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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.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US 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
...darkly amusing, often entertaining and overwhelmingly bizarre. Ultimately, the film gets bogged down in its own adventurous aspirations, although it looks a treat with splendid production design and fantastic effects.
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Top CriticMagical! Wonderful! Gorgeous! Enchantment comes to life.
Grimm is Disappointing, Shallow, Bland and most of all Boring!
Grim
In the midst of all this pandemonium, moments of Gilliam's awe-inspiring vision swirl around like the black crows and dead leaves that pepper the film's woodsy fabric.
It's often funny, its texture can be breathtaking and its pleasures likely will grow with repeated viewings.
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.
Grimms go Hollywood.Gilliam caves in to maudlin filmmaking.
It’s easy to sense the allure this fantastic project held for Gilliam, but it’s hard to imagine the outcome is anything like his early expectations.
The monster melees aren't just means to a digital dead end but a wish-fulfillment celebration of the triumph of artists and fabulists over despots and militarists.
Just because it's accessible doesn't mean it's not clearly Gilliam.
Sometimes delightful, sometimes tedious, always creative.
The only redeeming feature is the hope that [director Terry Gilliam's] salary from The Brothers Grimm,/i> will help him set up a good, old-fashioned Gilliam film, in the tradition of his excellent early work.
everyone involved in the production appears to have become lost in the dark woods, hoping somehow to find their way out with an incoherent trail of compromises.
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.
It's obvious Gilliam was reigned in a tad...perhaps the big-bad studio had a bit of fear and loathing...
It's worth watching even when it doesn't.
Gilliam is a film artist with a grand and copious vision that he incorporates into every frame of every film like a potion.
there's not one time where it doesn’t seem like Gilliam is making horror movies with paint by numbers
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