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Happily N'Ever After

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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.

Rated: U [See Full Rating] for some mild action and rude humor.

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Childrens

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... 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 endings. But when he leaves on vacation, he entrusts his tasks to his inept assistants, and Cinderella's evil stepmother (Sigourney Weaver) begins to wreak havoc on the endings of fairy tales. Though she's interested in menace in general, she particularly wants her stepdaughter, Ella (Sarah Michelle Gellar), to suffer. She vows to keep her from Prince Charming (Patrick Warburton), much to the delight of his servant, Rick (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), who is in love with Ella himself. HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER takes aim at the stories everyone knows by heart. Here Prince Charming needs a guidebook to behave like royalty, with Warburton fashioning a delightfully doltish contrast to traditional romantic heroes. Character actor Jon Polito plays a big bad wolf who could have been an extra on GOODFELLAS. As the wicked stepmother, Weaver turns decades of experience playing strong women into portraying this archetypal baddie. With its celebrity voices, HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is an amusing reversal of Disney's fairy-tale films of the past. [More]

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin, Andy Dick, Michael McShane, Patrick Warburton, Wallace Shawn, Jon Polito

Director: Paul J. Bolger

Director: Paul J. Bolger
Screenwriter: Rob Moreland
Producer: John H. Williams
Composer: Paul Buckley
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Rose Longhurst

Despite attempts to turn the fairytale genre on its head, the characters are predictable stereotypes.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 23 2008 06:35 AM

Channel 4 Film

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2/5

Ann Kelly

Clunkingly obvious.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 03 2007 04:24 AM

BBC

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1/5

Happily N’Ever After finally arrives, looking like a cheapo knock-off of DreamWorks’ ogre.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 03 2007 03:59 AM

Total Film

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2/5

Simon Braund

Shrek this ain't. A lacklustre effort hampered by limp dialogue and lazy plotting.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 03 2007 03:02 AM

Empire Magazine

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1/6

David Fear

The 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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 01 2007 03:15 AM

Time Out

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Eric D. Snider

Deeply lame.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 04 2007 09:16 PM

EricDSnider.com

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Brian Tallerico

If you're old enough to read this sentence, you should probably go see something else.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 24 2007 09:08 AM

UGO

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1/4

Sean McBride

...lives up to the promise of it’s title

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 07 2007 07:42 PM

Sean the Movie Guy

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Frank Lovece

It ain't Shrek, but it ain't dreck.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 06 2007 08:36 AM

Film Journal International

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1/5

Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

I'll happily never watch it again..

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 04 2007 11:04 AM

3BlackChicks Review

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1/6

David Fear

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 03 2007 05:04 AM

Time Out New York

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0/5

Marc Savlov

No child deserves Happily N'Ever After.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 20 2007 07:29 AM

Austin Chronicle

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1/4

John Beifuss

The only real laughs are supplied by the Seven Dwarfs, who are portrayed as hillbilly garden gnomes.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 15 2007 06:59 AM

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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2/4

Linda Cook

Tolerable, but far from magical, "Happily N'Ever After" is just another one of what is becoming a genre: Lackluster CGI_animated films.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 14 2007 07:39 PM

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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2/4

Janos Gereben

It is Shrek-Lite.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 13 2007 04:53 AM

Entertainment Insiders

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1.5/5

Tim Cogshell

When played with stale jokey-jokes and lame one-liners, as it is here, it’s not funny at all.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 13 2007 04:53 AM

Boxoffice Magazine

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1/5

Jim Lane

The story...is as arbitrary and pointless as the apostrophe in the second word of the title...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2007 08:30 PM

Sacramento News & Review

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Robin Clifford

Happily N'Ever After is more appropriate as DVD fodder.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2007 05:06 PM

Reeling Reviews

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Mark Palermo

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2007 10:02 AM

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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Ted Murphy

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 10 2007 02:43 PM

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