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.

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

Great childrens film with some amazing effects for its time.