Putting a spin on classic fairy tales is nothing new, and unfortunately that's just what the Shrek-lite animated feature Happily N'Ever After brings to the big screen.
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01/04/07
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
The 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
Dangerously close to scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to theatrically released animated movies.
01/04/07
Two words of advice: N'Ever mind.
01/04/07
Top CriticInexperienced youngsters will be content with Happily N'Ever After, but their parents will recognize a pale, B-movie variation of the far-superior Shrek films.
01/04/07
It's at the point where if they can't find any fresh means of deconstructing or parodying fairy tales, they shouldn't bother at all.
01/04/07
Top CriticHappily 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 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 CriticIt 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 CriticQuantities of unimaginative CGI do nothing to perk up a barely sketched storyline. I spent the movie scratching my head over which audience the studio is hoping to profit from with this noisy rubbish. YouTubers? Tots with ADD?
01/04/07
In terms of lasting, satisfying flavor, Happily N'Ever After falls somewhere between cardboard and tofu.
01/04/07
Compared to the best movies of its kind (Shrek), Happily N'Ever After is insipid. Compared to mediocre ones (Hoodwinked!), it's not very good, either.
01/04/07
This movie is the worst kind of offender: it thinks its funny and clever, but it is neither. The filmmakers have mistaken banality for wit and silliness for humor, and that doesn't begin to address how visually clunky this motion picture is.
01/04/07
Top CriticThe press notes boast that the total production time was only 15 months, 'unheard of for a first-class computer animated movie.' Maybe there's a reason why that's unheard-of.
01/03/07
Happily N'Ever After exists to reward anyone who's delighted in the destruction the Shrek franchise has waged against our fairy-tale memories.
01/01/07
Underwhelming.
12/18/06
Latest News for Happily N'Ever After
June 23, 2008:
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January 19, 2007:
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