The Brothers Grimm (2005)

Brothers Grimm
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Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)
Studio: Dimension Films
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Aug 26, 2005
Running Time: 118 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: Czech Republic
synopsis
Legendary fairytale scribes, brothers Will and Jake Grimm, travel around the Napoleonic countryside vanquishing monsters and demons in exchange for quick money. But when the French authorities figure out their scheme, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse when they enter an enchanted forest where young maidens keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
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Wilhelm Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Cavaldi
Angelika
General Delatombe
Woodsman
Letorc
Hidlick
The Mirror Queen
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After falling off his horse chasing windmills with The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Terry Gilliam limps into the director's chair to tackle a fictionalized tale about famed storytellers, the Brothers Grimm. The result is a surprisingly dull and lifeless film not worthy of the Gilliam cannon.

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Brothers Will and Jake Grimm make a killing saving superstitious villagers in French-occupied Germany from imaginary witches, demons and other supernatural pests. Though Will (Matt Damon) relishes the… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - August 11, 2005
Terry Gilliam rarely has it easy making movies. Whether its his unfinished Don Quixote or the brilliant Brazil, the suits always want him to change things. The Brothers Grimm, with the shots called by the brothers Weinstein, is no exception. The $80 million biopic, starring Matt Damon as the skeptical Will Grimm and Heath Ledger as his susceptible brother Jacob, is so loosely based on the nineteenth-century German siblings who wrote Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood and other famously… Continued