Fresh and Exciting

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Blistering performances.

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.

Even though this is supposedly a historical fiction film, its fantasy undertow drains all of the comic relief into something absolutely stupid. The plot of the story makes no sense and it took me quite some while to figure out who was who in this movie. And to be honest, this is a story about legendary icons of folklore such as Cinderella, Snow White, The Little Red Ridding Hood, etc, but it brought my hopes rapidly down. Another reason being that given Jacob is the oldest boy in the Grimm family after his father died, he would be more likely logical than Wilhelm. Vis-a-vis, Jacob shouldn't be obsessed with magic beans. Also, my hopes were shot down once again when THE ONLY FEMALE LEAD IN THE CAST turned about to be a random girl named Angelika rather than Henriette Dorothea Wild, Wilhelm Grimm's actual wife.So, when all is said and done, don't watch this movie.

While it may not be visionary director Terry Gilliam's best or most popular film it's certainly a winner. Who doesn't love a good fairy tale or two or three.. Visually stunning and featuring two amazing performances from the aptly titled brothers (Damon & Ledger). Good action with well placed humor.

a Terry Gilliam's film. imagination, seductive story, easy to criticize, good actors. the virtue - to rediscover the Grimm's universe from different angle. to be seduced by the puzzle of fragments from fairy stories who saves the not inspired parts. the romanticism and the humor are key for discover a film who, like each from the same director, seems be an experiment. special effects, the dream of Jacob who becomes truth, splendid Monica Bellucci, the Gothic crumbs are pieces who not transforms a nice film in gem but gives a form of entertainment who reminds large parts of childhood. and that is the purpose- to rebuild a lost universe. the adventures, the final, the joy of acting, the errors are , after the last scene, good points for define a trip in heart of fantastic . a not conventional trip, superficial at first sigh, but , like each colorful show, a delight.

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.