Alicia I love this movie so much

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

invisibleunicornninja The only thing that this movie really has going for it is that its a bit funny, though a lot of the humor is pretty cheap and unoriginal. The story is poorly executed, partially due to the random bits of narration and the over reliance of characters being dumb. The acting is ok. Some of the actors are terrible, a lot of them are pretty bad. There are a lot of obvious green screens in this movie. The set designs and costumes and effects aren't that great. Its a fun movie, but overall I wouldn't recommend it.

ecknigh Ella Enchanted incorporates real life characters with a magical fairytale-like world. The plot combines a romantic love story with humor and action and adventure, which makes this movie perfect for brightening your mood. One could say that this movie has a lack of originality. The plot much resembles that of the Cinderella Story. Like the character Cinderella, Ella is misfortune with an evil stepmother and two sisters, who strive to make Ella's life miserable. Also, Cinderella's stepsisters try to intervene in Cinderella's relationship with the prince, just as Olive and Hattie (Ella's stepsisters), try to prevent Ella from marrying Prince Charmont. A difference in these two stories however, is that Cinderella's godmother helps her, whereas Ella's godmother is the source of her problems. Although this movie was intended for a younger audience, I would recommend not allowing very young children to watch it. There are bar scenes that show many intoxicated people, and Lucinda is also drunk in a few scenes. Although surrounded by alcohol at the bar scene, Prince Charmont and Ella do not participate in such activities, which may serve as a good example to young children. However, the script of the movie contains slightly crude humor that some parents may consider inappropriate for their younger children. At several moments during the movie, I was frustrated with Ella's situation. For example, since Ella was forced to kill Char because Edgar ordered her too, the simple solution would seem to be for Ella to tell someone to order her not to follow Edgar's command. Perhaps the curse would not make that possible, but the exact parameters of the curse were not explicitly stated in the movie. Another part of the movie that was frustrating is that Ella kept her curse a secret from Prince Charmont. I understand why she didn't tell anyone else, because they would just take advantage of her. It would have made her life much easier if she had told Char about her curse, especially when Edgar ordered her to kill Char. However, Ella not telling Char about the curse is what makes the proposal scene and the rest of the movie more suspenseful. In the beginning of the movie when Ella's mother is passing, her mother tells her "what's inside you is stronger than any spell". I didn't realize until towards the end of the movie that this foreshadowed the proposal scene. Ella's love for Prince Charmont was so strong that it defeated her dreadful curse. In the moment where Ella is holding the dagger over Char's head, she is overwhelmed with her mother's voice saying, "What's inside you is stronger than any curse". I think that is an excellent use of this quote, especially since it was her mother's advice and last words. Ella Enchanted was released in 2004, but the movie soundtrack consists of some songs dating back to the seventies. "Somebody to Love" by Queen, is played when Ella is ordered to sing and dance in the bar at Giantville. Instead of joining in, Char stands back and watches Ella. Because of the lyrics and the moment of time in the movie, I thought that something climatic was going to happen regarding their relationship, but nothing happened. I was disappointed that Char didn't join Ella in dancing because it would have been the first romantic moment between them. The closing song is from the 90's – "Don't' Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and RuPaul. In this final scene, the entire cast is in the castle. Regardless of each character's role in the movie, good or evil, they all join together in dancing. The choreography is more cheesy than impressive, but that's one of the reasons why this movie is great for a younger audience.

TheSeaLion "Ella Enchanted" is the kind of kids movie that, if you're older and have kids or younger siblings, you can sit down and watch it with them, they'll enjoy it and you can just forget it afterward. For a kids movie, it's not unbearably stupid, nor does it treat kids like they don't have brains, it's just a very generic kids fairy-tale movie filled with simplistic, one-dimensional villains, musical numbers, goofy side-characters, and an obvious love story.Ella of Frell (Anne Hathaway) is is given the gift of obedience by the fairy Lucinda (Vivicia A. Fox) and must keep her gift secret so people can't use it against her. After Ella's mother (Donna Dent) passes away, her father (Patrick Bergin) remarries several years later to Dame Olga (Joanna Lumley), Ella's generic evil stepmother, who has two daughters who are Ella's generic evil stepsisters, Hattie (Lucy Punch) and Olive (Jennifer Higham). The two stepsisters discover Ella's gift of obedience and use it to make her life miserable, forcing her to steal from a mall and get rid of her best friend (Parminder Nagra). Ella, ventures out to find Lucinda to take back her gift, with the help of her house fairy Mandy's (Minnie Driver) boyfriend Benny (Jimi Mistry) whom Mandy has accidentally turned into a book, Slannen (Aidan McArdle), an elf who wants to be a lawyer, and Prince Char (Hugh Dancy), whom Ella is at first repulsed by because she believes he is like his evil uncle Edgar (Cary Elwes). As they search for Lucinda, Ella and Char begin to fall in love with one another and Edgar, learning of Ella's obedience, hopes to use her in his plan to assassinate Char before he can claim the throne.The villains of the film are all generic, one-dimensional characters that we have already seen before. Edgar is the evil uncle who wants to rule the kingdom who has killed his brother and now wants his nephew out of the picture, like Scar (Jeremy Irons) from "The Lion King". Then, we have the mean stepmother and stepsisters who treat Ella poorly, like with the stepmother and stepsisters from "Cinderella". While the main characters are given a little more to their characters than just a generic character-type, it doesn't always lead anywhere. Slannen says he wants to be a lawyer and that he does not sing. He has one quick moment where he acts like a lawyer, but in the last scene of the movie he is singing when he has made it clear he doesn't want to sing or perform.The two main musical numbers that I remember being performed in the movie, Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and Queen's "Somebody to Love" serve no purpose to the actual story. They aren't like the songs you would get in a Disney movie where they are used to further the plot, these songs bring the movie to a screeching halt. It feels like these songs are in the movie for two reasons: 1. Because it's a kid's movie and kid's movies need musical numbers in it, and 2. To show off Anne Hathaway's singing. Now, Anne Hathaway is a talented singer and she does a fantastic job in this movie, especially with "Somebody to Love", but that does not dismiss that these songs are pointless to the overall movie and bring the movie to a standstill.At the end of the movie, Ella breaks the spell of obedience by looking at herself in a mirror and telling her to no longer be obedient. For the whole run of the movie, I was questioning why neither her mother or Mandy the household fairy told her to not be obedient to anyone ever again, which would have solved the whole movie within the first ten minutes. I find it very hard to believe that no one in Ella's family thought of this idea for all the years that she had the curse."Ella Enchanted" is a movie that the best way to describe it would be generic. It's not terrible, but it does not stand out when it comes to the long list of kid's fairy tale movies that exist. It has the regular love story that you can see coming from a mile away, simplistic villains with no depth or charm to them who are just made as evil as possible so you hate them and like the heroes more in comparison, goofy side-characters, musical numbers, and all the other stuff you'd expect to find in a kid's movie. Once again, it's perfectly acceptable for kids. While generic and simplistic, it does treat kids like they have a brain and if you have kids or a younger sibling, you can watch with them and forget about it when it's done without feeling like you've lost brain cells.

SnoopyStyle Baby Ella (Anne Hathaway) was given a 'gift of obedience' by Lucinda the fairy (Vivica A. Fox). It is more of a curse which the unreasonable fairy refuses to undo. She must do everything she's told to do. It's really unreasonable that nobody notices this curse. Are the townfolks really stupid? When her stepsister (Lucy Punch) notices the curse, Ella has no choice but to leave and try to undo the curse. In the meanwhile, Prince Charmont (Hugh Dancy) has fallen for her.Anne Hathaway is cute and lovely. She and Hugh Dancy make a cute pair. But every time somebody does the curse and can't figure it out, it gets really annoying.