Happily N'Ever After [US Import] Reviews

watching this made me realize how much we expect fair tales to look like disney films now. this film both deviates from that and swallows some of it as well.

it doesn't really look like a disney film and sense people involved with shrek made this you won't be surprised that it has that sort've quality to it. eg a bit rough around the edges but this simply means its not completely glossed over as a disney film would be. if this was disney everything would reek of over thought, over produced, refined, researched, targeted, screened and re-edited, with not a hint of dust anywhere. thats all good and fine, nothing agaisnt disney's approach, but its actually nice to see something less watered down and synthetic shined. that what this film is. not perfect, but thoroughly watchable.

story: its cinderella with a twist. here she lusts over the prince, who is a schmuck. then there is his personal caretaker/"dishwasher" who is in love with cinderella. throw an unusual OZ character in the mix; a wizard who is in charge of watching over the fairy tales and keeping balance of good and evil in them. the wizard leaves it to his two assistants who are strange little creatures. they screw some thing up and worse cinderella's step-mom ends up in taking control over the wizard's magical scales and wand. she uses it to invite evil into town (ala trolls that look like domino's noids only fatter). cinderella searches for the prince to help the town...he's out searching for the girl who fits the slipper...and the dishwasher helps....and you'll know exactly where this is going. the only true surprise to the story is the rumpelstiltskin character...but its not important to the story.

i enjoyed this. its not perfect, its perdictable, but honestly i hope for more like it. (8/10)