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a tongue and cheek way, with humor always spiking the fantasy cocktail. Look at his films The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Time Bandits, and 12 Monkeys for evidence. Even the pop-up animated scenes which appear in Monty Python And The Holy Grail attest to his brilliance as a story teller. It’s all in the details. He takes Kruger’s story of con men that are forced to help the same types of people they have been scamming, by tackling the same evils they have been pretending to vanquish. This is a great set up along with the back-story inherent in the dark fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm are associated with. It’s as though Gilliam was given an unending canvas and all the paint in the world to work with. You can see it in the forest, the monsters that inhabit it, and also in the retelling of the Grimm’s tales.
The Brothers Grimm is a nice escape from our everyday reality. We get to experience a well developed story where you are interested to see how it concludes. Will they save the town? It contains a good amount of humor and action with strong actors in the roles on screen. Most importantly it is great to see Terry Gilliam back and taking us on a new exploration.
Movie Grade: B+
Synopsis:
Brothers Jake and Will Grimm, renowned collectors of folklore, have made a career out of traveling from village to village pretending to rid them of "enchanted" creatures. Their bluff is called, however, when they are forced by Napoleon's French government to investigate a haunted forest where girls have been disappearing mysteriously. What they discover leads to a series of adventures involving an actual evil (and immortal) sorceress that mirrors that of mythology and the fables that the Brothers Grimm would eventually become famous for. |
