I'll happily never watch it again..
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02/04/07
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.
Theatrical Release:Jan 5, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $15,519,841
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin
Director: Paul J. Bolger
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Reviews for Happily N'Ever After
It wouldn‘t seem possible, but this is yet another fractured fairy tale in which the characters subvert their own genre in self-conscious, smart-alecky fashion.
01/04/07
Top CriticNo child deserves Happily N'Ever After.
01/20/07
A leaden, irritatingly obvious postmodern fairy tale.
01/05/07
Clunkingly obvious.
08/03/07
The film aims for sassy but lands in soggy, the victim of lazy scripting and pacing.
01/05/07
When played with stale jokey-jokes and lame one-liners, as it is here, it’s not funny at all.
01/13/07
This isn't unwatchable or boring. Not like Everyone's Hero, Open Season or Over the Hedge. But it's still so done.
01/06/07
Despite attempts to turn the fairytale genre on its head, the characters are predictable stereotypes.
06/23/08
The rationale behind this unattractive animated comedy, a U.S.-German coproduction, seems to be that since it can't create a fairy-tale world of its own, it might as well riffle through many of the more familiar ones.
01/04/07
Top CriticAs an animated film, it may share the bright palette of a Disney feature, but its computer animation lacks the polish and detail of a Pixar film.
01/05/07
Happily N'Ever After, with its pseudo-Shrekkeries, tries to be too many things -- and in too many styles and dimensions -- at the same time.
01/04/07
Top CriticThe rich detail we've come to expect in computer animation is largely absent, suggesting that the filmmakers intended a direct-to-video release for this cleverly written parody.
01/04/07
Ella's so blindly devoted to the Prince, and so convinced that he's the one to save the day, that she seems just another swooning groupie rather than a worthy heroine.
01/05/07
Bring one of those clip-on reading lights and a good book.
01/05/07
Nothing much of any import or interest happens to get us to the end we predicted within the first two minutes, so if for some masochistic reason you do let your kid drag you to this, this would be a good time to catch a nap.
01/05/07
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.
01/11/07
The only real laughs are supplied by the Seven Dwarfs, who are portrayed as hillbilly garden gnomes.
01/15/07
The wizard appears for two minutes at film's start before he smartly abandons the movie. You'll wish you had the good sense to walk out with him.
01/05/07
[It's] unhappily unsuccessful as either low-budget, time-filling kiddie fare or satire aimed at adults. Its lack of imagination extends to the computer-generated animation, which is as lacking in detail and style as the dialogue is in amusement.
01/05/07
Top CriticLatest News for Happily N'Ever After
June 23, 2008:
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April 28, 2007:
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January 19, 2007:
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January 11, 2007:
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