Despite attempts to turn the fairytale genre on its head, the characters are predictable stereotypes.
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06/23/08
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:03-08-2007
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
Reviews for Happily N'Ever After
Top CriticClunkingly obvious.
08/03/07
Top CriticHappily N’Ever After finally arrives, looking like a cheapo knock-off of DreamWorks’ ogre.
08/03/07
Shrek this ain't. A lacklustre effort hampered by limp dialogue and lazy plotting.
08/03/07
Top CriticThe 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.
08/01/07
Top CriticDeeply lame.
06/04/07
If you're old enough to read this sentence, you should probably go see something else.
03/24/07
...lives up to the promise of it’s title
03/07/07
It ain't Shrek, but it ain't dreck.
02/06/07
I'll happily never watch it again..
02/04/07
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.
02/03/07
Top CriticNo child deserves Happily N'Ever After.
01/20/07
The only real laughs are supplied by the Seven Dwarfs, who are portrayed as hillbilly garden gnomes.
01/15/07
Tolerable, but far from magical, "Happily N'Ever After" is just another one of what is becoming a genre: Lackluster CGI_animated films.
01/14/07
It is Shrek-Lite.
01/13/07
When played with stale jokey-jokes and lame one-liners, as it is here, it’s not funny at all.
01/13/07
The story...is as arbitrary and pointless as the apostrophe in the second word of the title...
01/11/07
Happily N'Ever After is more appropriate as DVD fodder.
01/11/07
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 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.
01/10/07
Latest 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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