The Brothers Grimm
2005
**
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Lena Headey
The Brothers Grimm went out to the people to collect folklore and wrote them into their famous fairytales. The brothers in this film are charlatans who go out to the people and pretend to exorcise witches and bad spirits, and in the forests of Marbaden they actually face the real deal. Terry Gilliam is famous for his stunning visuals and, once again, he creates some scary and beautiful imagery, but the story is messy and uninvolving, and for the first 30 minutes almost unwatchable. Stylistically he doesn't know what kind of a film he's making, and the result is a historical slapstick horror fantasy. Acting is by and large awful, but Peter Stormare's hamming is in a league of his own.
