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06/24/06
Ella Enchanted (2004)
50 %
Reviews Counted: 109 Fresh: 54 Rotten:55 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
Hathaway is a charming heroine, but the simple storyline gets overwhelmed by silly gimmickry.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
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' Anne Hathaway) lives in Frell, a magical place where humans, fairies, ogres, and other mythical... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Joanna Lumley, Cary Elwes, Steve Coogan
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Screenwriter: Laurie Craig, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, Michele J. Wolf, Jennifer Heath
Screenwriter: Laurie Craig, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, Michele J. Wolf, Jennifer Heath
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12/14/04
Top Critic
There's enough attitude here to keep the audience laughing, even when the film tips into stupid spoofery.
04/18/04
The Narrator begins and ends the story talking about how fairy tales transport us to another place, but the sad fact is that Ella lets us stay right where we are.
09/22/06
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07/21/05
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Avoids a misstep common among girl-empowerment flicks, which often emasculate the male lead to make the heroine truly heroic… manages to make both leads appealing.
09/16/04
The idea of mixing the modern with the medieval is a dubious Mulligan's stew -- and annoys quickly.
08/08/04
'El público seguramente quedará encantado por la inocencia, el humor y la magia de una película a la que seguramente el tiempo dará el lugar que merece.'
07/20/04
Mesmo pecando por ser convencional demais, este é um filme charmoso e bem-intencionado – e certamente fará grande sucesso entre as crianças.
06/17/04
A thoroughly charming performer with a bracing freshness about her that carries the film, [Hathaway] establishes credible chemistry with Brit thesp Dancy.
04/27/04
Top Critic
A sweet little anachronistic musical fairy tale along the lines of 'Shrek.'
04/27/04
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
It looks tiring for a movie to flaunt its sense of irony as eagerly as Ella Enchanted while remaining so naive.
04/22/04
Looks an awful lot like "Shrek," down to the funky closing dance sequence.
04/22/04
An overcalculated fusion of Shrek and The Princess Bride with all the smarts replaced by smartass.
04/20/04
It's sweet, it's quirky, and the whole family can fall under its spell.
04/19/04
Wonderfully sweet and thoroughly enjoyable, it's like a live-action Shrek.
04/18/04
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