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The Brothers Grimm [Blu-ray]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: Blu-ray
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Fairy tales come vividly to life in The Brothers Grimm, a long-delayed fantasy/horror comedy that greatly benefits from the ingenuity of director Terry Gilliam. In lesser hands, the ambitious screenplay by prolific horror specialist Ehren Kruger (who wrote the American versions of The Ring and The Ring 2) might have turned into an erratic monster mash like Van Helsing. But Gilliam's maverick sensibility makes the film more closely comparable to Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow and Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves, with the added benefit of impressive CGI effects and lavish (though cost-efficient) production design, making the most of a challenging $75 million budget. Kruger's clever conceit is to turn "folklore collectors" Wilhem and Jacob Grimm (Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, respectively) into 19th-century con artists who perform bogus exorcisms of "evil enchantments" while traveling from village to village in French-occupied Germany. The two soon find themselves ensnared in a genuinely supernatural crisis involving the curse of the Mirror Queen (Monica Bellucci) and such fantastical marvels as the Big Bad Wolf, the Gingerbread Man, and a host of other truly enchanted (and not altogether friendly) flora and fauna. It's kind of a mess, switching from over-the-top humor (mostly from Peter Stormare as a manic villain) to serious fantasy involving the beautiful Angelika (Lena Headey), who proves to be the Grimm Brothers' most reliable ally. And like many of Gilliam's films, Grimm suffered from production delays (during which Gilliam filmed Tideland), distributor fallout, and several changes in its theatrical release date, but none of these issues prevent the film from being a welcomed addition to Gilliam's remarkable list of credits. --Jeff Shannon

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4.0 out of 5 stars Movie Review, Feb 3 2012
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I loved the movie, it was fast paced and kept you glued to the screen. Anyone watching Once Upon A Time or Grimm will love it!!
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars There IS a Prohibited User Operation Ad in This DVD, Jan 21 2006
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This review is from: The Brothers Grimm (DVD)
In response to Allyson's review, the scotch-tape commercial could not be fast-forwarded on my spare (cheapo) DVD player but could be fast-forwarded on my DVD recorder. However, if I fast-forward it to the very end, the ad repeats itself. This ad is admittedly not as evil as the one I came across in Finding Neverland, but it is still definitely what they call a Prohibited User Operation ad.

I encourage everyone to boycott this DVD before all DVDs become infested with PUO commercials (just rent it). I believe this DVD and Finding Neverland are initial tests to see how much advertising crap movie-lovers will put up with. I like movie-previews on DVDs, but scotch-tape ads??

As for the movie, the acting is great and the cinematography excellent, but by the end I felt there was something missing. I'm a great fan of Terry Gilliam's Python movies and Brazil but his emotionally-detached style and his breakneck pacing seems out of place for a script like this. I felt the slapstick should have been toned down a little to let both the brooding atmosphere and the triangular romance between the Brothers and Angelika breathe a little.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Ugh avoid at all costs!, Feb 5 2006
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I couldn't stand the movie OR the DVD.

I wanted to love the movie - the visual elements were fantastic and it had the makings of what could have been one for my favorite movies.

Unfortunately, it has nothing else going for it. The blatant french racism. The characters that make Jar Jar Binks look GOOD in comparason. The bad accents - NONE of which were German - in Germany! The direction was atrocious, the scenes were stitched together by what seemed like a high-school editing staff.

Normally I can accept when a bad movie is bad - but what made me so mad about this movie was that it was so close to being awesome - only to be butchered by the director.

As if that wasn't enough, they make you sit through a Scotch Tape commercial at the beginning of the movie. What a joke - AVOID AT ALL COSTS. If Alliance-Atlantis are going to pull monsterous DVD releases like this in the future, I'll never be buying - OR - renting another one of their movies again.

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