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Movie Overview
Director
• Paul J. Bolger
MPAA Rating
PG - for some mild action and rude humor
Happily N'Ever After (2007)

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OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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"'Happily N'Ever After' boasts lots of high-powered voice talent but not much charm or pizzazz."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

D-
"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."  FromTheBalcony  Bill Clark

D-
"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."  OhmyNews.com  Brian Orndorf

"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."  Common Sense  Cynthia Fuchs

1/5
"Not counting derivative, obnoxious, poorly animated, and woefully unfunny, what Happily is most of all is dull."  eFilmCritic.com  David Cornelius

1/4
"Dangerously close to scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to theatrically released animated movies."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

1.5/4
"Happily N'Ever After exists to reward anyone who's delighted in the destruction the Shrek franchise has waged against our fairy-tale memories."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

D
"Deeply lame."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

C-
"Compared to the best movies of its kind (Shrek), Happily N'Ever After is insipid. Compared to mediocre ones (Hoodwinked!), it's not very good, either."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2/4
"This movie is the worst kind of offender: it thinks its funny and clever, but it is neither. The filmmakers have mistaken banality for wit and silliness for humor, and that doesn't begin to address how visually clunky this motion picture is."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

1/5
"I'll happily never watch it again.."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

2/4
"In all, it's a peculiar mishmash, simultaneously bland and suggestive."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

"[F]ails to rise even to the level of cute but silly: it's just dumb."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

B-
"This most recent po-mo take on fairy tale may be Shrek-lite, but it is just cute enough."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

C
"Happily N'Ever After is more appropriate as DVD fodder."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

D
"All it lacks is wit, character and laughs."  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

C
"Ella's so blindly devoted to the Prince, and so convinced that he's the one to save the day, that she seems just another swooning groupie rather than a worthy heroine."  Christianity Today  Steven D. Greydanus

0.5/4
"Painfully devoid of charm, wit, and ingenuity, this interminable, tongue-in-cheek slough through Fairy Tale Land is so jaw-droppingly awful, the executors of the Brothers Grimm literary estate should consider taking legal action."  Reel.com  Timothy Knight
OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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