Ella Enchanted

Today is rainy and cold, Robert and Sarah and I went to see this movie and I'm not really sure why. I voted for Home on the Range but Sarah didn't want to see Roseanne as a talking cow so we went to this one instead. It was a big waste of time. Sarah said "Well there's an hour and a half of my life I'm never getting back. " She's right.

This is a fairy tale, in the mold of Cinderella possibly, more tailored after Shrek but not a cartoon. It uses modern music in a medieval times. This worked in A Knight's Tale, one movie I like quite a bit, but it doesn't work here. There are some chuckle and groan sort of puns, and in the first third of the movie I was chuckling, but they didn't last. Soon we were shifting in our seat, wondering why we came, and by the end outright groaning.

There's a spell put on Ella (Anne Hathaway - Princess Diaries) and she has to obey orders. Sarah and I were saying under our breath "Make this movie get better" but it didn't work.

Hugh Dancy plays Prince Charmont. I don't remember seeing him before and he was your standard mail order prince guy. Cary Elwes (best known for Robin Hood, Men in Tights) is the evil Uncle Edgar. He does a reasonable job with this role, sharing the spotlight with a talking snake. Vivica A. Fox was over the top as the fairy Lucinda, but Minnie Driver does a nice job with the fairy named Mandy. Eric Idle turns up (Monty Python's Flying Circus) surprisingly enough. He floats in and out briefly to do a little narrative poem. I kept wishing he would stay longer.

If you're a girl ages 6 to maybe 8 or 9, this might be a good movie for you.

As the credits rolled, Sarah said "Everyone in this room just got dumber." That pretty much summed up how I felt about this one.

Pueblo Tinseltown was the theater - the popcorn was good.
Rating - Sarah says 1
I said 2
Robert said it was "okay for what it is" I think we're going with 2 - Forgot it as soon as I left the theater.