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But the biggest weaknesses are mixed moods and unreconciled ideas; it's unclear just why the movie was even made. The core idea was probably what got the project greenlighted. It's a fairy tale about Jakob and Wlhelm Grimm, the 19th century German collectors of folk tales that had been passed along orally one generation to the next... Click below to read the full review... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/movies/revs/grimm.shtml B&W: Critically Acclaimed Loudspeakers From $200 Per Pair Bower's and Wilkins loudspeakers have led the industry in innovation since 1966. Today, the company produces outstanding speakers for hi fi, home theater and custom installation projects with prices ranging from $200 per pair to $40,000 per pair. Visit www.bwspeakers.com to find your nearest authorized dealer, or call 978-664-2870. 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But the movie is all over the place, with the sequences scattered through time occurring in what seems to be random, arbitrary order. And the style of the sequences is just as arbitrary; Sean Connery is impressively masculine and dynamic as King Agamemnon of ancient Greece, a sequence treated as seriously -- but far more realistically -- as any Hollywood epic. But this follows the sequence with John Cleese as a very cheerful, highly anachronistic Robin Hood, full of veddy British bonhomie; his dialog is studded with "rather" and "I say" and "crikey" and "jolly," and he bids farewell with "cheerio." Both sequences are entertaining, although the Robin Hood sequence depends entirely upon John Cleese's comic abilities to carry it -- but he's more than up to the task. However, they seem to come from radically different movies, one a serious tale of a boy wandering through time, the other from a Monty Python TV sketch. To a degree, complaining about these two sequences being so different stems from a sense of fastidiousness: movies should be of a whole, the theory goes... Click below to read the full review... http://www.audiorevolution.com/dvd/revs/timebandits.shtml Life of Brian When this wise and funny movie was first released in the United States, it created a mini-furor that prefigured the much noisier one that surrounded Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ a few years later. The religiously inflexible regarded Life of Brian as nothing less than blasphemy, creating enough intolerant clamor that the film didn't get as many bookings as it deserved. Thankfully, the busy, gutsy video company Anchor Bay Entertainment has now issued the film in a handsome DVD package. It's short on extras -- the usual trailer and talent biographies (though these are excellent) -- but the print is exceptionally good, the sound crisp and vivid, and the packaging appropriate. It's hard to read the titles on a small screen, but what the heck. Life of Brian is the best of the Monty Python movies; it's probably not as funny overall as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but it's more focused, more daring and less gimmicky and less dated. This movie simply does not look like it was made 20 years ago. Most of the Pythons were history buffs, particularly Graham Chapman, who plays Brian (and a few other roles); they knew that at the time Jesus lived, the region was rife with rumors of Messiahs, and that other preachers and religious figures had been identified as the Messiah, too -- and this is what happens to hapless Brian. Click below to read the full review... http://www.audiorevolution.com/dvd/revs/lifeofbrian.shtml Check out our DVD review archive below... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/dvd/main.shtml Outlaw Audio's $1099 Model 990 AV Preamp - "Too Good To Be True..." --"Although the Model 990 seems to good to be true, it's not. 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