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| Director
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Terry Gilliam
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| Starring
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Matt Damon
Heath Ledger
Monica Bellucci |
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| The plot of
The
Brothers Grimm |
Folklore
collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm
travel from village to village pretending to protect
townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing
exorcisms. They are put to the test, however,
when they encounter a real magical curse in a
haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring
genuine courage. |
The Brothers
Grimm Movie Review
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Reviewed by
Jason Anderson:
After a production history that was troubled even by
Terry Gilliam's standards, The Brothers Grimm arrives
looking worse for wear but still sufficiently deranged
to be good fun. The director's fondness for grotesqueries
makes him a good fit with the fairy-tale milieu of Ehren
Kruger's script, which recasts the storytellers of renown
as rube-duping charlatans in 19th-century Germany......more..
Review By Tim
Knight:
Once upon a time, there was a filmmaker by the name
of Terry Gilliam, who was known throughout the land
as a cinematic wizard. His surreal, wondrous flights
of fantasy enchanted moviegoers and critics everywhere.
But alas, even a master fantasist of his daring vision
and whimsical humor cannot turn a frog of a script into
a prince of a film. And so we have the unsatisfying
tale of The Brothers Grimm. While it occasionally dazzles
the eye and tickles the funny bone, Gilliam's frustratingly
uneven saga of the 19th century fairytale collectors
does not end happily ever after—at least for the
viewers who fell under the spell of Gilliam's best films,
Brazil and 12 Monkeys.....More..
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