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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As one concerned fan of the book wrote on the Internet Movie Database after seeing the trailer, 'The producers are changing too much things in it and making it too stupid.' Exactly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2004

It had some creative touches, but I thought the special effects were kind of cheesy.

Full Review | Apr 12, 2004

Veers wildly from juvenile comedy to romance to morality lesson, never quite finds its footing.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 11, 2004

In its innocence, sweet heart and abundant wit, it has more going for it, by my accounting, than a dozen more expensive-looking films.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2004

This all makes for good and entertaining fun, from the musical numbers of 1980s pop tunes to the flamboyant fight scenes. For a while. But you've seen this all before.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2004

O'Haver ... has a great time juggling silly jokes, contemporary tunes and anachronisms like hand-cranked escalators at the medieval mall.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Artful enough to intrigue adults and far more original than other versions of Cinderella portrayed onscreen with alarming regularity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2004

The vehicle that carries [Hathaway] is a bit of a mouldy pumpkin.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2004

It's a high-spirited charmer, a fantasy that sparkles with delights.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Ella would be a lot more enchanting if it weren't such a pandering piece of product.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2004

Hathaway's sweetly earnest performance makes this ambitious and occasionally downright weird tale work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Though slightly uneven, this film version of Ella Enchanted never wavers from the magic of author Gail Carson Levine's words for girls: The demands of obedience should not be used to chain their souls.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2004

Hathaway plays Ella straight, but appealingly, and is the actor least suspected of being put through Photo Shop.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2004

An ugly-looking mismash of a fairytale.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 8, 2004

A nightmarish cross between prime-time WB and a renaissance festival.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 8, 2004