The Brothers Grimm
Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Peter Stormare
Brothers Jake and Will Grimm, renowned collectors of folklore, have made a career out of traveling from village to village pretending to rid them of "enchanted" creatures. Their bluff is called, howev...( read more
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DVD Released: December 20, 2005
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June 16, 2009"Eliminating Evil Since 1812"
Will and Jake Grimm are travelling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires genuine courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
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June 3, 2009I haven't seen very many of Gilliam's movies, but he is definitely eccentric. He brings a strange sense of humor out of his performers and relishes the darkness of the Grimm tales. This is not supposed to be a history lesson, but the one thing I learned was the time period when... ...( read more )
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December 22, 2008Terry Gilliam once again puts his post modern spin on Gothic fantasy, and once again it's very much a matter of taste as to whether you are going to enjoy it. The Brothers Grimm are reinvented as a pair of con artists who set up fake hauntings and ride into town to banish the dem... ...( read more )
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July 13, 2008One of the coolest and most imaginary and most original action-adventures in years. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are fantastic. They are such an exceptional and enjoyable buddy team with amasing chemistry. Peter Stomare is marvelous. An enchantingly fun good time. Frequently funny... ...( read more )
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June 11, 2008As a Gilliam fan I was pretty disappointed. Has it's moments but lacks so much that doesn't deserve my recommendation. Looks beautiful though.
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July 4, 2009I thought this film was going to be funny. It doesn't have those moments where you chuckle. I did like one scene and it was when Matt Damon mistakes a girl for a boy. The rest is all caught up in it's mystical world of witches, wolves and toads. Not Gilliam's best.
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February 7, 2006
Kurt Loder, MTV
August 29, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate
The Brothers Grimm has enough haunting, fairy-tale imagery for 10 movies, but no emotional kick to drive those images home. full review
August 26, 2005
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Its energy is impressive, but its effects are scattered. full review
August 25, 2005
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
If The Brothers Grimm flies apart like a badly designed airplane (and it does), it still has more going for it than most of the movie fare this summer. full review
August 25, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Brothers Grimm is a work of limitless invention, but it is invention without pattern, chasing itself around the screen without finding a plot. full review
August 15, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
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. full review
August 11, 2005
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
It's Gilliam's chance to run amok, and watching him do it is eye-popping fun. full review
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September 9, 2007I LOVE THIS MOVIE. Other then it being slightly morbid (which was their way) it was so fun to see all the different fairytales combined! I love the shot in the woods with Little Red, and the way her bright hood stood out among the golden leaves! So awesome. Plus, Heath and Matt aren't too horrible to look at throughout the whole film. But it annoyed me how it was never made clear who got with Angelica...??
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May 19, 2007(Aug. 2005) Great Director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python fame!) Some of my favorite all time fairy tale stories.......Heath Ledger & Matt Damon are great as the creative brothers...who bullshit their way through endless "village fears" & encounter horrors of legend! FUNNY, TOUCHING!
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February 10, 2007The film werent bad, but was it just me!
But most of the time i swear Kiera Knightly was in it but then realised it was Lena Headey! she looked alot and sounded alot like her in parts of the film (sorry for bad spelling). -
August 18, 2006Was nothing like i expected, The sham demon hunters are tested when they encounter vivid pieces of well known fairy tales. It is truly like being in some kind of dream, with nothing making much sense, but with it all coming together in the end.
Justins Best Bit: The big bad wolf.
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