is so much going on that I have to recommend it on a very mild level.
This time, Gilliam's storytelling is even more convoluted than his bookkeeping.
Jammed with stuff and all but empty of drama.
The best thing to be said about this expensive but drab wannabe mirthmaker is that it has some of its director's quirky touches.
The result is something that might best be called Monty Python and the Holy Mess.
Audience Reviews for The Brothers Grimm
[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] The Brothers Grimm is Terry Gilliam's first film that lacks a surealist personality and a interestingly mind boggling concept. Besides the marvelous visuals and the capable cast, this is a Terry Gilliam move that doesn't feel at all like a Terry Gilliam movie. It feels rather studio structured and is terrified to go to the places Gilliam is screaming for it to go to. He's one of the few artistic film makers working today who understands visuals and depth and if you give him his space he can make something very remarkable. If your going to make a fantasy film with a worthy director you have to allow it to go somewhere, this doesn't. But on a positive note I think the industrialisation of it forgot to enclose Gilliam's signature humour and brilliant changes of tone. There's some good humour in the film, I laughed a few times, I think it will please primarily the popcorn crowd. But if your someone like me, a huge Terry Gilliam fan who admires his ambitions for artsy cinema, this is best avoided.
Super Reviewer
Terry Gilliam gives us this unique congregation of the well known Grimm fairy tales, built around a traveling pair of con artists bilking superstitious country folk who are put to the test when they stumble onto the real thing: an evil witch ( which is sorta like The Blair Witch Project come to think of it - w/o the video cameras). Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, and the always wonderful Peter Stomare head up the spooky proceedings with aplomb.
Super Reviewer
One of the few (if not the only) movie(s) I have walked out of in theaters. The film wants to go many places, but fails to go to any of them. Extremely boring, don't bother.
Super Reviewer
The Brothers Grimm Quotes
| Delatombe: | Bango! |
| Jake Grimm: | It's this way Will! |
| Will Grimm: | No, no, it's not, it's not. It's that way! Grandmother Toad told me! |
| Jake Grimm: | What? |
| Will Grimm: | Trust the toad! |
Discussion Forum
Discuss The Brothers Grimm on our Movie forum!