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More for Kids Then Adults
Our story takes place in Fairytale Land, a kingdom populated by every fairytale character you've ever met. The balance between good and evil is maintained by a wizard (George Carlin) who makes sure that every story follows the book. <
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>The time has come for Cinderella (Sarah Michelle Gellar) to have her fairytale ending. The Prince (named Humperdink. A nod to Princess Bride? Either way, he's voiced by Patrick Warburton) is hosting a ball on his twenty-first birthday. Cinderella is set to go and fall in love, just as the story dictates. <
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>This doesn't sit well with Rick (Freddie Prinze, Jr.). He's a servant in the castle and has fallen for the beautiful Cinderella. Fighting a bad case of prince envy, he wonders why he never gets a happy ending. <
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>While all this is happening, the wizard decides to go on vacation and he turns things over to his two assistants, Munk and Mambo (Wallace Shawn and Andy Dick). Mambo wants to add a bit of variety to the stories while the wizard is away, and the two start fighting. <
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>Overhearing their fight is Frieda (Sigourney Weaver). She's Cinderella's evil step mother. She seizes the golden opportunity to take over the kingdom and tip the scales toward evil. Now it's up to Cinderella and a very reluctant Rick to return happy endings to Fairytale Land. <
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>I'm always up for a good fractured fairytale, a genre that has become popular since the success of Shrek. I was looking forward to this one, but it failed to live up to expectations. <
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>The biggest problem with the movie is the lack of development. Everything felt rushed, like it knew what it had to do and wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible. The characters were also shallow, and I never felt like I got to know them, which made it hard to root for them. <
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>There were a few funny lines in the movie, but most of it was played surprisingly straight. The Prince was the one exception, with a great running joke about consulting his book before everything. <
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>This isn't the detailed animation we are used to. It's stylized with lots of weird angels. It works, but considering what most studios are putting out, it is a bit surprising. <
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>The voice cast does great, with one exception. There was something about Sigourney Weaver's voice that bothered me. It almost felt like she reading the script with. She showed hardly any personality. <
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>Unlike many films that adults and kids can enjoy together, this one is strictly for the kids.

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Another stab at mking fun of fairyttales, goes horribly wrong
Lets see- there was Shrek, Shrek 2, THe Princess Bride, 10th Kingdom, hoodwinked, and probably a bunch more. It's not "NEW," the whole "Fractured FairyTale" concept has been done. Unfortunatly, it has been done better, MUCH better when compared to "Happily N'ever After" and with predecessor's like "Ella Enchanted" and "Cinderella III" it's curious why they even attempted a Cinderella based story. <
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>Sigourney Weaver as Cinderella's wicked Stepmother has her moments, and the Backwoods Seven Dwarves did bring up as chuckle or two, but by the halfway poin, I was just interested in how the movie was going to end, but dreading having to watch the characters, I was actually uninterested in who would win (Gee, who do you suppose DOES?) just interested in it being over. <
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>. In all honesty, the characters are generic and uninspired. The movie's jokes fall flat, and the movie in general isn't intersting. amazing to see that CGI efforts from ALL studios seem to employ a HUGE cast of celebrity voices to help draw interest in movies, but Happily N'ever After" is one of MANY Celebrity flooded CGI movies that proves that even the BEST cast can't save a poor script. <
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>This may draw the attention and admiration of the younger crowd, but it may just bore adults. I would reccomend renting this one first.

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Flat and dull.
Sigourney Weaver is mildly amusing as the wicked step-mother. The seven dwarfs are also mildly amusing portrayed as backwoods militiamen. But I never really laughed throughout the entire movie. The basic concept of having the villians take over 'Fairy Tale Land' is not bad, but the execution is poor. The script just isn't that great and the jokes aren't funny.