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.
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08/25/05
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
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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
Reviews for The Brothers Grimm
141 - 160 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Despite a few early sparks of promise, The Brothers Grimm sputters and coughs along like an unoiled machine, grinding gears and nerves in equal measure.
08/25/05
Top CriticDirector Terry Gilliam's strong visual sense is ideally suited to this material, and he and his special-effects crew have cooked up some dandy images. Still, the moral of this story is that sometimes slick pictures alone aren't enough.
08/25/05
Although Gilliam does bend The Brothers Grimm to his surreal and absurdist will, watching it is little like searching for pearls in pig flop.
08/25/05
Although Gilliam has always had a taste for the outre, he has allowed it to get out of hand here and swallow the picture whole.
08/25/05
Top CriticThere is magic in The Brothers Grimm but it's hard to locate amid all the … 'stuff,' I believe is the technical phrase.
08/25/05
Easy to recommend but hard to love, distinguished by Gilliam’s extravagant and funny style, but compromised by creative warfare and budgetary limitations.
08/25/05
Heath Ledger gets better with every role, and the chance to inhabit a socially maladjusted introvert like Jacob has resulted in his most winning portrayal to date.
08/25/05
There may be a credible film in here somewhere, but it sorely needs a fully functioning director to pull it out.
08/25/05
It's a muddle, but it's a Terry Gilliam muddle -- and there's nothing like his muddles anywhere in our uptight, color-within-the-lines mainstream.
08/25/05
It's obvious Gilliam was reigned in a tad...perhaps the big-bad studio had a bit of fear and loathing...
08/25/05
This is one of the most visually off-putting films ever made by a director who supposedly makes beautiful pictures.
08/25/05
The CGI is absolute crap. It looks like it was just pasted on. And I don’t mean paste like the cut and paste tool on computers. I mean Elmer’s.
08/25/05
Audiences other than preteens will be sorely disappointed at Gilliam’s over-massaged vision of a tediously gimmicky script.
08/25/05
The Brothers Grimm is a work of limitless invention, but it is invention without pattern, chasing itself around the screen without finding a plot.
08/25/05
Top CriticA fractured fairy tale that's both too grim and not Grimm enough.
08/25/05
`The Brothers Grimm' isn't for children but for adults who want to relive the bedroom tales of their childhood.
08/25/05
The movie makes you yearn for the innocent times that Junior learned about kinky sex from playground stories or late-night Cinemax rather than summer kids' flicks.
08/25/05
Not bad, but certainly not Gilliam at the top of his game.
08/25/05
It might be Gilliam's worst movie, but it's still okay.
08/25/05
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