Best movie ever!

The first must-see film of the year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This film is based on the tales of the Grimm Brothers, but also makes a completely fictional portrayal of the brothers who, in real life, were German poets, scholars and linguists, who dedicated themselves to collecting traditional fables from the center of Europe. So the first step in understanding the film is to realize, from the outset, that its pure fiction, based on the mere existence of these two brothers. Here, they're two gamblers, who make money cheating the villagers, casting out witches and demons that don't exist. So their first reaction, when they're called upon to investigate a truly magical phenomenon in which several girls have disappeared, is of disbelief, thinking that they're dealing with an elaborate scold.The screenplay is clever, in the way it approaches Grimm's fairy tales and rebuilds them, but it lost from the middle, with some ideas and options looking absurd. Equally positive was the performance of Matt Damon and Heath Ledger in the lead roles. The two actors are versatile, strong and worked well together. However, the same cannot be said of Lena Headey, who seemed to me a bit artificial and cliché. Peter Stormare is the most humorous actor and the most remarkable moments of humor are made by his character, an Italian torturer at the service of Napoleonic officials. Jonathan Pryce is the French general and was perfectly capable of becoming contemptible. Good costumes and sets, clever cinematography, good use of colors and light and shadow games make the film visually appealing and beautiful.So, this movie is good and has several quality values. But the flaws in the story, the several moments when the plot is lost and becomes idiotic, overturn the attempts of this film to become truly iconic.

This was without a doubt an interesting spin on the story of The Grimm brothers with the added quirks and usual strangeness produced by Terry Gilliam. The movie is basically a fictional fantasy about Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm who were two real life brothers that brought nearly every fairytale that we know out of the folklore of nations and into popular knowledge during the 1800's. The film had a lot of big names like Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Peter Stormare, Jonathan Pryce (a Gilliam favorite from Brazil), Monica Bellucci, and Lena Headey. With that being said though, this was not a big movie. While the characters and bizarreness kept it somewhat entertaining, the film overall was a mess. With some unexplainable happenings and undecipherable dialogue a lot of the movie seemed to be in a state of confusion and mass chaos. Let's not even mention the graphics and effects. This movie is currently ten years old (which is hard to believe) and obviously cgi and other technologies have been drastically improved, but I think these are awful for the time period (even without considering aging). The quality was not even close to other Terry Gilliam films I have seen and it was quite disappointing.

It's very difficult to replicate the magic of a Terry Gilliam film, getting right that elusive mixture of perversity, whimsy, jet-black humor, and spectacular visual design.It's even difficult if you happen to be Terry Gilliam.In the height of the Napoleonic Era, brothers Wilhelm (Matt Damon) and Jakob (Heath Ledger) Grimm make a shady living off the superstitions of their fellow Germans. Then French occupiers press them into service to discover who is stirring up spooky trouble in the dark forests around the town of Marbaden. The Grimms figure it must be a rival group of hoaxers, and, under duress, take on the job of exposing them. The job proves more than they expect."The Brothers Grimm" is clearly a callback for Gilliam, working in the same comedy-fantasy niche he created with "Time Bandits" and "The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen." But his inventiveness and humor are missing. Instead of inventiveness, there are a lot of over-the-top sequences barely connected to the central story involving bad CGI. Instead of humor, you have people falling down a lot and the Grimms being shown up as bunglers at every turn.Told the "strapping young lad" he has been complementing is in fact a girl, Wilhelm gulps and adds: "And a fine young wife he'll make some lucky man."Both Ledger and Peter Stormare as an Italian torture expert suffer from extreme overacting. Ledger plays his character with much eye- twitching and spectacles-adjusting, as well as a stammer reminiscent of Ratso Rizzo. Stormare seems to be channeling Timothy Carey with his constant eruptions and wild stares. After not very long they become extremely distracting.On another planet is Lena Headey as the love interest, who being the main female in this predictable film sees right through the Grimms and tries to make them appreciate the true gravity of their situation. She plays her role with a grim naturalism that keeps fantasy at bay whenever she's on screen.It's definitely a Gilliam film. You have the cynicism up front ("It's a short brutish struggle and then you die," Wilhelm says. "Life's little subterfuges make it all worthwhile.") Cute characters are introduced in order to die horribly. What can you say about a comedy where the funniest scene involves a kitten being disintegrated? Certainly that's got Gilliam all over it.But the kitten scene isn't all that funny, and neither is anything else. The script seems to treat comedy as an afterthought, while using the Grimm fairy tales the same way "Time Bandits" used history, as the basis for various set-pieces. Yet the connections this time are witless and convoluted.You see a girl walking through the forest with a bright red cape, and think "OK, it's Little Red Riding Hood." But before anything else happens, she gets abducted and that's the end of her story. Or another little girl named Gretel walks through the forest with her brother, and is abducted. The most ridiculous of these is when a girl suddenly loses her entire face and is then abducted by a monster from a well. "You can't catch me because I'm the gingerbread man!" is the last thing we hear, referencing another fairy tale, albeit not one from the Brothers Grimm.Basically, the story doesn't need the fairy-tale dressings at all, it's just a parade of child abductions leading to an overbaked and nonsensical conclusion. But Gilliam and his team apparently needed the excuse to show off their CGI. They aren't good effects at all; ten years later you can see how poorly they were processed.One thing Ledger said in a supplemental feature sticks with me: "None of us would be here if it wasn't for Terry." The only reason "Brothers Grimm" got made was to give Gilliam something to do; this time it wasn't reason enough.

Everything was good until they started to play Vivaldi, and then a little cat appeared, I thought, ohh no, this can't be happening, and it did. They slaughtered the kitten, it is obvious that the kitten was not harmed in real life, it was all made by digital effects, then who cares? It was just made to be funny, but what sickens me is the whole idea of making fun of such vile act, killing for fun an animal is NEVER a fun topic, it should not be, and the only thing that that scenes makes, is to encourage people to keep thinking animal abuse is something to laugh about, I really detested this movie for such stupid idea of fun, and anyone making fun of it should think of the background behind the act.