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Brothers Grimm: Terry Gilliam
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"The Brothers Grimm" is not your father's fairy tales. Or your children's. And that's part of the problem. Terry Gilliam has created a movie that's occasionally stunning but more often confused. It's not really a family film and it's not really a film for Gilliam's fans, since he's not at his best. And it's certainly not the action extravaganza that's being advertised on television.
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The Brothers Grimm was, by all accounts, hamstrung by innumerable problems on the set and in the producer's office. Perhaps if Gilliam had been allowed to pursue his vision unhampered by Hollywood politics, the movie would have emerged as a polished gem instead of this muddy mess. Let's hope Gilliam scores better on the next one.
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A sluggish misfire, “The Brothers Grimm” required a wittier writer than the instigator of “Ring 2” and “Scream 3.” Terry Gilliam usually works with top screenwriters like Richard LaGravenese, Tom Stoppard and his Monty Python buddies. He should be able to distinguish between a script that glistens and a script that extinguishes. Grade: Red-Eye: B+; Brothers Grimm: D+
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[T]hen, the whole idea of Brothers Grimm as selling out makes little sense. If Gilliam didn't "sell out" with the much-more-viewer-friendly Fisher King, he certainly didn't do so here. Then too, selling out in this sense is predicated on the idea that a cult filmmaker making a film that might, God forbid, be popular is a betrayal -- something that says much about cult fans who resent the prospect of an intrusion by the public into what they consider to be their personal territory. (Selling out is ... built on the screwy notion that anyone anywhere at any time ever sold a film project by promising the backers that very few people would pay to see the results.)
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"The Brothers Grimm" is certainly not going to be everyone's cup-of-tea. The flick takes chances and, while it fails more often than it succeeds, it fails interestingly, weirdly and in an absolutely over-the-top fashion. Those who have liked Gilliam's past efforts may want to try this one out as a rental.
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Brothers Grimm fails miserably as a sellout work if it is ... -- as many have claimed -- confused, confusing, etc. The truth is that it's very much a Terry Gilliam picture, with all that implies.
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