The Brothers Grimm 2005
Directed by Terry Gilliam · 118 mins · 2,003 views
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heath ledger drunkenly proclaiming that if you kiss a frog he’ll turn into a prince,,, life changing
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Always liked the premise here of illusionists/con artists being forced to confront real fairy tale movie magic, and there’s some decent production design and FX work (some occasionally janky CG notwithstanding) but it never really tops the self-reflexive opening performance they put on and quickly stops being about that angle and pivots to being a more traditional, sluggishly paced supernatural adventure mystery. Even baby Josh was falling asleep during this one when it came out, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow the better version of what this thinks it’s doing.
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***Dinner with Gilliam – 9th Course*** Once upon a time there was a director of films named Terry Gilliam. Terry was a strange man who made strange, yet delightful films about imagination. One day, Terry decided to make a film based on some other great purveyors of fantasy, the Brothers Grimm. In his film, the Brothers were a pair of con-artists who must confront actual magic to save their lives and find their ways, and thus they lived happily ever after. Except they didn’t, because Terry’s The Brothers Grimm was aggressively bland at best and downright dreadful at worst. You see, the Brothers were played by Matt Damon, who seemed confused as to why his hair looked so silly, and…
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Never knew the Brothers Grimm were in a throuple with Cersei Lannister.
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The spider-horse scene has haunted my nightmares since I was 10 and I’m genuinely afraid to revisit this film because of it. Seriously, I didn’t trust horses for years.
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✭✭ Olive ☽｡⋆ 8 月 25, 2026
I miss Heath he played his role so incredibly well in what I can’t tell is a kids movie or not
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do not watch the gingerbread man scene, i repeat do no watch the gingerbread man scene
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wax museum vanity fair ferris wheel swindle. unimaginative, ramshackle, ponderous, dusty, hysterical, colourless, unfunny, pallid, charmless.
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interestingly Grimm.
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A bit of interesting art direction here but there’s not much else to like about this waste of prime Damon and Ledger
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Led me to read 2 chapters of Grimms Household Tale.
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kinda spooky but also just kinda weird and gross? watchable.
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MEW 2026 47. Режиссёр Терри Гиллиам я думала, что будет намного хуже, но мне очень понравилось! Хит Леджер почему-то выглядит старше Мэта Деймона, хотя он младше на 8 лет..
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Grandmother Toad’s a freak fr
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é uma ideia extremamente foda, mas o filme é muito estranho, o tom dele muda da água pro vinho todo momento, as vezes vem uma cena super ridícula e boba e na próxima uma morte super violenta e gráfica
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This movie feels like a fever dream someone had after reading too many fairy tales. It’s dark, weird, creepy, and honestly kind of fun, but I can’t say I completely loved it. The whole atmosphere is probably my favorite part—the twisted forests, cursed villages, creepy creatures, and that unsettling fairy-tale feeling made it feel like a childhood storybook got dropped into a horror movie. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger were fun to watch together, even if their characters sometimes felt a little messy. The story was interesting enough to keep me watching, but it felt like there were too many ideas fighting for attention
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After they slaughtered that poor kitty, I knew what my rating would be. I feel like we need a support group for people who have survived watching this movie. Never again.
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Fotografia muito mágica, cenários muito bem feitos e trilha sonora mística, esse filme definitivamente é lendário ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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After a promising first act, this one just goes off the rails. I’m sure there’s plenty of blame to go around, but Gilliam and the Weinsteins notoriously feuded through this production. The story gets lost and it just becomes creatively for creativity’s sake; which might entertain in flashes, but does not sustain engagement. Maybe there was a good story at one point, maybe not. Damon and Ledger make a great pair, and Lena Headey is pretty badass, but ultimately this film becomes pretty unwatchable pretty quick. Pity.
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at an hour and thirty minutes left marlena said “i’m going to start a countdown to the end” and I said “we are NOT dnfing this movie”, so we finished. it was not good!
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Despite all its shortcomings, I still have to see a better reimagining of fairy tales in film. Rupert Sanders’ Snow White has nothing on this; modern Hansel and Gretel flicks don’t boil my cauldron. Now Gilliam’s film, while bizarre and sometimes overfarcical (Stormare plays the Italian character like he expects the Pythons to enlist him for a new sketch show), does give me what I want. Sure the story is a mess: too many elements combined in a Rube Goldberg…
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Listened to the Terry Gilliam commentary. Fairly informative. Funny to hear how much he hated the original script.
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Finally finished the whole movie after not being able to watch it as a kid… still terrified
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why did cavaldi hold him so tenderly …. anyway they didnt need to do that to the poor fucking cat
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This movie is the primary example to never mix a potion that includes 19th Century German tales, a Monty Python member and 2000s CGI. Also, what kind of fucked up line is: “You killed my friends.” “I wish you had more.”
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TRUST THE TOAD
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Monica Bellucci una figa assurda, ma la recitazione è altra cosa. Carina comunque l’idea.
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I’ll tell you what, 2000s Matt Damon can make up for a lot. Iffy CGI and all. We as a society need to make better fiction about the Brothers Grimm. This isn’t a bad movie, least not in my opinion. Just could’ve been better. I really did enjoy all the little fairy tale references that aren’t plot relevant. The evil queen sleeping on a pile of mattresses at the top of a tower and having really long hair, a little girl wearing a red cloak, a pair of siblings named Hansel and Greta. A little old woman giving someone an apple. It’s clever
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The gingerbread girl blob is genuinely the most terrifying thing I’ve seen in film
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Fear and Loathing in 2005, Heath Ledger, tolle Perspektiven, hübsche Farben, super silly, Monica Bellucci, Heath Ledger redet über Marburg, Frankfurt und Kassel und polnische Synchronstimme. Die richtige Fernseh-experience.
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The budget might not be high but the writers were
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L’autiste des décorations va encore parler mais la présence d’un Ordre de la Couronne Roumaine créé en 1881 sur un général français de Napoléon se trouvant en Allemagne n’a aucun sens
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What’d those horses ever do to you Feels like a rough draft for Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters
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nostalgic but so long
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konsepnya dirangkum n dicocoklogi ye (2) inimah into the woods but make it darker😭
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peak cinema
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peak childhood and pure nostalgia
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Rewatched and honestly a pretty good fun sick day movie
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Stealing the Matt Damon/Heath Ledger kiss from us was a horrible crime worse than every accent this movie attempted
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One of the best to ever do it, so uniquely terrible in so many compelling ways. There’s genuinely seconds of genius in some moments but what’s around it is such a fever dream. Watched on a cruise
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Maybe it was because I was on a cruise and kept tapping in and out every few days, but I had no idea what was going on.
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Ssissi 8 月 18, 2026
to this day i’m traumatized by the scene of the well fucking insane
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I’m an absolute sucker for Monica Bellucci and “dark” fantasy and this was a lot of fun despite how all over the place it was with the script and performances. Crazy to think that I saw this onscreen over 21 years ago and even watched one of those E! Behind the Scenes interviews on tv for it.
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this film tickles me it was like being at disneyland when i recognized the fairytales being referenced
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Mmaiuyan 8 月 18, 2026
de chica me hubiese encantado
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I love fairytales and Matt Damon
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I’m always a sucker for any kind of fairytale retelling— especially when they get a gothic makeover. Just the right amount of spook for a cozy Augtober evening 🖤
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Vc acha de homem pensa?
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Good
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meh
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What the hell was that horse?
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i kinda feel like they’re actually all dead
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Jacob Is autistic as fuck, stupid as hell but he’s cute 🫰🏻
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Aabel 8 月 17, 2026
was terrified by this movie as a child and i can see why with both the horse and the child wiping mud off her face only to scrape said face off still being nightmarish. as i’m typing this i’ve already completely forgotten whatever happens around these scenes
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Matt Damon’s Orginal Odyssey
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true Ava-core, a medieval fairytale full of drunken whimsy and famous actors being peculiarly British (even when they’re not) Ava said this felt like Monty Python before we even came to discover Terry Gilliam was a indeed a member of Monty Python They made Lena Headey SO RED
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Cursed *spits*
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If you told me that Matt Damon and Heath Ledger played brothers where one was a suave lady’s man and one was a nerd in glasses, I would have guessed their roles incorrectly
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i don’t get how the person who wrote this also wrote f1: the movie
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PTSD per l’omino di fango.
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I swear Matt Damion never ages. I mean he still looks the same! But all in all the Gingy scene is terrifying like what is that thing??? But got the dvd from tuesdays goodwill dvd trip! Well worth the movie! I like the gothic vibe! Perfect for Halloween! On this watch: DVD that I own
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so strange, i remember seeing this and finding it fascinating, it’s clear the 20 years that have gone by haven’t done it any favors, this checks as a proto-Once Upon A Time (including both the goofy acting and bad cgi), but past the shallow ouat comparison this is…. so clearly a Pirates of the Caribbean rip off?!?!?! we’ve got the love triangle with a keira knightly look-a-like, the clash and xenophobia of two european cultures. fuck it, let’s also bring…
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J’ai juste regardé ce film pour Monica Bellucci
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Sicuramente andrò contro l’opinione di molti cinefili, ma chissenefrega: il cinema è fatto di soggettività. A me questo film piace. È piacevole e divertente, sebbene perda colpi su alcuni aspetti, come una CGI decisamente datata e qualche buco di trama dovuto alla complessa produzione che c’è stata dietro. Tutto sommato però funziona e diverte. Da lodare la prova del cast, in particolare un eccellente Peter Stormare nei panni di Mercurio Cavaldi: un personaggio volutamente sopra le righe e stralunato, ma…
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EErykHollow 8 月 16, 2026
Vaatasin kogu filmi ära underground lasnamäe tehnopunkriklubi suitsunurgas. Film ise on maksimaalselt hullumeelne. Mul on soft spot 2000ndate halba CGI-d täis fantaasiafilmidele, teades isegi kuhu see liikumine tänapäeva Hollywoodi filmimaastiku viinud on.
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The French piss me off so bad it’s not even funny. Ah yes i love my film with 70% references to fables and 30% magic beans which is also a reference. Also did i just watch a horse vore a child??
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this shit weird, it made a lot more sense after I grasped this was monty python. watched cause of Heath and he performs as expected. also best Matt Damon film I’ve seen so far. watched in Berlin with Lenny
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Gave me nightmares as a kid but I still watched it multiple times for some reason
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Un conte tournant autour de contes populaires. Le résultat de diverses parties qui s’entendait à peine. C’est triste, puisque le scripte qui déborde de bonnes idées abouties dans une production remplit de compromis qui n’a rien pour se démarquer. Au minimum, les prestations de Jonathan Pryce et Peter Stormare sont tripatives, la trame sonore est inspirée, puis le design du surnaturel est fort réussit. Pas mauvais, mais il y a mieux, de beaucoup même, sans regarder trop loin à même la filmographie du réalisateur.
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Fascinated by Lena Headey’s tan in this movie
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Sheshh it had me laughing, then immediately questioning the CGI budget. Some scenes were genuinely fun, others looked like they were rendered on a school computer. And that gingerbread scene, WHAT was going on 💀. Messy as hell, but I can’t lie, I had a good time watching.
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Well well well if it isn’t Matt again
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Matts accent was incredible
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This movie was the coolest thing I had ever seen when I was a kid
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This film pisses me off because it has so much potential. It has a great concept, an incredible main cast but it wastes its concept and just becomes a huge mess. Still, if I didn’t enjoy Heath Ledger and Matt Damon playing 2 dumbass brothers at least a little bit what kind of person would I be?
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why did cavaldi lowkey sound like mr cardboard ? crazy that angelika, jacob & will formed a polycule at the end. siblings or dating or both ⁉️ banger little motif in the soundtrack though
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If heath ledger and matt damn is both in love with you, throuple is the only option obviously
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HUGE for fairytale fans
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Heath in one of his funner roles. This was a wild movie and the horse is always disturbing
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I’m not sure what I was expecting, but that wasn’t it
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Lo que mas me apena es que no otra escena tan interesante como la ddl muñeco de jengibre.
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Did not realize that was Peter Stormare until now:0 Getting my Swedish citizenship revoked
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La ví de morro y me gustó, pero ahora que la ví de grande pues… Aparenta ser darks pero tiene el mismo nivel de humor que Marvel. La trama tiene algo de sentido, pero el final se lo sacaron completamente del recto (sin build up ni nada) Que bueno que Heath Ledger fue el Joker, porque odiaría que fuera recordado por esta película.
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Ddaphne 8 月 12, 2026
can’t decide if the horse or that gingerbread man.. thing was worse but matt damon was better here than in the odyssey im so serious
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cersei out acted them all
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The Heath Ledger kick continues with a film that both me and my sister haven’t seen since theaters back in 2005. The Brothers Grimm was a movie that I remembered having mixed feelings about when I first saw it and I still felt that same way upon a rewatch. Sure, it’s entertaining enough and both Ledger & Damon are fine in their roles. But it’s a bit confused on whether it wants to be a full-blown tongue in cheek take on the Brothers Grimm or a scary folktale.
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Ho provato a dargli una seconda chance (è pur sempre un film di Gilliam), ma niente: è proprio brutto.
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as always the sets in gilliam’s films are immaculate. really fun to see matt damon and heath ledger in such goofy roles really felt like i was in a storybook i tried watching this on a plane on my phone a while back and it wasn’t even HD, it was actually distracting how good this blu ray looks comparatively
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The last time I saw this movie was in maybe 2008 and it was on a PlayStation Portable via UMD. This time it was on a blu-ray and 65” television. I think it was better on the PSP.
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not the best but it has its charm. di ko lang nagustuhan na ang daming sinamang folklore pero surface level knowledge lang lahat wala man lang highlight or onting deep dive anw, still good and i appreciate the effects and the editing. zero ai puro kayod lang 💪 aking tasa ng tsaa
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The costumes weren’t even fun enough to make this worth watching
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This isn’t as bad as I remembered; in fact it’s reasonably entertaining and imaginative. But it feels like Gilliam finally hit a wall (namely, Harvey Weinstein) and buckled for the first time in his career. It’s as if they filmed two versions of this film – a straightforward (and boring) post-Pirates adventure film, and a more florid, intense Gilliam-esque version – and intercut them scene-by-scene. Lena Hedley’s love interest belongs in the first film, along within the glaring CGI and…
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Not an incredible movie but super wierd and freaky. Terry Gilliam has such an uncanny vision for things, I don’t love all of it but it’s hard to deny its uniqueness. Also, I think Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are having a ball in this. At one point they inexplicably wake up wearing bonnets; love that.
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monica belucci serving cunt as always
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lots of choices being made. none of them are particularly good.
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Okay challengers but make it about the brothers grimm in early 19th century europe….. Why is Matt Damon morena as fuck??? This was one of the movies I was obsessed with growing up, and Holy it was still so good and weird as when I first watched it. The british accents were giving, but maybe that’s because i’m American and think anyone doing a British accent is revolutionary and fun!! Pretty sure this was my introduction to Terry Gilliam, on the way to start his filmography! Heath Ledger’s ragged beard…. Sure
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I had been putting this one off because I miss Heath Ledger The ghost of David Lynch watched it with me. He thought the film would be better with Monica Bellucci in the roles of the brothers. I agreed but thought it should have been Lena Hedley. We agreed it was weird to see so much cgi in a Gilliam film. He then lit a ghost cigarette and disappeared and I contemplated listening to the commentary
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Ttiff 8 月 10, 2026
Apparently was obsessed with this movie as a sick child and now cannot imagine this being for children
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The star is for the set dressing. Everything else belongs in a fire. This is a stain on Heath Ledger’s career.
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would’ve rated this higher if they didn’t do that to the cat (I am that petty)
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heath ledger playing matt damon’s anxious nerdy author brother what more could you ask for
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Who is this movie for?????
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I miss movies from the 2000’s but I also miss my life before watching two brothers share a girlfriend. Thanks Abby ur 2/2
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I liked it! Heath ledger and Matt Damon’s chemistry is really solid and the wackiness of it all is appreciated by me! I do think there’s a version of this that could be better somewhere, as I hear this movie had its problems in production, but ya know, such is life. Lena heady is good here too. Just goes to show that back then, even bad movies had heart and were made with intention. I did not know who the…
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pura flama
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Matt Damon e Heath Ledger funcionam bem como os irmãos protagonistas, principalmente pela dinâmica entre os dois, enquanto Monica Bellucci acrescenta aquele elemento de fantasia gótica que o filme claramente adora explorar. O problema está no roteiro, que tenta juntar tantas ideias, personagens e referências aos contos de fadas que a narrativa acaba ficando confusa e episódica.
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SSMKB 8 月 8, 2026
Halfway through we forgot Heath ledger’s name and called him both Hugh Laurie and
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grew up watching it, i’ve probably seen it 10000 times it’s so good
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This is a bad movie
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Apparently cersei is a trapper now ? That is NOT the gingerbread man
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The armor Matt Damon wore at the beginning kinda reminded me of his character on Dogma.
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Vetefan vad jag sett på asså? Bra rollista och regissör men blir bara film-som-går-på-bakgrunden-på-lilla wien-eller-kanske-wollmars-slop om ens de. Finns något roligt skämt om matt Damon och Odysseus men kommer inte på det
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This annoyed me a lot but it was kinda cool, I guess.
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It seems impossible but apparently famously chill guys Terry Gilliam and Harvey Weinstein had a bit of a contentious relationship during the production of this! Sad that this isn’t better, given that the premise is strong, the director is well suited to the material and the leads are a nice pairing. Especially unfortunate given his few Ledger performances we got before his untimely passing that this is such a swing and a miss.
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Ce film me terrifiait quand j’avais 8 ans
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The cgi REALLY doesn’t hold up, but I can’t argue and say the costumes weren’t good and very well designed for each character. And in a way it felt kinda nostalgic to watch even if it was my first time seeing it.
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Upon rewatch, still such a tight, consistent, well made film. One of the more cohesive Gilliam outings. The acting, the visual effects, and the narrative all strike the right harmonious chord.
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thank goodness I saw it this year and not when I was 6 years old
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The Brothers Grimm looks like a fairy tale, but beneath the enchanted forests, crooked towers and grotesque creatures, it feels more like a funeral for innocence. Terry Gilliam’s 2005 film drags the familiar mythology of the Brothers Grimm through the mud and leaves it there to rot. This isn’t the soft, sanitised world of childhood bedtime stories. Here, folklore feels like something that crawled out of the collective unconscious something humanity invented because reality itself was too frightening to explain.…
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Geen herinnering meer aan.
- Synopsis
- Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
- Director
- Terry Gilliam
- Writer
- Ehren Kruger
- Studio
- Summit Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment, Mosaic Media Group, Dimension Films
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, French, German, Italian
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 118 mins
- Mexico01 Sep 2005
- Italy04 Sep 2005
- Finland19 Sep 2005
- Greece25 Sep 2005
- UK31 Oct 2005
- USA26 Aug 2005
- Philippines07 Sep 2005
- Hong Kong08 Sep 2005
- Mexico09 Sep 2005
- Israel15 Sep 2005
- Portugal29 Sep 2005
- Denmark30 Sep 2005
- Belgium05 Oct 2005
- Germany06 Oct 2005
- Austria07 Oct 2005
- Netherlands13 Oct 2005
- Sweden14 Oct 2005
- Finland21 Oct 2005
- UK03 Nov 2005
- UK04 Nov 2005
- Czechia10 Nov 2005
- Italy11 Nov 2005
- South Korea17 Nov 2005
- Australia24 Nov 2005
- Kuwait30 Nov 2005
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