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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Happily N'Ever After, with its pseudo-Shrekkeries, tries to be too many things -- and in too many styles and dimensions -- at the same time. Read more
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times: 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. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The rationale behind this unattractive animated comedy, a U.S.-German coproduction, seems to be that since it can't create a fairy-tale world of its own, it might as well riffle through many of the more familiar ones. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: N'ever was an apostrophe so misplaced, n'ever was the prospect of good cheer so perversely defeated. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: 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. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film aims for sassy but lands in soggy, the victim of lazy scripting and pacing. Read more
Alex Chun, Los Angeles Times: Putting a spin on classic fairy tales is nothing new, and unfortunately that's just what the Shrek-lite animated feature Happily N'Ever After brings to the big screen. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: The press notes boast that the total production time was only 15 months, 'unheard of for a first-class computer animated movie.' Maybe there's a reason why that's unheard-of. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: [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. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Quantities of unimaginative CGI do nothing to perk up a barely sketched storyline. I spent the movie scratching my head over which audience the studio is hoping to profit from with this noisy rubbish. YouTubers? Tots with ADD? Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: It's at the point where if they can't find any fresh means of deconstructing or parodying fairy tales, they shouldn't bother at all. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: [An] unfunny, trying-to-be-hip fairytale, with ugly CGI animation, a few bad songs, and Andy Dick and Patrick Warburton doing some of voices. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: 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. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: 'I hate to tell you, but it gets worse,' one character promises midway through Happily N'Ever After. No kidding. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Happily N'Ever After is proof-positive that Europeans may have us beaten in soccer, wine and luxury cars, but they still can't make a decent 3-D cartoon. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This movie is the worst kind of offender: it thinks its funny and clever, but it is neither. The filmmakers have mistaken banality for wit and silliness for humor, and that doesn't begin to address how visually clunky this motion picture is. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie's animators have been quoted saying they sought to give it a classic look. Cheesy would be more accurate. Read more
Misha Davenport, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Scriptwriter Rob Moreland keeps the one-liners flowing, though, at best, they register no better than a tepid smirk on the humour thermometer. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: 'As Grimm as it gets,' says the promotional tag for Happily N'Ever After. Make that grim. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: 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. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: There is the requisite bathroom humor (though it's mild) and a wan effort to be a bit edgy by updating the looks of Cinderella. But it takes more than a spiffy short haircut to make a character memorable. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: A slick piece of computer animation that can be described as a family film only in the sense that it's a film the whole family will want to avoid. Read more