Ahead of the curve in telling stories about consent, Ella Enchanted also conflates sexual consent with tyranny in its other forms, because they're all related, in a fairy tale universe that evokes Shrek's and A Knight's Tale. Ella is very much Cinderella, though like the baby in Sleeping Beauty and later, Frozen's Elsa, she's cursed by a supernatural agent (world's worst fairy), in her case cursed with obedience. And so the romantic, but also political action becomes the quest to free herself from it, and the land from its cartoonish king's villainy. The prince is essentially Hamlet, about to be denied the throne by his evil uncle, and there's even a key scene in a hall of mirrors that makes it seem like someone watched Branagh's 1996 adaptation for research. Benefiting from Anne Hathaway's star power, just coming off The Princess Daries, this fairy tale remix is goofy as all get-out, like a live action cartoon, but that's part of the fun. Some performances fall under the category of panto, but then Steve Coogan's snake Heston delivers a line and all is forgiven. Downton Abbey's butler is an ogre. Heidi Klum is a giantess. Bonus Eric Idle rhyming narration. It's wacky like that.
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Inconsistent tone, plot holes you could drive a bus throughSiskoid
Ahead of the curve in telling stories about consent, Ella Enchanted also conflates sexual consent with tyranny in its other forms, because they're all related, in a fairy tale universe that evokes Shrek's and A Knight's Tale. Ella is very much Cinderella, though like the baby in Sleeping Beauty and later, Frozen's Elsa, she's cursed by a supernatural agent (world's worst fairy), in her case cursed with obedience. And so the romantic, but also political action becomes the quest to free herself from it, and the land from its cartoonish king's villainy. The prince is essentially Hamlet, about to be denied the throne by his evil uncle, and there's even a key scene in a hall of mirrors that makes it seem like someone watched Branagh's 1996 adaptation for research. Benefiting from Anne Hathaway's star power, just coming off The Princess Daries, this fairy tale remix is goofy as all get-out, like a live action cartoon, but that's part of the fun. Some performances fall under the category of panto, but then Steve Coogan's snake Heston delivers a line and all is forgiven. Downton Abbey's butler is an ogre. Heidi Klum is a giantess. Bonus Eric Idle rhyming narration. It's wacky like that.mrocznacisza
I really enjoy this movie :)danisanna
Cute and adorable!fluffyclouds3
Anne Hathaway does such a good job! She is an amazing actress. Love this movie too, it's really well done.