Fairytale Sand Castles...
So i went to a movie this weekend, it looked pretty cool in the previews, with witches, warewolves, armor, a town in peril and two brothers who save them from the enchantments that sucumb them. These were the "Brothers Grimm", con artists at their best. And overall I did have fun watching it.
This film is very slow at first, trying to put in place the story of the brothers Grimm (Matt Damon & Heath Ledger), who go from town to town promising and delivering in getting rid of enchantments, curses and so forth that haunt the peoples of the town. What the people don't know is that the same Brothers who save them are the ones who plant the supposed "enchantment" in the town in the first place so they can later on go there, get rid of it, and charge for their services, taking into account old stories and fairytales in each town so the townspeople can believe that there actually are witches and deamons haunting them.
It is not until the brothers are caught and sent on a mission to get rid of a curse in a town that is actually true, they don't really know what to do because they don't really believe that it is for real. The little girls in this town are disappearing, one by one, one is wearing a red riding hood, another is looking for water in a river, another is wearing glass slippers, and the witch that's behind all of this (The Matrix Reloaded's Monica Bellucci) has long hair coming out of her tower reaching the ground, as you can see, all of these are related to present time fairy tales "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Hansel & Grettel", etc., because it is my understanting that the real "Brothers Grimm" are the one who created those fairy tales we know now as Disney movies. So it is not until we find out the actual purpose of this movie, which is like 1/3 into the movie, that you can get really interested in the plot, when the story of why the witch is capturing all these little girls, and how the brothers, with the help (or lack thereof) of the soldiers that are guarding them, are going to get rid of an actual enchantment.
Overall, it is enterntaining, the visuals are, if not totally unique, very impressive and great to watch. But that lack of a good and interesting building point for the movie makes it feel dull at first, and maybe that is why when the good part comes it feels great, to compensate for the bad beginning.
My Grade: C+
This film is very slow at first, trying to put in place the story of the brothers Grimm (Matt Damon & Heath Ledger), who go from town to town promising and delivering in getting rid of enchantments, curses and so forth that haunt the peoples of the town. What the people don't know is that the same Brothers who save them are the ones who plant the supposed "enchantment" in the town in the first place so they can later on go there, get rid of it, and charge for their services, taking into account old stories and fairytales in each town so the townspeople can believe that there actually are witches and deamons haunting them.
It is not until the brothers are caught and sent on a mission to get rid of a curse in a town that is actually true, they don't really know what to do because they don't really believe that it is for real. The little girls in this town are disappearing, one by one, one is wearing a red riding hood, another is looking for water in a river, another is wearing glass slippers, and the witch that's behind all of this (The Matrix Reloaded's Monica Bellucci) has long hair coming out of her tower reaching the ground, as you can see, all of these are related to present time fairy tales "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Hansel & Grettel", etc., because it is my understanting that the real "Brothers Grimm" are the one who created those fairy tales we know now as Disney movies. So it is not until we find out the actual purpose of this movie, which is like 1/3 into the movie, that you can get really interested in the plot, when the story of why the witch is capturing all these little girls, and how the brothers, with the help (or lack thereof) of the soldiers that are guarding them, are going to get rid of an actual enchantment.
Overall, it is enterntaining, the visuals are, if not totally unique, very impressive and great to watch. But that lack of a good and interesting building point for the movie makes it feel dull at first, and maybe that is why when the good part comes it feels great, to compensate for the bad beginning.
My Grade: C+
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