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Ella Enchanted (2004)
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Reviews Counted:111
Fresh:55
Rotten:56
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Hathaway is a charming heroine, but the simple storyline gets overwhelmed by silly gimmickry.
Theatrical Release:Apr 9, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $22,811,339
Synopsis: Similar to SHREK and THE PRINCESS BRIDE, this fantasy adventure, based on a book by Gail Carson Levine, combines fairy tale with sly, 21st century pop humor. Teenage Ella (THE PRINCESS DIARIES'... [More]
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Joanna Lumley, Cary Elwes
Director: Tommy O'Haver
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Hathaway is gorgeous and goofy (in a young Julia Roberts way), but the film doesn't know if it wants to be postmodern cool or silly fun.
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06/24/06
uses the archetypal story of Cinderella to skewer convention with that most deadly and effective of weapons: humor
03/27/04
The film's lush scenery and sharp modern twists cast a powerful spell.
04/09/04
Someone should tell O’Haver and the gaggle of writers it took to write this unenchanted mess that updated doesn’t have to mean washed-up and dumbed-down.
04/23/04
Looks an awful lot like "Shrek," down to the funky closing dance sequence.
04/22/04
Occasionally fun but too reliant on gimmicks and purloined plotlines to rank alongside the better kids' movies.
04/08/04
Top CriticElla embraces the conventions of the fairy tale . . . while simultaneously gently spoofing them.
04/09/04
Like The Phantom Tollbooth and the cult TV series H.R. Puffnstuff, this film appears to have convalesced into head-trip allegories for older, pharmaceutically-savvy viewers.
04/12/04
Though its moral is 'to thine own self be true,' the filmmakers failed to listen to its spin-doctored Cinderella and instead recycle elements of Shrek, The Lion King, and Lizzie McGuire.
04/08/04
Top CriticAn enchanting little story that will make you smile.
04/09/04
From the very beginning, the film’s primary dysfunction is that it can’t decide exactly how smarmy or adorably postmodern it wants to be.
03/28/04
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