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| The two sexy young male stars look piercingly at you with their female co-star reduced to pintsize between them on this dark and adventure-promising poster for Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm |
The
Grimm brothers are con artists in
French-occupied Germany in the beginning of the 19th century, where
they become involved in a fairy tale similar to the fantastical tales they wrote in
actuality.
The Brothers Grimm is written by Ehren Kruger (The Ring (2002)) and directed by Minnesotan master filmmaker Terry Gilliam (Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)), whose 9th feature it is. It is based very loosely on the actual German fairytale writers, the Grimm brothers.
The film comes off as an adventure action comedy packed with effects, gags and Monty Python-style crazy comedy. Regrettably, it is not very funny, but it has a high pace and fantastic sets, (with almost everything filmed in Prague), so by and by it still becomes a mostly entertaining movie. The film is wanting a John Williams-league composer, which it doesn't have, and Gilliam refrains from the really big shots that we enjoy in similar adventure films from Peter Jackson or Steven Spielberg. Instead, what Gilliam goes for are the wacky, inventive and psychedelic elements, and these are certainly here. The man's very production-minded and visually striking style arguably gets out of hand here
The actors do what they can without being decidedly good or bad. Memorable nevertheless are Peter Stormare (The Big Lebowski (1998)) in a theatrical, gaga torturer part and Monica Bellucci (Malèna (2000)), who is well-cast as the irresistible, evil witch.
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