| The Brothers Grimm |
| Rated PG-13 |
| ____ |
| Release Date: August 26, 2005 |
| Original Story Synopsis: |
| Movie-Pix Best Guess: |
| Two brothers travel from village to village swindling people out of their money by solving fake supernatural problems. When they run across a real haunted forest they find themselves face to face with all of those things that will eventually make them famous storytellers. |
| From the previews it doesn't look that good, but when you take into consideration all of the excellent yet strange films that former Monty Python member, Terry Gilliam, is famous for making, you must see what his latest creation is about. |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| ~ Somewhere between truth and fairy tale~ |
| Best Guess Results: |
| While Terry Cilliam has made better movies, The Brothers Grimm is something different and original yet with remnants of all the classic tales that every child has heard. |
| Movie-Pix Hit or Miss |
 |
|
| While Terry Gilliam is most famous for his role in Monty Python, he also has a well-known reputation for his unique style in motion pictures, both writing and directing some of today’s most memorable films. Maybe not one of his best films, “The Brothers Grimm” is an entertaining mix of fairy tale and humor. Will (Matt Damon) and Jacob (Heath Ledger) are the Brothers Grimm. They go from town to town ridding them of evil spirits and |
| monsters. Actually, there aren’t any supernatural occurrences. The townsfolk are superstitious and sometimes the brothers help make up creatures when they can’t find any real problems. But since they get paid to clean out a village they don’t mind playing on their fears. While Will comes up with the scams, Jacob writes the ideas down in a book that he is writing. Just having fleeced a village of all their money, the brothers are captured by the French military and brought up on charges. Delatombe (Jonathan Pryce), who is in charge of the troops, decides that they can do one of two things. The first is that they can die a horrible death by torture, while the second option is to go to the aid of another village whose children are being stolen and root out the perpetrators. |
| Expecting there to be a person behind the abductions, the two head off into the woods, taking along a beautiful but supposedly cursed guide, Angelika (Lena Headey). When she takes them to a secret tower, they discover that this story isn’t just make believe. There are no tricks that can make the forest come to life and attack them. Jacob immediately realizes what is happening, but Will refuses to see the truth. After he has been making up such dramatic stories, it takes him a lot longer to accept the fact that they are real. |
| Once upon a time there was a beautiful queen who locked herself away in a tower. The tower was a place where she studied magic and became obsessed with her own beauty. But that was many years ago, and is it even possible that somehow she could still be alive? The brothers begin to think this is exactly what is going on, and must find a way into the tower in order to solve the mystery. Filled with strange characters and with a certain British flair, the film is both fun and original. There are even a number of classic Grimm characters that show up, such as Hansel and Gretel and Little Red |
| Riding Hood. The special effects are unique as one child is swallowed by a horse and another is attacked by a mud creature. So while this may not be one of the best films ever made, it’s worth seeing for its originality and its odd yet familiar charm. |
 |