Well considering the only reviews that had to do with looking back at Anne Hathaway's career after her lovable performance as Catwoman has only been both Princess Diaries, it's high time that I get back to that a little with another one of her less as good films Ella Enchanted.
Plot: Ella is a young woman whose obnoxious godmother Lucinda gives her the "gift of obedience" which becomes more of curse throughout her life as she is forced to obey every command no matter what. After her stepsisters make her do something that gets her arrested and eventually forces her to stop being friends with her best friend Mindy, Ella decides to go off into the fairy tale world and try to find Lucinda and ask her to take away the spell.
This mostly works as a kids movie. I mean it's light, it has a lot of childish cliches and it kind of takes a couple of ideas from Shrek when it came to mixing things from both medieval and modern and I recalled finding a little cool when I saw this as a kid. But again, it is a kids movie, which means for people who are older, it's not that grand of a movie. It has cliches, the effects are nothing special, the characters aren't all that good and personally, I think the make-up is stupid particularly with the ogres. (I mean seriously they looked like they weren't entirely trying.) And it's just silly all around.
Actors/Characters:
Anne Hathaway/Ella: Yes this wasn't anything spectacular for her, but she did act out the part fairly well for what it's worth, and she still give us some charm that all around made the film worthwhile as far as she went.
Cary Elwes/Sir Edgar: Now much like how it was for Johns Rhys-Davis, he was a very cheesy villain, but at least also like him, he did perform the character in a way where eventually the was a little fun to watch particularly with his voice.
Music: Now most of these songs are just a bunch of songs that a lot of people know like "Respect", "Somebody to Love" which can be a little nice. And I thought they did an alright job with performing "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"... or at least they did it in a way that's more bearable and made more sense then when Chicken Little did it.
And that's my review for Ella Enchanted. You could enjoy it if you like cheesy kids styled movies, but at the end of the day, it really is just a kids movie filled with cliches and not that well done special effects and make-up.
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