Terry Gilliam is very much a hit-or-miss director for me: Brazil and 12 Monkeys are classics, and The Fisher King is weird but eminently watchable -- but I can't imagine why anyone would ever watch Holy Grail more than once and I've never been able to watch Time Bandits without falling asleep.

The Brothers Grimm falls between Fisher King and Holy Grail for me. It's very strange, a little bit boring in places, and it just doesn't hit the heights that his earlier, better work does -- but it's still a Gilliam movie and thus it's still worth watching.

I liked it well enough. It's just not great.

The real Gilliam diamond-in-the-rough, the one hardly anybody has watched but everybody should, is the movie he didn't direct but starred in: Lost in La Mancha, the documentary about his doomed Quixote project. I know I've mentioned it before.