 Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post wrote that " The Brothers Grimm looks terrific , yet it remains essentially inert . You keep waiting for something to happen , and after a while your mind wanders from the hollow frenzy up there with all its filigrees and fretwork . " Mick LaSalle from the San Francisco Chronicle felt " despite an appealing actor in each role , the entire cast comes across as repellent . Will and Jake Grimm are two guys in the woods , surrounded by computerized animals , putting audiences to sleep all over America . " Peter Travers , writing in Rolling Stone magazine , largely enjoyed The Brothers Grimm . He explained that " if you 're a Gilliam junkie , as I am , you go with it , even when the script loses its shaky hold on coherence . " Travers added , " even when Gilliam flies off the rails , his images stick with you . " Gene Seymour of Newsday called the film " a great compound of rip @-@ snorting Gothic fantasy and Python @-@ esque dark comedy " . 
