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The Brothers Grimm (2005)
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Yet again, incorrigible director Terry Gilliam struggled to get another piece of his fertile imagination onto the big screen. His previous movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, didn't get made at all (as chronicled in documentary Lost in La Mancha) so it's with some relief that The Brothers Grimm at last emerged from the wilderness. Set in Germany in the late 18th century, this grotesque, freewheeling period fantasy harks back to Gilliam's mud-caked, pre-industrial work such as Jabberwocky and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Here, the future purveyors of scary fairy tales, Jacob (Heath Ledger) and Wilhelm Grimm (Matt Damon), are travelling conmen who become embroiled in the mystery of a haunted forest from which youngsters continue to disappear. Ledger and Damon — sporting fine English accents — carry the film with their bickering shtick, but the sketchy script leaves the likes of Peter Stormare and Jonathan Pryce to overact horribly and Lena Headey to do nothing much at all apart from be the love interest. The occasional CGI effects may leave a little to be desired but, after a plodding start, the momentum picks up to produce a barnstorming third act. AC
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Running time
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113min
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Country of origin
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Cz Rep / US
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Genre
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Period Fantasy Adventure
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Alternate title
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Grimm
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Ehren Kruger
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Theatrical distributor
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Buena Vista
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UK cinema certificate
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12A
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UK cinema release date
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November 2005
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