The Brothers Grimm

Name: The Brothers Grimm
Director: Terry Gilliam
Released: 2005

Terry Gilliam

2005

Synopsis

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

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Matt DamonWilhelm Grimm
Heath LedgerJacob Grimm
Lena HeadeyAngelika
Peter StormareCavaldi
Monica BellucciMirror Queen
Mackenzie CrookHidlick
Roger Ashton-GriffithsMayor
Jonathan PryceDelatombe
Richard RidingsBunst
Barbara LukešováMother Grimm

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100
Christian Science Monitor
Gilliam has rarely been more inventive, energetic, or just plain funny.
80
Village Voice
Just as fabulously cartoon-Gothic as "Sleepy Hollow."
75
Rolling Stone
If you're a Gilliam junkie, as I am, you go with it, even when the script by Ehren Kruger (The Skeleton Key) loses its shaky hold on coherence.
75
Premiere
In the end it's still Gilliam Lite, but Gilliam Lite is better than no Gilliam at all.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
Hugely ambitious but often failing to live up to those ambitions, Terry Gilliam's long-awaited The Brothers Grimm emerges as a folkloric adventure that intermittently entertains.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Strenous yet flat, The Brothers Grimm is a let's-see-what-sticks spectacle that, coming from Terry Gilliam, is more grim than "Grimm."
50
Variety
The tilt here toward a hyperactive, buddy-movie action-adventure with loud comic archetypes is a poor fit for a film that relies on fairy tale icons and themes.
50
The A.V. Club
The Brothers Grimm reeks of compromise, of a brilliant fantasist losing his footing and nerve and getting hopelessly gummed up in the cruel machinery of big-budget blockbuster filmmaking.

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