The Brothers Grimm

The spell book in the castle changes position on the table.

The band at the pub includes a tuba, which was invented in the 1830s.

When Jacob flies through the tower window and smashes into the floor, the handle of the "metal" ax in his hand bends.

When Wilhelm falls out of the the tower, a section of the ground bounces when he lands, showing the crash mat hidden under the leaves.

When the blob of mud is chasing Sasha, the extras in the background appear and disappear several times.

When Angelika cuts the ropes from Will and Jacob's feet in the burning forest, the ax never strikes the ropes when they are cut.

When Jake launches himself toward the tower, the stretch on his trousers and shirt where the wires are attached is visible as he falls.

Cavaldi says the brothers sell "the oil of the snake.

" Fake remedies were first called "snake oil" in the 1800s in the American west.

"Jack and the Beanstalk" was not written by the Brothers Grimm.

It's an old English tale, and not well-known in Germany.

When the general drinks wine as the forest burns, the overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" ("The Thieving Magpie") plays.

The film opens in 1796, and the scene takes place 15 years later, in 1811.

"La Gazza Ladra" was composed in 1817.

When Cavaldi is approached the bed where Will and the twins are sleeping, the twin in Will's right arm is sleeping on her left side, almost completely on her stomach.

In the next frame, when she reacts to presence by looks up at Cavaldi, she is lying flat on her back.

Sasha loses her face to the goop in the well.

When Angelika hands Sasha to the captain, Sasha's face reappears for a split second.

In the next shot, her face is gone.

At the beginning of the movie, Will rides a gray Andalusian.

When he and Jacob ride into the forest with the trapper, Will rides a fat gray mule.

Jacob is on the same horse, with no explanation of why Will changed horses.

When the Grimm Brothers reach Karlstadt, they tell the guard they came from "Kassel, near Frankfurt.

" Kassel is about 200 km from Frankfurt, while Karlstadt is about 100 km from Frankfurt.

In the forest of Marbaden, when Delatombe's valet pours his wine, the wine in the carafe is red, but the wine in Delatombe's glass is white.

When Will and Jacob escape, none of the ladders' rungs break.

Later on, a few rungs have snapped.

Brahms' Lullaby is heard throughout the movie, both in the soundtrack and whistled by the characters.

Brahms was born in 1833, decades after the movie takes place.

The drill and blades in the "grape press" torture device used on Angelica are spiraling in the wrong direction to be mechanically effective; the drill would pull upwards and the blades would bludgeon on the flat side instead of cut.

When cranking the brother out of the well, the "ratchet" is reversed.

It would never lock to hold its position as it was turned.

When Will cracks the magic mirror, it causes no ill effect on the queen, and apparently repairs itself, since the crack is not visible in later shots.

However, Jakob later chops up the mirror, which does not repair itself and causes the queen to crack apart accordingly.

I just saw this on the telly and it was awful! What a terrible script, and a terrible story.

Steven Spielberg is often accused of being one of those directors who try to "awaken the child in all of us." This accusation, unfortunately, is largely true Spielberg's sentimental idealization of childhood has at times overwhelmed his considerable skill at depicting it.

Saturday evenings have turned into family movie night at our house, and "The Brothers Grimm" wound up at the top of the pile last night. Starting out reasonably enough, it looked like this was going to be a different kind of take on the traditional fairy tales of my childhood.

This movie is very tedious to watch. The story is a "mystery" a 2-year-old could solve and the story could have been told out in 5 minutes.

A very funny film which is nothing but a patchwork of Grimm characters and Grimm fairy tales, all mixed up and all crisscrossed together with some unavoidable details or situations, though there is no kissing of frogs, yet a little bit of licking a toad, and of course the kissing of a princess who is a witch and yet a princess and finally the kissing of a Grimm brother by the witch princess, or is it Veronica, and all that works.Nature is totally crazy with walking trees, burning forests and magic towers in the middle of a bewitched country.

It is humoring and engaging! I could watch this movie over and over again.

I know the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, but this film has nothing to do with it. The story was weak and the plot consisted of poor CGI.

A Terry Gilliam's film. imagination, seductive story, easy to criticize, good actors.

For now, i use my credits to complete filmography of my Pantheon. The first honored is Lena Headey, whom i discovered as the courageous Queen Gorgo.