Happily N'Ever After (2007)

I understand the concept but the execution is half-arsed at best. The writers should be ashamed of themselves. The characters lack direction and the only common theme I can see is cram as many storybook characters into one film together and watch what happens. Sometimes the anti fairytale can work but it has to be creatively done.For such a star-studded cast, it really should have been better. I'm super surprised that so many people signed onto this movie. The only thing that can explain it is maybe their careers were in a slump at the time. There are just so many could have been great moments but in the end nothing can save this lacklustre, boring pile of generic trash.

This is below the bottom of the barrel. Happily N'Ever After is that kind of movie you watch once and never want to revisit EVER again. This happens with GOOD movies when you want to watch that movie a second time and it's even better than the first time, but this is the exact opposite!! Who honestly thought that plagiarizing the Shrek premise was a good idea? Who with the right mind set think that way?! Nobody! Shrek was classic but this was and still is Shrek's crap! This makes other horrors like Shark Tale look like masterpieces and believe me, that's not saying enough. The movie has to be seen to be believed.Horrible CGI, horrible acting, horrible characters, horrible script, horrible humor that's not even funny AT ALL, and most of all A HORRIBLE movie experience!!!! This is the worst cartoon I've ever seen in my life!!! It'd take some real effort to make me hate a movie even more than this one.

I will start by saying this is not the worst animated movie I have ever seen, far from it. Doogal, Secret of NIMH 2 and Titanic:The Animated Movie are much worse than this. That said though, while not a terrible movie, Happily N'ever After isn't particularly good either. Good things first, I loved the idea of the film, an ironic take on Cinderella, coincidentally one of my all time favourite fairy tales. Then there is a good voice cast, standouts being Sigourney Weaver, Patrick Warburton and Wallace Shawn. Personally I felt Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jnr were on the bland side, but so were their characters strictly speaking. Plus some funny moments come from the supporting characters such as the gangster wolves and biker witches on motorised broomsticks. And of course Mambo and Munk. However, despite these good things, the film at the end of the day felt forgettable and bland. My thoughts on the animation were mixed, while I liked how audacious some of the backgrounds looked, I thought the character movements were awkward and forced. It is pretty much the same with the music score as well, too exaggerated and overdone for my liking. A great idea for a story, but the jokes were on the whole very derivative and the pace uneven consequently the film lacked sparkle and felt predictable. But the worst offender was the script, it seemed rather lazy for some reason, with more polish and irreverence it could have breathed more life into the film. All in all, not terrible, but not great. 4/10 Bethany Cox

(may contain minor spoiler).i wasn't exactly impressed with this animated film,although the idea(that the scales of good and evil in fairytale land become unbalanced and the fairly tales don't work out the way they're supposed to)was interesting.however,it falls apart somewhere in the execution.i came dangerously close to being bored.there were only three reasons i didn't fall asleep.the voice talents of Andy Dick as Mambo,Wallace Shawn as Munk,and especially Sigourney Weaver as the Evil Stepmother.there were a few amusing moments with Mambo and Munk,and Weaver was perfectly cast.otherwise,the movie was pretty tedious.for me,Happily N'Ever After is a 4/10