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Mar 30, 2006

The Brothers Grimm

There does exist such a thing as a good (or at least funny) campy movie. Unfortunately, this is not it. It doesn't even approach the same approximate artistic universe as "good".

I think the main problem was that the timing of comic delivery was completely off. Jokes properly have a sort of rythym to them; introduce an element at the wrong time (or incoherently), and the humor falls flat.

The one thing that I found somewhat interesting about the movie was that I thought Matt Damon was Heath Ledger for approximately the first 20 minutes. No kidding. While Matt Damon's acting was depressingly wooden (wasn't this guy in The Bourne Identity?), I thought Heath Ledger did a fairly good job; good enough, at least, that I didn't recognize him. Of course, that could have just been the makeup and the general disorientation caused by the bizarre Italian-French-German juxtaposition going on.

Woof.
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Jennifer Snow said...

According to the comments I've seen, it's fairly typical of Terry Gilliam's work, so you may enjoy it. My problem was that a lot of the conversation just didn't add up very well, well, that and the ridiculous over-acting wasn't well-done enough to be funny.

I'd suggest giving it a miss, it's an hour and a half you could better spend doing something else.

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