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(1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1   "everyone involved in the production appears to have become lost in the dark woods, hoping somehow to find their way out with an incoherent trail of compromises."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel C- "A noisy, tonally berserk fantasy horror film, Grimm quickly reminds the viewer why is it’s so hard for Gilliam to find funding for his visions these days."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf C- "Audiences other than preteens will be sorely disappointed at Gilliam’s over-massaged vision of a tediously gimmicky script."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The film is as much about the process of creation, of spinning yarns and contexts, as it is about any particular yarns."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "Grim is as 'Grimm does."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth C "Gilliam is inspired by the sibling writers, it seems, so he could deliver a goofy comedy."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 1/4 "An aimless chore to sit through in desperate need of a human pulse and a shot of adrenaline."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Una aventura cómica y liviana, que se beneficia de la imaginación visual del director Terry Gilliam."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio D "Not just weird, but randomly, elaborately weird.... It's a total wreck."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "Gilliam fans will recognize their boy has been restricted again from crafting the all-out vision they know he’s capable of"   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D "Another Gilliam exercise in wretched excess, an orgy of big-budget incoherence more likely to cause appalled astonishment than childish delight."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A mishmash of a film that flies off in far too many different directions."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B "Bombastic, whimsical, and delicious, The Brothers Grimm is really a comic ghost story wrapped in the postmodern folds of Shakespeare In Love."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 2/5 "The fairy tale-spinning Brothers are recast as faux ghost-busters in Terry Gilliam's muddled medieval mediocrity."   Netflix   James Rocchi 7/10 "It probably had extravaganza status in mind at the outset, but it may have to settle with fun fantasy curiosity."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 4/10 "Surprisingly dull and uninvolving."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 4/5 "Perfect family entertainment and undoubtedly well worth seeing, but somewhat of a let down."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 6/10 "The movie is at least twice as good as most people say it is and about half as good as we'd all hoped it would be."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 1/5 "."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3/5 "Terry Gilliam is as unable to make an uninteresting movie as he is unable to make a “commercial” film...[but this] feels the most commercial and least Gilliamesque to me."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.5/4.0 "For grown-ups who pretend they don’t believe the horrible stories they heard as children."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2.5/5 "This film does for fairy tales what Time Bandits did for time travel stories"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "a setup that is far more rewarding than the eventual adventure...Grimm Brothers' fairy tale references replaced with the slow grinding of plot wheels."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford D+ "The Brothers Grimm is fascinating but only in the way that watching a good director misfire this badly can be."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 4/10 "There is much in this film to admire, but it goes by too fast and the story is almost incomprehensible. There is certainly enchantment here, but the story does not do much to hold it together."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 2/4 "Atmosphere alone doesn't make a movie"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Gilliam’s movies aren’t mere throwaway diversions... they plug themselves right into the collective psyche and gleefully pull out the stuffing..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "It’s ironic that a movie whose central characters are two of the world’s greatest storytellers should be so careless in telling its own story."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C+ " Too scary for kids and too thin for anyone else, Terry Gilliam's latest movie, like his heroes' tricks, has a lot of visual flair, but no substance."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/4 "Fails to reinvent its Grimm yarns and only cursorily investigates the relationship between truth and fiction as it rumbles from one farcical scenario to another."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 "Em vários momentos, Gilliam parece se preocupar mais com o efeito do que com a eficácia de sua história."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "The Brothers Grimm is a mess; a formerly daring director’s attempt to cash in on big studio backing even after the rug has been pulled out from under him."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "... on the whole, The Brothers Grimm is a mess ..."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3.5/5 "Until the plot goes wrong, this is a thoroughly entertaining period romp"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "The movie feels thoroughly like a project Gilliam did halfheartedly, just to stay in the game."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "To see what The Brothers Grimm aims for — to see how wonderful and glorious it could have been — is to curse it all the more as it slowly loses its way."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "Looks great, but less filling."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C "a dud...Gilliam doesn’t seem to be in control of things and leaves his star actors to their own devices."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/5 "Frankly I never would have believed that Terry Gilliam had a movie this bad in him."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 1.5/4 "Hardly memorable at all."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 8/10 "Terry Gilliam once again proves "Life's little subterfuges make it all worthwhile" in this imaginative, enchanting tale."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 2.5/4 "Even a master fantasist of his daring vision and whimsical humor cannot turn a frog of a script into a prince of a film."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 1/4 "A film with all the drama and flair of a Tuesday Morning tchotchke shop."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 2.5/4 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek  (1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1