Re 
my previous comment arsaib4's review 

The Brothers Grimm

In my opinion, after seeing an interview with an extremely sheepish Terry Gilliam and watching the film (luckily for free) I can only come to the conclusion that this was not the film Terry intended it to be. The guy is a visionary with a distinctive sense of humour and artistic style, while we may have had a little of the humour; we lost all the style. The Weinsteins had far too much say in what could and couldnt be done seriously compromising the end result and it shows, boy does it show!

The film was spun on the weakest of premisss, The Brothers Grimm hoodwinking villagers out of their coffers by playing up to their superstitious natures using elaborate trickery was fine but as soon as the main purpose of the film, the rescue of 10 young village girls and denouement of the tricksters behind the scam, was revealed everything fell to pieces. The stars (Matt Damon especially and Heath Ledger) seemed unsure of what they were supposed to be doing and looked quite bemused and puzzled throughout most of the film. The CGI effects that replaced Gilliam's unique designs and hacked together effects were nothing short of lousy, no style, no substance and just poor to at best average CGI (yawn). 

The main bad guy Cavaldi (Peter Stormare) was irritating, so irritating I just kept wishing hed drop dead (just as bad as Jim Carey in Lemony Snickett), Lena Headey, what can I say? nothing really, Id love to have seen what Samantha Morton would have done with the role (as Terry Gilliams first choice). I said it before about Brotherhood of the Wolf and I have to say it again for The Brothers Grimm, not even the gorgeous Monica Bellucci could save it, it is an unmitigated disaster with a low entertainment factor. Maybe Terry Gilliam has become too self indulgent or maybe (as seems to be the case), he sold his project and his soul to the Weinsteins and is now paying the price for dancing with the devil.


Cheers Trev.