History YMMV / TheBrothersGrimm

* HilariousInHindsight:
** You're telling me that [[Series/GameOfThrones Cersei Lannister]] is menaced by an [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Evil Queen]] who is jealous of other women's youth and beauty?
** Creator/JonathanPryce plays a [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean government official]].

** The scene where Sasha wakes up during her funeral and hugs her father after the sleeping curse is lifted. It's decently cute, and some fans are confused about her fate without the scene due to how she only has an easy to miss cameo in the theatrical final scene.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Hidlick and Bunst are introduced as comical sidekicks who have some acting and social effects talents. However, rather than join the main adventure, they're held hostage to ensure Jake and Will's cooperation. When they do get released to help the brothers, all they do is be {{Lovable Coward}}s for a few minutes before they end up being executed anyway just to make Delatombe more despicable.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Gingerbread Man. It climbs up out of a well, kidnaps a little girl, and jumps back down the well just as quickly as it appeared. If it didn't explicitly ''say'' that it was the Gingerbread Man, you'd probably never have known thanks to the [[NightmareFuel utterly horrific]] [[UncannyValley and disturbing]] way it's presented, and unlike most of the other fairy tale-based elements and characters, it never appears again.

* UncannyValley: What makes the gingerbread man so terrifying.

* KarmicOverkill: In their version of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', the stepsisters have their ankles and toes cut by their mother in order to fit the shoe. At Cinderella's wedding with the prince, birds [[EyeScream pecks out their eyes]] rendering them blind and crippled for the rest of their life. While the stepsisters routinely bullied Cinderella, many find this punishment overly harsh since their behavior is very likely the result of bad parenting. Meanwhile, [[KarmaHoudini neither the WickedStepmother nor Cinderella's father face punishment]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The level of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence in many of the Grimms' ''Children's and Household Tales'' is pretty shocking by contemporary standards-- especially given, in a lot of cases, these are the versions the Grimms ''edited'' for children. (They took out many references to sex and raunchy humor from earlier editions, since that was considered inappropriate for kids, but left most of the violence intact.)

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: the Gingerbread Man. It climbs up out of a well, kidnaps a little girl, and jumps back down the well just as quickly as it appeared. If it didn't explicitly ''say'' that it was the Gingerbread Man, you'd probably never have known thanks to the [[NightmareFuel utterly horrific]] [[UncannyValley and disturbing]] way it's presented, and unlike most of the other fairy tale-based elements and characters, it never appears again.

* HilariousInHindsight: You are telling me that [[Series/GameOfThrones Cersei Lannister]] is menaced by an [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Evil Queen]] who is jealous of other women's youth and beauty?
** Creator/JonathanPryce playing a [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean government official]].
* HoYay: Bro Yay between the titular characters, who often argue like an old married couple. Even Lampshaded by Cavaldi.

* RetroactiveRecognition: You see Creator/LenaHeadey before playing ''Film/ThreeHundred'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The original stories have always been NightmareFuel specifically designed to scare the bajeezus out of any kid who hears them. The same thing here. Creator/TerryGilliam, however, has stated that he intended the film for children.
* TheWoobie: All the little girls (and Angelica), who are killed or put into a coma by the evil queen for their youth. And their parents and siblings.
** Also the poor little kitten that was sadistically kicked into a spinning blade.

!! Terry Gilliam film

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!! The Fairy Tales
* CommonKnowledge: The Brothers Grimm did not ''create'' these fairy tales, they were among the first and most notable to collect them into ''writing''. Even when some people point out that yes, the Brothers Grimm were actually collectors of folklore, they're often commonly recited as being the only ones - to the point in which some published "collections" include tales originally collected by Creator/AsbjornsenAndMoe (namely the Billy Goats Gruff), while omitting others that the Grimms ''did'' collect.
** Similarly, the tale of "Cinderella", referred to here as Aschenputtel, is ''not'' the original version - Charles Perrault published a version in the 17th century.
** "Rapunzel" does not appear to have any German origin with the earliest written story in the format of "The Maiden in The Tower" being [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrosinella Petrosinella]], written by an Italian author, Giambattista Basile. However, the version of the story that became the "Rapunzel" that most are familiar with was taken from "Persinette", written by French author, Mademoiselle de La Force, during her imprisonment in a convent.
* CompleteMonster:
** "Literature/HanselAndGretel" (KMH 015): The WickedWitch is the [[TropeCodifier archetype]] for the [[SolitarySorceress evil witch in the woods]]. Described as wicked and godless, she lays a trap with her edible house for children, whereupon she captures them, [[WouldHurtAChild kills them]], butchers and cooks them for her feasts. Upon capturing Hansel and Gretel, she attempts to [[FatteningTheVictim fatten up Hansel]], before growing tired of his seeming inability to gain weight. Intending on burning Gretel alive before eating her brother, the witch proves to be one of the most terrifying and evil monsters in any of the Grimm brothers' stories.
** "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm040.html The Robber Bridegroom]]" (KMH 040): [[TheBluebeard The Robber Bridegroom]] himself appears to be a charming suitor seeking the hand of the heroine in marriage. In truth, the Bridegroom is the head of a group of bandits and a cannibalistic SerialKiller who tricks the women into coming to his home whereupon they are murdered and [[ImAHumanitarian carved up for food]]. When the heroine visits and hides, she witnesses a young captive dragged in and killed by her fiancé and his men, realizing the fate that would await her, with the Robber Bridegroom being a dark reminder that [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon evil may hide beneath kind and trusted faces]].
** "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm046.html The Fitcher's Bird]]" (KMH 046): [[TheBluebeard The unnamed sorcerer]] poses as a poor beggar going from house to house to kidnap young women to be his brides. When he captures one of three sisters, he promises her a happy life so long as she doesn't enter a chamber while he's away. He gives her an egg to take care of to see if she'll pass his test. When she looks into the chamber and discovers the [[SerialKiller dismembered corpses of his previous victims]], he butchers her as punishment; he goes on to kidnap her sister, in which the process is repeated. Kidnapping the third sister, she proves clever enough to cheat his test and discover the truth, having her sisters magically re-assembled, whereupon they plan and carry out revenge by setting the sorcerer and his gang on fire at their wedding.
** "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm047.html The Juniper Tree]]" (KMH 047): The [[WickedStepmother evil stepmother]], upon marrying the husband, grew to resent her stepson, knowing that he would inherit the family's wealth when he got older. Forming a plan, she convinces her stepson into looking into a chest for an apple, only to then [[OffWithHisHead decapitate him]] by slamming the lid onto his neck. The stepmother uses a bandage to reattach her stepson's head, and she manipulates her daughter, Marlinchen (or Marlene in some versions), into thinking that she killed her own brother. She then takes the body, cooks it into a stew, and she serves it to her [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise unsuspecting husband]]. The story repeatedly makes it clear that the stepmother cared only for herself, and that she committed these actions out of {{greed}}, as well as a genuine hatred for her stepson.
* KarmicOverkill: In their version of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', the stepsisters have their ankles and toes cut by their mother in order to fit the shoe. At Cinderella's wedding with the prince, birds [[EyeScream pecks out their eyes]] rendering them blind and crippled for the rest of their life. While the stepsisters routinely bullied Cinderella, many find this punishment overly harsh since their behavior is very likely the result of bad parenting. Meanwhile, [[KarmaHoudini neither the WickedStepmother nor Cinderella's father face punishment]].
* ValuesDissonance: To modern readers, it can be pretty stupefying to consider that the [[GreedyJew antisemitic fairy tales]] such as "The Jew Among Thorns" were simply included alongside the rest as wholesome family entertainment.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The level of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence in many of the Grimms' ''Children's and Household Tales'' is pretty shocking by contemporary standards-- especially given, in a lot of cases, these are the versions the Grimms ''edited'' for children. (They took out many references to sex and raunchy humor from earlier editions, since that was considered inappropriate for kids, but left most of the violence intact.)

* TheWoobie: All the little girls (and Angelica), who are killed or put into a coma by the evil queen for their youth. [[AdultFear And their parents and siblings.]]

* TheWoobie: All the little girls (and Angelica), who are killed or put into a coma by the evil queen for their youth.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The level of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence in many of the Grimms' ''Children's and Household Tales'' is also pretty shocking by contemporary standards-- especially given, in a lot of cases, these are the versions the Grimms ''edited'' for children. (They took out many references to sex and raunchy humor from earlier editions, since that was considered inappropriate for kids, but left most of the violence intact.)

* ValuesDissonance: To modern readers, it can be pretty stupefying to consider that the [[GreedyJew antisemitic fairy tales]] such as "The Jew Among Thorns" were simply included alongside the rest as wholesome family entertainment.

** "[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm047.html The Juniper Tree]]" (KMH 047): The [[WickedStepmother evil stepmother]], upon marrying the husband, grew to resent her stepson, knowing that he would inherit the family's wealth when he got older. Forming a plan, she convinces her stepson into looking into a chest for an apple, only to then [[OffWithHisHead decapitate him]] by slamming the lid onto his neck. The stepmother uses a bandage to reattach her stepson's head, and she manipulates her daughter, Marlinchen (or Marlene in some versions), into thinking that she killed her own brother. She then takes the body, cooks it into a stew, and she serves it to her [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise unsuspecting husband]]. The story repeatedly makes it clear that the stepmother cared only for herself, and that she committed these actions out of {{greed}}, as well as a genuine hatred for her stepson.

* CommonKnowledge: The Brothers Grimm did not ''create'' these fairy tales, they were among the first to collect them into ''writing''.

** "Literature/HanselAndGretel" (KMH 15): The WickedWitch is the [[TropeCodifier archetype]] for the [[SolitarySorceress evil witch in the woods]]. Described as wicked and godless, she lays a trap with her edible house for children, whereupon she captures them, [[WouldHurtAChild kills them]], butchers and cooks them for her feasts. Upon capturing Hansel and Gretel, she attempts to [[FatteningTheVictim fatten up Hansel]], before growing tired of his seeming inability to gain weight. Intending on burning Gretel alive before eating her brother, the witch proves to be one of the most terrifying and evil monsters in any of the Grimm brothers' stories.

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