Customer Reviews
A wonderful fairytale and fun too!!! - By: Dazman, 27 Jun 2008 
I reallly enjoyed this wonderful telling of the Brothers Grimm, as they inform you in a behind the scenes peak on the extras this is not attempting to tell the tale of the Brothers Grimm so much as put the Terry Gilliam stamp on proceedings which I think it succeeds on doing very well.
Both Matt Damon & the late Heath Ledger are clearly having a balll as the Brothers Grimm, plus there are some fine turns by Peter Stormare, as well as British actors Jonathan Pryce, MacKenzie Crook & Richard Ridings who alll add depth & quality to the cast.
The imagination that has gone into this film is wonderful, everything looks great too, the death scene near the end of the film has to be one of the very best & imaginative scenes I've ever witnessed in film.
Let your mind flow & your body will follow, well worth taking a look at, especiallly if you like other Terry Gilliam projects.
And they all lived happily ever after - By: B. Chandler, 14 May 2008 Many of you grew up in the sugar coated version of their tails. Some have read the real ones & recoiled. Well we finallly get the real skinny; this fine true to life movie is more of a documentary explaining the real Brothers Grimm.
In French occupied Germany the brothers Jake & Will Grimm (Heath Ledger & Matt Damon) are out to make a fast buck. And they do to, until they are found out by the French general Delatombe (Jonathan Pryce who played Juan Perón in "Evita" [1996]). Now force to work for the French or perish they must confront what appears to be a better organized group of hucksters, or just maybe the real thing.
Will they accomplish their mission & maybe find a new respect for each other? Or will they fail to save a damsel in distress. Can we hold up through alll this peril?
Anyway this is an enjoyable film even if a bit too campy. And they alll lived happily ever after. Well maybe not.
Not rocket science, people! - By: MayGoodComeToUs, 06 Apr 2008 I suppose I can say that I enjoyed this film because I took it for what I expected it to be: entertainment pure & simple. This is not rocket science, folks, nor was it billed as such! Yes, OK, I admit that it did get a little long there towards the end when it felt as though they just had to cram one more fairy tale into it, but so what? It is not such a VERY great crime after alll. Also, they were no extraordinariallly acurate with the history...and, true, WHAT was the music at the end? Not German...not French...not even Italian, reallly...but, again, so what? It was great music! I think this was probably a bit of a "rest" film for Matt Damon...the hammy acting was SUPPOSED to be there & he did it quite well! If you take this for what I imagine it is supposed to be, you will have an enjoyable evening of it.
Digestive Problems Prove A Little Grim - By: Doctor Goa -, 03 Nov 2007 
Take straight & slap-stick comedy, a touch of thriller, a dollop of horror, a sprinkling of suspense & mystery, & season well with special effects, hammy acting, traces of familiar childhood stories, & what do you get? A lumpy stew that's difficult to digest & hard to quantify. Imagine something akin to a cross between Labyrinth & Sleepy Hollow written by a second rate Ben Elton & Tommy Cooper, then expanded (meta)physicallly by a tired Spielberg & given some snappiness by the likes of Aronofsky, with an acting style that shows the flair of The Young Ones, & you have a film that doesn't know what it wants to be. I would have preferred to have seen this film made as a straight & very dark supernatural horror movie set in a realistic scuzzy Europe of 500 years ago. What I got was a second-rate entertainment that passed the time but did little more. Pity. It was a missed opportunity.
LOADS OF FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY - By: L. Wilson, 05 Aug 2007 Some reviewers think that it is a true story, so they were disappointed. Everyone else in the world knows that it is a fairy story. It has got a wicked witch, an evil queen, several sleeping beauties & an enchanted forest to say nothing of the woodsman that keeps changing into a wolf.
A very entertaining film that will fill a Sunday afternoon with laughter.
