The Brothers Grimm

1/12/2023

Does it deserve 10 stars? No, but I look at this as a thumbs up or thumbs down thing, and it's getting thumbs up, sooo...disclaimer there. I really liked this and I accept that I am in the minority. It has the Terry Gilliam comedic feel to it and it has the Terry Gilliam acid trip feel to it... and even at it's worst that is still absolutely entertaining and a pure joy to watch. Someone mentioned wide angle work before and, yes, it has a lot of that wide angle close-up work that can only really be appreciated by people that thought they could out Thompson Hunter Thompson in their youth... wink wink nudge nudge, if you know what I mean. The only real draw back is that Damon doesn't seem to fit in his role, and he doesn't really seem to fit in a Gilliam film...but surprisingly Ledge

8/12/2024

Well it is a Terry Gilliam film so was always going to be a bit eccentric - but the idea that the legendary Brothers Grimm were actually grifters was actually quite an fun one. Assemble a couple of A-listers and we should have been flying. Except, well - we are not. Instead of having some amiable horseplay as they fleece the gullible and the unwitting, we find "Jake" (Heath Legder) and "Will" (Matt Damon) in a village where the children have all gone missing. The local grandee "Gen. Delatombe" (Jonathan Pryce) is on to their scamming and decides it's time to get them to prove their worth. Where are the sprogs? Well to save their necks, the not so dynamic duo have to deal with a seriously malevolent and fantastic foe in the "Mirror Queen" (the sparingly used Monica Bellucci) who wants to ta

10/13/2026

**Score: 7/10 A Flawed But Fascinating Gilliam Curiosity That Deserves a Second Look** It's not Gilliam's best work, but it does get a bum wrap \[that is not entirely deserved\]. *The Brothers Grimm* arrives with all the ingredients of a Terry Gilliam masterpiece a fantastical premise, a rich historical backdrop, a cast of eccentric characters, and a director known for his singular visual imagination. What emerges is a messy, uneven, but genuinely entertaining film that deserves more credit than it's been given. **The Premise: Fairy Tales Meet Historical Fantasy** The film reimagines Wilhelm (Matt Damon) and Jacob Grimm (Heath Ledger) as con artists in early 19th-century French-occupied Germany. The brothers travel from town to town, fabricating supernatural encounters and "exor