Clunkingly obvious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2007

Shrek this ain't. A lacklustre effort hampered by limp dialogue and lazy plotting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2007

The computerised animation is cut-rate; the script keeps piling on clunker jokes that even toddlers will find lame; and Prinze proves he isn't any better an actor in two dimensions than he is in three.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Aug 1, 2007

If you're old enough to read this sentence, you should probably go see something else.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

No child deserves Happily N'Ever After.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 20, 2007

When played with stale jokey-jokes and lame one-liners, as it is here, it's not funny at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 13, 2007

N'ever was an apostrophe so misplaced, n'ever was the prospect of good cheer so perversely defeated.

| Jan 5, 2007

A leaden, irritatingly obvious postmodern fairy tale.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jan 5, 2007

Essentially a brash comedy taking one idea as far as it can go, Happily N'Ever After is spare on emotional development but generous with smart-aleck shtick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2007

'As Grimm as it gets,' says the promotional tag for Happily N'Ever After. Make that grim.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 5, 2007

The movie's animators have been quoted saying they sought to give it a classic look. Cheesy would be more accurate.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 5, 2007

'I hate to tell you, but it gets worse,' one character promises midway through Happily N'Ever After. No kidding.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 5, 2007

While new times deserve new tales, this ground has already been trodden -- twice -- by a more memorable ogre than any you'll find in Ella's enchanted forest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 5, 2007

Scriptwriter Rob Moreland keeps the one-liners flowing, though, at best, they register no better than a tepid smirk on the humour thermometer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 5, 2007

[It's] unhappily unsuccessful as either low-budget, time-filling kiddie fare or satire aimed at adults. Its lack of imagination extends to the computer-generated animation, which is as lacking in detail and style as the dialogue is in amusement.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 5, 2007

As an animated film, it may share the bright palette of a Disney feature, but its computer animation lacks the polish and detail of a Pixar film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 5, 2007

The film aims for sassy but lands in soggy, the victim of lazy scripting and pacing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 5, 2007

Despite self-aware touches, this is another tired kidsploitation product in which a wasp-waisted ingénue and a shallow beau drive the plot and live happily ever.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 5, 2007

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.

| Original Score: C | Jan 5, 2007

This most recent po-mo take on fairy tale may be Shrek-lite, but it is just cute enough.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 5, 2007