Tuesday, January 03, 2006

2 (Dumb) Monkeys AKA The Brothers Grimm


Wow, I never thought Terry Gilliam could crank out a stinker like The Brothers Grimm. He hadn't directed since 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and this is the crap we get after a seven year wait? As expected the film is visually stimulating, kind of like a ball of yarn to a cat. However once the ball is unwound there is nothing there. Matt Damon, along with his Anthony Robbins teeth, and Heath Ledger's characters seem lifted directly from Oldman/Roth's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The movie begins with the Grimm Brothers staging fake ghostly exorcisms for profit and then are forced to exorcise the real thing in Monica Bellucci. I liked this plot when it was called The Three Amigos.

When I first heard Gilliam was going to tackle the Grimm fairy tales it sounded like a home run. How could it not be? I also liked writer Ehren Kruger's "Skeleton Key" but this combo didn't work at all. The worst part is that the ending has the cheesy "there might be a sequel" shot that leads me to believe the filmmakers had no idea of the slice of shit they were serving up.

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