Happily N’Ever After finally arrives, looking like a cheapo knock-off of DreamWorks’ ogre.
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08/03/07
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: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
Clunkingly obvious.
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 CriticDespite attempts to turn the fairytale genre on its head, the characters are predictable stereotypes.
06/23/08
Top CriticShrek this ain't. A lacklustre effort hampered by limp dialogue and lazy plotting.
08/03/07
Top CriticPutting 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.
01/04/07
Top CriticA 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
'Happily N'Ever After' boasts lots of high-powered voice talent but not much charm or pizzazz.
01/05/07
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
It may satisfy the under-6 crowd with its bright colors and talking animals. But it's not much fun for the rest of the family.
01/05/07
There's one great clue that the picture was not born in Hollywood: the heaving bosoms. Only the Germans would bestow such careful, pillowy attention to the bustline of the wicked stepmother and the flying witches.
01/06/07
If you're old enough to read this sentence, you should probably go see something else.
03/24/07
Two words of advice: N'Ever mind.
01/04/07
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
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
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
Not counting derivative, obnoxious, poorly animated, and woefully unfunny, what Happily is most of all is dull.
01/04/07
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 CriticDangerously close to scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to theatrically released animated movies.
01/04/07
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
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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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