Ella Enchanted

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

…For kids bored with repeated viewings of Frozen and Tangled, Ella Enchanted is a worthy next step&#59; chunky and easy to watch, it’s got some hidden depths well worth exploring…

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

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.