If children will sit still for 'once upon a time' in a book, why does it all have to be dumbed down (and turned up) for the screen?
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01/05/07
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
Scriptwriter Rob Moreland keeps the one-liners flowing, though, at best, they register no better than a tepid smirk on the humour thermometer.
01/05/07
Top CriticMovie titles don’t get much more truthful.
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 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
The film aims for sassy but lands in soggy, the victim of lazy scripting and pacing.
01/05/07
Despite self-aware touches, this is another tired kidsploitation product in which a wasp-waisted ingénue and a shallow beau drive the plot and live happily ever.
01/05/07
Though there are one or two funny gags (like the Seven Dwarves as commandos), the typographical flourish in the title is the most clever thing about Happily N'Ever After.
01/05/07
It would take some actual work to get absolutely EVERYTHING wrong, and that looks like it might be the case here.
01/05/07
[F]ails to rise even to the level of cute but silly: it's just dumb.
01/05/07
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
The film is so self aware and pseudo hip that it's incredibly annoying. It uses every cutesy "hey look at me" film class 101 trick, including bad narration from Freddie Prinze Jr.
01/05/07
From the producers of the Shrek series comes this annoying Shrek ripoff, a wannabe fairytale spoof with no imagination.
01/05/07
This most recent po-mo take on fairy tale may be Shrek-lite, but it is just cute enough.
01/05/07
A movie that clearly is the B-level of animated fare, including B-level animation, B-level stars providing voices, B-level stories and B-level dialogue.
01/04/07
Limping into theaters at the least admirable time of year, the film is a disaster on a scale we may not have seen yet in this genre. That would make it a new low.
01/04/07
Not counting derivative, obnoxious, poorly animated, and woefully unfunny, what Happily is most of all is dull.
01/04/07
There is the requisite bathroom humor (though it's mild) and a wan effort to be a bit edgy by updating the looks of Cinderella. But it takes more than a spiffy short haircut to make a character memorable.
01/04/07
All it lacks is wit, character and laughs.
01/04/07
A slick piece of computer animation that can be described as a family film only in the sense that it's a film the whole family will want to avoid.
01/04/07
Latest News for Happily N'Ever After
June 23, 2008:
George Carlin: 1937-2008
George Carlin, the award-winning comedian, actor, and author responsible for one of the most groundbreaking routines in the history of American comedy, has passed away at the... More...
April 28, 2007:
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January 19, 2007:
Weaver Joining Cameron's "Avatar"?
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January 11, 2007:
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