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The Brothers Grimm

Overview


Genre :

Comedy, Action, Adventure

Release Date :

August 26, 2005

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

Terry Gilliam

Starring :

Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce, Monica Bellucci, Lena Headey, Peter Stormare, Mackenzie Cook, Richard Ridings, Roger Ashton-Griffiths

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2 of 4

“..Though it opens well, the film morphs from lovable buddy picture into an earnest but icky action-adventure..”
by Bruce Westbrook [Houston Chronicle]
3.5 of 4

“..Terry Gilliam's flawed yet enthralling, visually spectacular fairy-tale fantasia..”
by James Verniere [Boston Herald]
7 of 10

“..suffers from an overabundance of elaborate, furiously staged action scenes..”
by Mel Valentin [Movie-Vault]
2.5 of 4

“..overplotted, overacted, and over-art-directed, with mossy sets and wonky digital effects crowding the frame...”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
2.5 of 4

“..just a lot of empty razzle-dazzle..”
by Tim Knight [Reel]
1.5 of 4

“..is clearly not for children, yet it doesn't seem to offer much to teens or adults..”
by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
2.5 of 5

“..feels like an overbearing, interminable nightmare...”
by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News]
2.5 of 4

“..entirely unique and made with the vivid imagination only a master filmmaker can muster...”
by Sara M. Fetters [MovieFreak]
“..emerges as a folkloric adventure that intermittently entertains...”
by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter]
4.5 of 5

“..contains a good amount of humor and action with strong actors in the roles on screen...”
by Paul Maniaci [The Cinema Source]
1.5 of 5

“..cheap and ineffective, slightly entertaining but not nearly enough to be worth the time...”
by James Brundage [Filmcritic]
8 of 10

“..certainly Gilliam's most mainstream and entertaining film to date...”
by Edward Douglas [Comingsoon]
6.5 of 10

“..a mildly humourous, mildly entertaining flick..”
by Brendan Cullin [Empire Movies]
2.5 of 5

“..a messy fairy tale riff that overcompensates for a less-than-enchanting story with frenetic busyness...”
by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News]
3 of 4

“..a late-summer surprise, a movie as enjoyable as it is clever, and the most family-friendly film Terry Gilliam has made since "Time Bandits."..”
by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press]
2.5 of 4

“..a great idea done badly..”
by John Hayes [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
2 of 4

“..a flat and tired fairy tale..”
by Shawn Dwyer [Hollywood]
2 of 4

“..a film with a grand scale that nonetheless feels watered down and uncharacteristically predictable...”
by Rob Blackwelder [SPLICEDwire]
4 of 5
Reviewed by Peter Sobczynski [EFilmCritic]
4 of 5
Reviewed by Andrea Chase [Killer Movie Reviews]
3.5 of 4
Reviewed by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by Bill Muller [The Arizona Republic]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by [E! Online]
3 of 5
Reviewed by Gerry Shamray [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland]
3 of 4
Reviewed by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
3 of 4
Reviewed by [The Filmiliar Cineaste]
3 of 5
Reviewed by Bob Grimm [Sacramento News & Review]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Brett Michel [The Boston Phoenix]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Marjorie Baumgarten [Austin Chronicle]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Duane Dudek [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Daniel Fienberg [Zap2it]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Pete Vonder Haar [Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Daniel Neman [Richmond Times-Dispatch]

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