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Happily N'Ever After [Blu-ray] | ![Happily N'Ever After [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511OEr31IcL._SL500_.jpg)
| Directors: Paul J. Bolger, Yvette Kaplan
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn, Patrick Warburton
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 5143
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGEBR21187
UPC: 031398211877
EAN: 0031398211877
ASIN: B000O5B4CE
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Pg
Amazon.com
With the success of iShrek/i, more irreverent animated fairy tales (like iHoodwinked/i) were inevitable. Unfortunately, the original blockbuster set the bar so high--for characterization, humor, and heart--that other such 'toons are sure to seem redundant. Neither as clever nor as intricately rendered as the tale of the great green ogre, iHappily N'Ever After/i is no exception. That said, small children may find it easier to follow, i.e. no iMatrix/i references. As with the live-action Ella Enchanted, the CGI-animated story revolves around a downtrodden lass named Ella (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Her full name, naturally, is Cinderella. The man of her dreams is pea-brained Prince Humperdink (Patrick Warburton). Little does she know that royal dishwasher Rick (Freddie Prinze Jr., Gellar's real-life husband) has his eye on her. When the Wizard (George Carlin) goes off on a golfing vacation, he leaves bumbling assistants Munk (Wallace Shawn) and Mambo (Andy Dick) in charge. In no time at all, they get into a scuffle, and Ella's evil stepmother, Frieda (Sigourney Weaver), swoops in to take control of Fairy Tale Land. Her first order of business: Let the bad guys win. Consequently, Sleeping Beauty continues to doze, the Seven Dwarves wind up in jail, etc. Ella joins forces with Rick to set things right. Along the way, she realizes that the lowly lad has more princely qualities than the actual prince, and Frieda's reign turns out to be shorter than intended. It's not a bad idea, but the movie drags and the tunes are unmemorable. i--Kathleen C. Fennessy/i
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Lisa's Review December 26, 2008
Lisa Burton (Kent, Ohio)
This is a great movie. My kids love it. Also, it came quickly after I ordered it.
Really funny movie! December 18, 2008
Tracy Crank (Princeton, TX)
This is a great movie. I have seven year old twins and they have watched it many times.
 ENTERTAINING, BUT............. August 27, 2008
! MR. KNOW IT ALL ;-b (TRI STATE AREA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This animated feature is pretty good, but does lack the spark of some of the best animated features that have come out in recent years. The story works better for adults in my opinion as I think some of the jokes will go right over younger viewer's heads. The animation is decent and because I watched this on a HD cable channel, it made it look even better. The colors are vivid and reminded me of a fantasy video game. It's not the best animated film I've seen, but it's certainly not the worst. I rate it just below 3 stars.....2 3/4 stars!
 Good idea, poorly executed June 29, 2008
jpsquared (NJ)
Fractured fairy tales are clever fun. Turning the Disney ideal on it's head every once in a while is not just refreshing, but a respite from the contrived and formulaic themes that our kids, and more importantly, us parents, are subjected to so frequently. br / br /Unfortunately, this movie just doesn't deliver in terms of entertainment. Despite the star power enlisted for the voices, the writing for this movie just couldn't hold up to the promise of the DVD cover. The jokes were lame, the dialogue boring, and the characters just unlikable. As an admittedly "easily-amused" moviegoer, I found myself distracted several times. My (at the time) 6 year old was equally unimpressed, repeatedly asking when it was going to be over. br / br /This is the kind of DVD that you can have playing in the background when a bunch of kids come over for a party. Family friendly, generally harmless, but falling far short of entertainment. Fairy tales, fractured or otherwise should keep a child's interest while delivering some allegorical life lesson - a moral, if you will. This movie fails on both accounts.
Like eating a half baked sugar cookie May 27, 2008
J. Stickney
The earnest Freddie Prinze, JR, interrupts the film's introduction to let us know that this would no more be an ordinary fairy tale than Dennis Miller in the broadcast both would make for an ordinary broadcast team. A few credits later we meet the most interesting voice in the film, George Carlin as The Wizard. His hour of recording time used up, he exits the screen after five minutes and we are left with his assistants Mambo and Munk to carry the narration, exposition and comedy. If you are five, Andy Dick and Wallace Shawn as the funniest things in a movie might be a good thing, pushing forty... not so much. As a dog/cat whatsitsupposedtobe and a small yellow hippopotamus the two try to add an over the top edge to generic cartoon characters reading lines that sound as if they were written by a five year old rather than for a five year old. br /The two show us the balance of nice and naughty that must be maintained for fairy tales to turn out right and the plot smiles and waves at us. Sure enough Cinderella's villainous stepmother overhears the two and soon the scale is set to naughty. br /The rest of the story revolves around Sarah Michelle Gellar stretching her acting abilities to a full monotone as she falls in love with a non-prince, but not a non-Prinze, Jr, and the magician's sidekicks trying to restore order to fairytale land while regurgitating punch lines to jokes that somehow never got setup. To be fair Sigourney Weaver fills out the role of the evil stepmother nicely and that is no mean feat given that she is drawn with a twelve inch waist and forty inch hips and bust. For any males over her waist size, her appearance may be the high point of the film. br /In short, the animation is mediocre, the writers have gone back to working as short order cooks, the jokes ain't funny and the heroine is dull, but evil never looked better.
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