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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1   2.5/5 "Resembling the kind of tale Aesop might spin after one too many vats of homemade Ouzo, Penelope plods along on a desire to endear. All it really does is infuriate."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D "I suppose Penelope would be pleasurable if the title character looked more like a pig and less like a burn victim."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf B ""Penelope" is a new twist on an old fairy tale template that succeeds for the heartfelt performances of Ricci and James McAvoy."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 4/5 "Just downright lovely, a gorgeous fairy tale for children and grown-ups alike."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 2.5/4 "Maybe I've got some subconscious porcine fetish thing going (or something) but I think Christina Ricci looks kind of cute with a pig's snout where her nose should be..."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 3.5/4 "...one of the most interesting and flat-out entertaining films to play at this year's festival..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "With some fine-tuning, Penelope might have been transformed into a winning little fable about accepting and loving oneself. As is, it only serves to remind of what could have been."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "A rather delightful family-friendly fairy tale with a nice message and a fey, whimsical attitude."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B+ "This out-of-nowhere wonder charms from the first frame to the last, and joins Charlie Bartlett on the list of early-2008 films that are both wholesome and intelligent."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov B "May not exactly be the belle of the ball, but this ugly duckling updating is certainly fetching enough to serve as enticing family entertainment."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "An adult fairy tale that is badly hobbled by its uncreative handling of its theme of finding one's true self."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Much as I would like to give Penelope unreserved praise, I can't stretch my lukewarm approbation that far."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 10/10 "Click here to read review"   Kinoblog.com   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 2/4 "Less-than-magical fairytale about girl who must find true love in order to break the family curse that left her with the nose of a pig."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito B- "Although this "Beauty and the Beast" reversal suffers from some miscues and lapses of logic in television writer Leslie Caveny's script, it largely floats on charming performances from leads Ricci and McAvoy..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "McAvoy is... unaffectedly charming... Ricci is her own kind of quirky-captivating... And the two of them even share a fair bit of romantic chemistry."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B "Like its hero and heroine, this movie is not for everyone, but it will be loved by those who know how to appreciate it."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/4 "Mark Palansky goes for Tim Burton-by-Jean-Pierre Jeunot whimsicality with Penelope, a storybook fable that never overplays its cutesiness but also fails to figure out what it wants to be."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "Okay, so she's got a snout, but it's far from Rocky Dennis or John Merrick levels of grotesque."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "Some viewers may find its self-conscious eccentricities to be somehow charming but if you put this film in a contest against other contemporary fairy tales, it wouldn't come close to winning%u2013not even by a nose."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "Despite an extremely uneven style, this modern-day fairy tale has plenty of charm."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1/5 "How can a movie with this premise and this cast be so mercilessly dull and stupid?"   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "You know the outcome right from the start."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B "This fairy tale feels pleasantly down-to-earth."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2/4 "the girl's ungainly snout is the only unique feature in this otherwise textbook fantasy."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "The picture has a hapless, meandering quality that's tolerable at first but ultimately becomes maddening, as if it were a cartoon narrative recounted by a distracted 4-year-old."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "A plucky, whimsical romance as the ugly-duckling fantasy morphs into a satiric take on celebrity culture."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 2/10 "Produced according to a formula for squeezing the maximum amount of cloying charm out of the minimum investment."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 45% Rotten Page   1