The manic, messy and magical style of director Terry Gilliam
(Brazil, 12 Monkeys) defines this clever riff on fairy tales, in which the title brothers (Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, both delightfully light on their feet) pretend to be ghostbusters in 19th-century Germany. Like Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves and Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Brothers Grimm isn’t for children but for adults who want to relive the bedtime tales of their childhood.
