I will just say this to start off with that it was sooo tempting to get up and walk out of this movie. It was boring, had dodgy acting, apart from the small jokes here and there and the idiocy of the characters, the movie was not worth seeing, course if I had of walked out I knew my friends and I would just end up hiring it on DVD because we'd want to know what happened in the end.
The Brothers Grimm (TBG), is set in the 18th century where superstition, witches and magic were feared, cursed and never spoken about aloud. Whilst cleverly put together using childrens fairytails such as red riding hood, Hansel and Grettle, Repunzel, sleeping beauty, Cinderalla, the gingerbread man, and of course other childrens tails; the storyline was not hard to predict. I had it picked what the movie was about, around an hour into it...or when they were first talking of the story of Repunzel... I dont want to give anything away for those who havent seen it....But it uses these fairytails and German Folk Law to tell a story of 11 missing children, like I said its very clever.
Matt Damons acting really disappointed me in this one, although he hasnt really had a good role since The Talented Mr Rippley, this was by far the worst I have ever seen him. Heath Ledger, however, managed to hold it together quite well.
The special effects were also pretty crap...infact they were really crap...pffft. stupid crap for crap...except the end bit with the mirror..umm I can't say much more without giving stuff away..
Fave quote from movie "I made the armour, it isn't magical, it's just shiney"
Rating- Well I was going to give it extra marks for how it tied all the fairytales into the kidnapping mystery but it loses those marks for its crappy SFX and Matt Damon acting so
1.5 stars out of 5...
sorry Terry Gillam, it just doesnt cut it. Lucky Anthony Hopkins, Robin Williams and Johnny Depp ended up pulling out otherwse they would have disappointed me. Although they were going to cast Nicole Kidman in it but she couldnt do it (she cant do anything, especially act hehe). They should have just cast her, it wouldnt have made the movie any worse and I wouldnt have gone and see it...
So yeah dont go see it