Michael Cohn's gothic adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' tale just never gets grim enough, it has to be said, due mainly to the unnecessarily ponderous first hour, during which not a great deal happens. It all looks authentically menacing though, and things do eventually hot up when Sigourney Weaver's splendidly sinister and sexy witch is finally allowed to let rip and totally steal the show from a disappointingly lacklustre Snow White.
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THE BROTHERS GRIMM (2005)
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Will and Jake Grimm travel the land collecting and imparting magical tales to the villages they visit, but their real money spinner is the age old con, creating elaborate scenarios whereby they rid the locals of various imagined demons of the night. This being the 19th Century and a Terry Gilliam film it is inevitable that the two are eventually confronted by the dark tales of fear and superstition that they weave. When Will and Jake arrive at one particular village they find the folk under the
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