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Happily N'Ever After (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 76

Fresh: 3

Rotten:73

Average Rating: 3.1/10

Consensus: Happily N'Ever After has none of the moxy, edge, or postmodern wit of the other fairy-tales-gone-haywire CG movie it so blatantly rips off.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for some mild action and rude humor.

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Childrens

Theatrical Release:Jan 5, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $15,519,841

Synopsis: For those who couldn't get enough of SHREK, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER supplies a similar take on fairy-tale traditions. Set in Fairy Tale Land, this comedy features the heroes and villains of stories... For those who couldn't get enough of SHREK, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER supplies a similar take on fairy-tale traditions. Set in Fairy Tale Land, this comedy features the heroes and villains of stories from Rumplestiltskin to Sleeping Beauty. The job of the wizard (George Carlin) is to ensure everyone has happy endings. But when he leaves on vacation, he entrusts his tasks to his inept assistants, and Cinderella's evil stepmother (Sigourney Weaver) begins to wreak havoc on the endings of fairy tales. Though she's interested in menace in general, she particularly wants her stepdaughter, Ella (Sarah Michelle Gellar), to suffer. She vows to keep her from Prince Charming (Patrick Warburton), much to the delight of his servant, Rick (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), who is in love with Ella himself. HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER takes aim at the stories everyone knows by heart. Here Prince Charming needs a guidebook to behave like royalty, with Warburton fashioning a delightfully doltish contrast to traditional romantic heroes. Character actor Jon Polito plays a big bad wolf who could have been an extra on GOODFELLAS. As the wicked stepmother, Weaver turns decades of experience playing strong women into portraying this archetypal baddie. With its celebrity voices, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is an amusing reversal of Disney's fairy-tale films of the past. [More]

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin, Andy Dick, Michael McShane, Patrick Warburton, Wallace Shawn, Jon Polito

Director: Paul J. Bolger

Director: Paul J. Bolger
Screenwriter: Rob Moreland
Producer: John H. Williams
Composer: Paul Buckley
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Despite attempts to turn the fairytale genre on its head, the characters are predictable stereotypes.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/23/08
Rose Longhurst
Channel 4 Film

Clunkingly obvious.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
08/03/07
Ann Kelly
BBC

Happily N’Ever After finally arrives, looking like a cheapo knock-off of DreamWorks’ ogre.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
08/03/07
Total Film

Shrek this ain't. A lacklustre effort hampered by limp dialogue and lazy plotting.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
08/03/07
Simon Braund
Empire Magazine

The computerised animation is cut-rate; the script keeps piling on clunker jokes that even toddlers will find lame; and Prinze proves he isn’t any better an actor in two dimensions than he is in three.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
08/01/07
David Fear
Time Out

Deeply lame.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
06/04/07
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

If you're old enough to read this sentence, you should probably go see something else.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
03/24/07
Brian Tallerico
UGO

...lives up to the promise of it’s title

Full Review Source: Sean the Movie Guy | comment Comment
03/07/07
Sean McBride
Sean the Movie Guy

It ain't Shrek, but it ain't dreck.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
02/06/07
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International

I'll happily never watch it again..

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
02/04/07
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

You expect a certain amount of sugar and snark in a modern children’s film, but this tossed-off retelling reeks of folks just out to make a cheap buck.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
02/03/07
David Fear
Time Out New York

No child deserves Happily N'Ever After.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/20/07
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

The only real laughs are supplied by the Seven Dwarfs, who are portrayed as hillbilly garden gnomes.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
01/15/07
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Tolerable, but far from magical, "Happily N'Ever After" is just another one of what is becoming a genre: Lackluster CGI_animated films.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
01/14/07
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

It is Shrek-Lite.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | comment Comment
01/13/07
Janos Gereben
Entertainment Insiders

When played with stale jokey-jokes and lame one-liners, as it is here, it’s not funny at all.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
01/13/07
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

The story...is as arbitrary and pointless as the apostrophe in the second word of the title...

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
01/11/07
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Happily N'Ever After is more appropriate as DVD fodder.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
01/11/07
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Happily N'Ever After is a cutting edge contraction for Happily Not Ever After. It's a shame other films weren't blessed with this hip foresight, otherwise we'd have N'Another Teen Movie and The World is N'Enough.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
01/11/07
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

The CGI animation is third-rate and unimaginative. The screenplay isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is . . . In short, HAPPILYN'EVER AFTER is a disappointment.

Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/10/07
Ted Murphy
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