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The Brothers Grimm (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The spell book in the castle changes position on the table.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the dancing scene in the pub, the band playing contains a tuba. The tuba was not invented until the mid-1830s.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The "metal" axe in his hand bends as Jacob flies through the window of the tower and smashes into the floor.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Wilhelm falls out the tower at the end, and when he hits the floor you can clearly see a whole section of it bounce, showing the crash mat hidden under the leaves.
  
  
• Continuity: When the blob of mud is chasing Sasha, the extras in the background appear and disappear several times.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When entering Karlstadt the Grimm Brothers said to the guard they came "?from Kassel near Frankfurt". Kassel is pretty far away from Frankfurt (approx 200 km) and Karlstadt is much closer (approx 100 km).
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Delatombe's valet is pouring his wine at the forest of Marbaden, the wine in the carafe appears to be red, but the wine in Delatombe's glass is white.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Angelika is cutting the ropes from Will and Jacob's feet in the burning forest, you can see that the ax does not even strike the ropes when they are cut. Also none of the ladders' rungs are broken as they escape, however later on you see the ladders' have a few rungs snapped.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jake launches himself toward the tower, the stretch on his trousers and shirt where the wires are attached is visible as he falls.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Cavaldi refers to the brothers "selling the oil of the snake." Snake oil is a reference to fake remedies from the 1800s in the American west.
  
  
• Factual errors: "Jack and the Beanstalk" was not written down by the Brothers Grimm, it is an old English tale which isn't very well-known in Germany.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the general drinks wine during the burning of the forest, the music playing is the overture to Rossini's opera "La Gazza Ladra" ("The Thieving Magpie"). Taken that the year stated in the opening caption is 1796 and the caption in the next scene reads "15 years later", that would bring us to 1811. "La Gazza Ladra" was not composed until 1817.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Through out the movie Brahms’ Lullaby can be heard, both whistled by the characters and in the soundtrack. However Brahms was not born until 1833, decades after the time-frame of the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the film, when Cavaldi is approaching the bed where Will and the twins are sleeping, the twin in Will's right arm is sleeping on her left side, almost completely over on her stomach, yet a frame later, as she reacts to Cavaldi's presence by looking up at him, she is lying flat on her back.
  
  
• Continuity: After Sasha loses her face to the goop in the well.When Angelika hands Sasha to the captain you can see for a brief second that Sasha facial features can clearly be shown but in the next shot she has no face again.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, Will is riding a beautiful gray Andalusian. When he and Jacob ride into the forest with the trapper, he is seen riding a fat gray mule. There is no explanation given as to why he is riding a different horse, when Jacob is riding the same horse as in the beginning of the movie.
  
  

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