Ella Enchanted Reviews

Before watching this flick, I had some rather low expectations but, honestly, it was even worse than I thought. Since I have 3 kids, I watch a lot familly features and cartoons. Some are great like everything done by Pixar, Wallace and Gromit, 'Fantastic Mr Fox' or 'Spirited away' and the rest is usually pretty average or even damned terrible. This flick definitely belongs to the 2nd group. I mean, I'm not surprised it was a flop when it came out and I really can't understand why Roger Ebert was so enthousiast about (one of the very few times I completely disagreed with him). Anyway, I thought the whole thing was an inane and boring modern fairy tale, some kind of mix of a classic fairy tale with a little bit of 'Shrek' and some bits of 'The Princess Bride'. I have nothing against Anne Hathaway and she is quite charming and all but I really didn't care about her character and what she was going through. To conclude, I thought it was pretty bad, it is definitely not worth a look and if you want to watch something with your kids, just watch 'The Princess Bride' instead.

I have been wanting to see this movie ever since I saw commercials on TV for it. Unfortunately, I just now got around to seeing it---and I wasn't disappointed in my expectations for this movie.

Silly? Yes, without a doubt.
Entertaining? Definitely.

I knew this movie would be a silly one long before I ever saw it, but I am glad to see that, in this case, the silliness doesn't make overall enjoyment an impossibility.

Cary Elwes is great as the scheming, power-hungry, evil uncle, and this story has hints of various fairytales in it. This is a good, clean, family movie that everyone can enjoy.

And I didn't completely hate the scene where Anne Hathaway sings "Somebody to Love". The only thing I didn't enjoy? Vivica A. Fox......she can't act. The best part about her character was that she was barely seen in the movie, AND she played a fairy that people didn't want around!