There’s no happy ending here, or a happy beginning or middle, for that matter. That’s the one consistent thing in Terry Gilliam’s latest film, which is plagued by inconsistency. Working from a script by Ehren Kruger, Gilliam is all over the place this time. It’s as if he doesn’t know what he wants his film to be. A loopy farce? A lavish costume piece? A high-energy action film? In the midst of all this madness are Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as brothers Will and Jacob Grimm, fictionalized incarnations of the real-life brothers Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob. Rated: PG-13. Rating: 1 1/2 out of 4 stars.

– Christy Lemire, AP movie critic