Brothers Grimm

[dalekboy]

Terry Gilliam is one of my favourite directors, even though he made the Brothers Grimm. If I had remembered that he was the director going in to this movie, I suspect I would have been even more disappointed. I found it to be a film with a reasonable script and cool ideas struggling against the might of all it's male leads playing for laughs. The women play straight and it works, but the guys... *sigh*

I suspect if the film had been played straight, I would have enjoyed it much more. As it was, I found it irritating. It's the first film where I very nearly walked out of the cinema because it was so very annoying.

I'll probably rewatch it in a few years time and see what I think. I have hated films before and found them enjoyable on a rewatch, but somehow I don't think this will be one of them. I went in expecting good, dumb fun. Well, it was dumb, anyway.

Cheers,
Danny

Comments

[mortonhall.livejournal.com]

poop. I was looking forward to that one...

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Apparently the entire production got shafted royally from development to final cut by Harvey Weinstein - or at least that's what I read.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning.

It was already dangerously low on my list of priorities given how often I get to the cinema. This way I won't be particularly disappointed if I miss it altogether.

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

we just got back from seeing it...

where it worked, it REALLY worked... but where it fell, it -REALLY- fell and that was what irritated me so much.

that and it was ridiculously too long.