The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Everything right and everything wrong with the film can be summed up in one word: CINERAMA. It presents vistas and visuals that are truly breathtaking, and it utterly fails at the one thing a movie with "Brothers Grimm" in the title should not fail at: the storytelling. Twee and Precious. Only the sights amaze, and they don't amaze enough to hold one's attention for two hours and fifteen minutes.

Great childrens film with some amazing effects for its time.

George Pal's most ambitious film, combining a fictionalized look at the lives of the Brothers with three of their stories: "The Dancing Princess", "The Cobbler and the Elves", and "The Singing Bone". Uneven, to be sure, with a frequently clunky script and a cast which too often overacts or is overwhelmed by the Cinerama process, but which offers some moments of genuine charm and delight throughout...and a strange, vaguely Pirandellian scene where the Grimms' characters demand to