The result isn’t consistently enchanting, but it is quite amusing in spite of its unevenness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 7, 2023

…For kids bored with repeated viewings of Frozen and Tangled, Ella Enchanted is a worthy next step; chunky and easy to watch, it’s got some hidden depths well worth exploring…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2022

Endearing, enduring, with just a few bits of crude humor

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Anne Hathaway is the cheery spark in this glitzy girl's fantasy story from screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith ("Legally Blonde").

| Original Score: C+ | May 4, 2009

The Narrator begins and ends the story talking about how fairy tales transport us to another place, but the sad fact is that Ella lets us stay right where we are.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2004

Avoids a misstep common among girl-empowerment flicks, which often emasculate the male lead to make the heroine truly heroic… manages to make both leads appealing.

| Original Score: B | Sep 16, 2004

The idea of mixing the modern with the medieval is a dubious Mulligan's stew -- and annoys quickly.

| Aug 8, 2004

'El pblico seguramente quedar encantado por la inocencia, el humor y la magia de una pelcula a la que seguramente el tiempo dar el lugar que merece.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2004

Mesmo pecando por ser convencional demais, este um filme charmoso e bem-intencionado - e certamente far grande sucesso entre as crianas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2004

A thoroughly charming performer with a bracing freshness about her that carries the film, [Hathaway] establishes credible chemistry with Brit thesp Dancy.

| Apr 27, 2004

A sweet little anachronistic musical fairy tale along the lines of 'Shrek.'

| Original Score: B | Apr 27, 2004

Someone should tell O'Haver and the gaggle of writers it took to write this unenchanted mess that updated doesn't have to mean washed-up and dumbed-down.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 23, 2004

It looks tiring for a movie to flaunt its sense of irony as eagerly as Ella Enchanted while remaining so naive.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2004

Looks an awful lot like "Shrek," down to the funky closing dance sequence.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 22, 2004

An overcalculated fusion of Shrek and The Princess Bride with all the smarts replaced by smartass.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 20, 2004

It's sweet, it's quirky, and the whole family can fall under its spell.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2004

Wonderfully sweet and thoroughly enjoyable, it's like a live-action Shrek.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2004