Matt Damon

Heath Ledger

Lena Headey

Peter Stormare

Monica Bellucci

Mackenzie Crook

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Jonathan Pryce

Richard Ridings

Barbara Lukešová

Petr Ratimec

Anna Rust

Jeremy Robson

Radim Kalvoda

Martin Hofmann

Josef Pepa Nos

Harry Gilliam

Miroslav Táborský

Marika Procházková

Tomáš Hanák

Martin Kavan

Alena Jakobová

Dana Dohnalova

Petra Dohnalova

Audrey Hamm

Annika Murjahn

Eva Reiterová

Denisa Vokurkova

Hanuš Bor

Ota Filip

Lukáš Bech

Julian Bleach

Bruce MacEwen

Jan Unger

František Velecký

Laura Greenwood

Drahomíra Fialková

Jana Radojčičová

Petr Vršek

Denisa Malinovska

Bara Rudlova

Andrea Milackova

Daniela Kubickova

Hedvika Sochurková

Veronika Loulova

Věra Uzelacová

Simona Vcalová

Julie Venhauerova

Deborah Hyde

Václav Chalupa

Jiri Krejcir

Kamila Bruderova

Tomas Liska

Terry Gilliam

Newton Thomas Sigel

Daniel Bobker

Charles Roven

Tony Grisoni

Ehren Kruger

Dario Marianelli

Lesley Walker

Irene Lamb

Gabriella Pescucci

Carlo Poggioli

Jiří Sternwald

Frank Walsh

Steven Soderbergh

Jennifer Lane

Agnès Brun

Guy Hendrix Dyas

Andy Thomson

John T. Sweeney

Michel Cheyko

Jonathan Gordon

Chris McGurk

Jake Myers

Andrew Rona

John D. Schofield

Michael Solinger

Bob Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein

Keith Pain

Judy Farr

Lucie Jalovecka

Dominique Arcadio

Steve Bohan

Roger Holden

David Haberfield

Jan Blažíček

Jim Buchan

Andrej Kostic

Nicola Pecorini

Rebecca Steel Roven

Pete Cavaciuti

Jimmy E. Jensen

Giampaolo Bagalà

Hynek Jecha

Jaromír Kalina 

Flora Brancatella

Sarka Zvolenska

Vera Mitchell

Desideria Corridoni

Polly Earnshaw

Christine Beveridge

Karl Derrick

Milena Adamová

Maria Hubackova

Jaroslav Fiala

Craig Braginsky

Gustav Hoegen

Stéphane Linet

Tomáš Červenka

Miloš Černý

Jon D. Harris

John Paul Docherty

Martin Cerny

Marek Havel

Raymond Perry

Stanislav Suva

Mike Bocek

Zuzana Milfort

Johnny Cicco

Jiří Kuba

Nadine Buckley

Silvie Janculová

Roberto Malerba

Patric Scott

Stephen Bridgewater

Jeremy Hume

Mishka Cheyko

Nikki Clapp

David Rees

Gordon Brown

Martin Corbett

Daniele Cafolla

Tomas Beseda

Ondrej Bocek

Cinzia Pegorin

Kamil Zvonicek

Michal Houzvicka

Tim Clawson

Karen McLuskey

Ondřej Sláma

Barry O'Sullivan

Robin Knapp

James Bellamy

Maggie Rodford

Benjamin Wallfisch

Ivan Sharrock

Alastair Sirkett

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Does 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 really be appreciated by people that thought they could out Thompson Hunter Thompson in their youth... wink wink nudge nudge, if you know what I mean.

The only real draw back is that Damon doesn't seem to fit in his role, and he doesn't really seem to fit in a Gilliam film...but surprisingly Ledger seems perfectly at home in that kind of world and you get the sense that he enjoyed acting the part as much as you are enjoying watching him act the part.

And then here and there you get a joke, a sight gag, a little hint that reminds you that, yeah, Gilliam was in Python wasn't he? That's something that you'd see in the Flying Circus shoved in there. Almost to the point where you can't but stop and wonder if he was channeling Idle or Chapman for some of the dialogue and physical humor.

It's a Gilliam film, made for adults, with Warner Brothers Cartoon violence. It's trippy and fun and it might not be your cup of tea, but I loved it.

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Well 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" (Jonathan Pryce) is on to their scamming and decides it's time to get them to prove their worth. Where are the sprogs? Well to save their necks, the not so dynamic duo have to deal with a seriously malevolent and fantastic foe in the "Mirror Queen" (the sparingly used Monica Bellucci) who wants to take over the world kind of thing. What now ensues are a series of typical Gilliam-esque escapades using a mediaeval backdrop to facilitate the borderline slapstick antics of the siblings trying to save their bacon. At times it is quite amusing offering some enjoyable parodies of established fairy tales, and the script does deliver a few entertaining quips as we go along but it seems unsure just who it's for. There's some darkness and good, old-fashioned, evil - but not enough of that. It's as if it was trying to be scary but hadn't quite the courage (to settle for a higher age rating, maybe?). As it is, it falls between two stools leaving us with an undercooked and overlong, slightly repetitious, series of frying pan to fire scenarios that even the engaging Ledger can't spin out for two hours. Damon doesn't really add much and Pryce is just in uniformed ham mode through his brief appearances. If you know the works of the brothers, it will make much more sense and some of it's observations about superstitions and the society in which the peasantry and gentry lived are quite witty, but they are all to often lost in a sea of mediocrity.

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Written by GenerationofSwine on Thu Jan 12 2023

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