Alan Smithee Esq. 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.

Kirpianuscus 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.

RbDeraj 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.

SnoopyStyle It's 1811 in French occupied Germany. Will (Matt Damon) and Jacob Grimm (Heath Ledger) are two con artists who use mechanics and mirrors to fake supernatural occurrences. They go to fearful villagers, and pretend to rid them of their monsters. General Delatombe (Jonathan Pryce) is about to execute them when they are given the chance to save the village of Marbaden. They would need the help of trapper Angelika (Lena Headey).Matt Damon plays an annoying arrogant pompous man. Heath Ledger is wrong as the bookish bumbling geek. Neither of them are likable. They are a hard duo to root for. Peter Stormare plays the wacky Frenchman Cavaldi. Lena Headey plays a very hard woman.It's all ugly. The characters are ugly. The setting is ugly. The arguing is ugly. It has Terry Gilliam's inventive style, but it doesn't have the awesome scale of 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'. It definitely doesn't have the fun.