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βthe movie is messy, boring in many parts, and never really becomes engagingβ
ozzsoffy Β· Metacritic β
βit lost from the middle, with some ideas and options looking absurdβ
FilipeNeto Β· Metacritic β
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βGilliam has rarely been more inventive, energetic, or just plain funny.β
David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor Β· 100
βJust as fabulously cartoon-Gothic as "Sleepy Hollow."β
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice Β· 80
βA wildly wondrous reinvention of the story of the chroniclers of dark, occasionally horrific, child-pleasing fairy tales.β
Jim Fusilli, Wall Street Journal Β· 80
βThis brisk, free-falling fantasy about the famous collators of German fairy tales, played here as a kind of comedy act by Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, is Terry Gilliam's most entertaining work since the glory days of "Time Bandits," "Brazil," "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," and "The Fisher King."β
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader Β· 80
βIf you're a Gilliam junkie, as I am, you go with it, even when the script by Ehren Kruger (The Skeleton Key) loses its shaky hold on coherence.β
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Β· 75
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βthe movie is messy, boring in many parts, and never really becomes engagingβ
ozzsoffyabout 0β100% inread it β
βit lost from the middle, with some ideas and options looking absurdβ
FilipeNetoabout 33β66% inread it β
βFor how good it is, it received surprisingly little appreciation. Without a doubt, this is one of the films that has entertained me the most, made me laugh the most, and helped me disconnect from everything more than almost anything else I have ever seen. I think it is a tremendously underrated movie. It is a shameless copy, a kind of mix between 'Snow White' and 'Sleeping Beauty', a fantasy fairy tale straight out of Disney. Either that, or it is heavily based on both works. Even so, it manageβ
chriss17euread it β
βA good movie with some bad mid 00's CGI. It has a decent plot and some pretty good acting. This was released before the trend of making all fairy tale stories resemble the original darker versions, so it felt much fresher watching this back in 2005 than it does today.β
ALMJread it β
βDoes it deserve 10 stars? No, but I look at this as a thumbs up or thumbs down thing, and it's getting thumbs up, sooo...disclaimer there. I really liked this and I accept that I am in the minority. It has the Terry Gilliam comedic feel to it and it has the Terry Gilliam acid trip feel to it... and even at it's worst that is still absolutely entertaining and a pure joy to watch. Someone mentioned wide angle work before and, yes, it has a lot of that wide angle close-up work that can only rβ
GenerationofSwineread it β
βWell it is a Terry Gilliam film so was always going to be a bit eccentric - but the idea that the legendary Brothers Grimm were actually grifters was actually quite an fun one. Assemble a couple of A-listers and we should have been flying. Except, well - we are not. Instead of having some amiable horseplay as they fleece the gullible and the unwitting, we find "Jake" (Heath Legder) and "Will" (Matt Damon) in a village where the children have all gone missing. The local grandee "Gen. Delatombe" (β
CinemaSerfread it β
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