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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A joyless fantasy. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: There is magic in The Brothers Grimm but it's hard to locate amid all the ... 'stuff,' I believe is the technical phrase. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: A flawed but brilliantly imaginative mix of darkness and humor reminiscent of Hammer period chillers like Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter by way of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Its energy is impressive, but its effects are scattered. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: The Brothers Grimm has enough haunting, fairy-tale imagery for 10 movies, but no emotional kick to drive those images home. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's kind of cold and it's kind of a mess, but I thought it was a glorious mess and it looks so great and it is so interesting and there is so much going on that I have to recommend it on a very mild level. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A fractured fairy tale that's both too grim and not Grimm enough. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Fairy tales are all about feeding our imaginations, and Gilliam was only allowed to bring out the snack tray. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: An absurd mess that's more entertaining than it has any right to be. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Although Gilliam has always had a taste for the outre, he has allowed it to get out of hand here and swallow the picture whole. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Those who adore Terry Gilliam for his taunting French soldiers in Monty Python and the Holy Grail or his weird subversiveness in Brazil may find The Brothers Grimm to be a fairy tale gone sour. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: What we have here isn't a movie, it's a coffee-table book. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: It's worth watching even when it doesn't. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A pinata of visual effects that Gilliam keeps smashing, with diminishing returns. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: A messy fairy tale riff that overcompensates for a less-than-enchanting story with frenetic busyness. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: This is one of the most visually off-putting films ever made by a director who supposedly makes beautiful pictures. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: It's a muddle, but it's a Terry Gilliam muddle -- and there's nothing like his muddles anywhere in our uptight, color-within-the-lines mainstream. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: [Gilliam's] visual alchemy isn't magic enough to keep the story from slipping into incoherence. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Sometimes delightful, sometimes tedious, always creative. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Despite a few early sparks of promise, The Brothers Grimm sputters and coughs along like an unoiled machine, grinding gears and nerves in equal measure. Read more
Craig Outhier, Orange County Register: This time, Gilliam's storytelling is even more convoluted than his bookkeeping. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Too violent for children and too inane for anybody else. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Brothers Grimm is a work of limitless invention, but it is invention without pattern, chasing itself around the screen without finding a plot. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Director Terry Gilliam's strong visual sense is ideally suited to this material, and he and his special-effects crew have cooked up some dandy images. Still, the moral of this story is that sometimes slick pictures alone aren't enough. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: [Gilliam's] two great successes -- Time Bandits and especially Brazil -- were dazzling enough that he's been struggling ever since to prove that his best work isn't behind him. On the evidence here, the struggle continues. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The result is something that might best be called Monty Python and the Holy Mess. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: The best thing to be said about this expensive but drab wannabe mirthmaker is that it has some of its director's quirky touches. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: If only summer movies were, as a matter of course, this inventive, this modest, this interested -- even derisively -- in cultural legacies, this faithful to concept and setting. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Maybe not terrible so much as terminally silly. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Jammed with stuff and all but empty of drama. Read more