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Brothers Grimm: Stories
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The Brothers Grimm is a mess of a film. Rather than taking the time to develop plot or characters, it is content with stringing together flashy action scenes, indicated to be "big moments" by the score, in hopes of exciting viewers enough for them to forget about story. The narrative staggers from one scene to the next with little connection made between them. Indeed, you'd be hard-pressed to summarize exactly what happens. Bits and pieces of various Grimm stories are thrown together in an attempt to convince viewers that all these ideas could have come from one journey, resulting only in confusion and disjointedness. Excessively graphic, the film tries to compensate for a lack of substance by randomly employing disturbing incidents of grimness or gunfire.
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The Brothers Grimm were figures of major importance for folklore studies throughout Europe, but it is only relevant here to speak of their impact in England. Their famous joint collection of fairytales, the Kinder- und Hausmärchen, appeared in 1812-14, and was first translated into English in 1823. They are now thoroughly absorbed into the part-oral, part-printed traditions of English children; they include such famous stories as ‘The Frog Prince’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Rapunzel’, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ (... told by Perrault), ‘Hansel and Gretel’, and ‘Rumpelstiltskin’.
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This work, "The Brothers Grimm," as an Action/Horror, does not foot the bill. There is too little Horror and the action is sometimes a bit subdued. There are places where CGI and/or choreography is obvious thereby breaking the Spell so competently woven by the story and virtue of the characters. However, it IS too dark for the kiddies, and still quite enjoyable.
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The Brothers Grimm is weird. Visually pleasing, but weird. If you saw Time Bandits, and recognize the work of Terry Gilliam, than you’re probably prepared before you get to the theater. Realistically, if you reflect on the ‘real-life’ story of two brothers who wrote stories about an old woman who shoves children into a stove or a woman who didn’t cut her hair for years…strange is key.
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The German brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm spent years collecting and researching folk tales early in the 19th century. In 1812 they published Children's and Household Tales, a collection which became known as "Grimm's Fairy Tales." The collection included what are now some of the world's most famous stories, including Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin. Wilhelm married in 1825, but Jacob never wed and for most of his life lived in his brother's home. The brothers ... began a German historical dictionary, the enormous Deutsches Worterbook, which ran to 16 volumes when it was finally completed by others in 1954.
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Along with the original German works, many originally French tales entered the Brothers Grimm collection through a Huguenot tale-teller that the Grimms used as one of their main sources. English translations of the 7th edition (1857) remain popular, and they exist now predominantly as highly expurgated and saccharine versions intended for children, even though the folk tales that the Grimms had collected had not been previously considered stories for children. Witches, goblins, trolls and wolves prowl the dark forests of the Grimms' ancient villages, as well as the deeper psyche of the city-life of this time. However the Grimms often rewrote the stories to suit what was considered appropriate for the time, especially when the folk tales often could be quite sexually explicit.
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