Prepare to be disappointed be the maverick, eccentric and
intermittently brilliant Terry Gilliams original, inventive and frantic take
on the famous fairy tale creators Wilhelm and Jacob, The Brothers Grimm.
Conceived as roving charlatans peddling their tales to a gullible German public
in the time of Napoleon, the brothers are eventually exposed and exiled to an
enchanted forest where riotous imagings take hold. Visually excessive and
frenetically paced, the movie loses whatever plot it may have started with and
veers into silliness and tedium. Nevertheless, a lot more entertaining than
much that Hollywood
is churning out at the moment.