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Summary: Ever After is a believable Cinderella story!
Review: "Ever After" is a realistic version of Cinderella. Though you may not see a fairy godmother or singing mice, real hope and human feeling are discovered. During the first half, you might experience a few "yawners" but the pace picks up when honesty and goodness are rewarded and selfishness and meaness are punished. Anjelica Huston is a marvelous wicked stepmother. She oozes venom. Drew Barrymore is weak but while watching the triumph of truth and goodness, you won't care too much! Ever After is definitely a "feel good" movie. Guys...you have to qualify it as a "chick flick" but everyone needs a break from blood and guts periodically! "Try it you'll like it!"
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Summary: The Best Drew Barrymore Film to date
Review: Drew Barrymore is my favorite actress. She has an amazing talent and in this movie she proves that she can portray a modern-day Cinderella. This movie was wonderfully done, and the scenery you witness is breathtaking. It easily is her best film to date today. Please, if you haven't already witnessed this film for yourself, please see it when it comes out. It magically entertaining!!!!!!!1
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Summary: Excellent
Review: "Ever After" is a wonderful adaptation of the classic Cinderella fairy-tale. All the romance is there, but this adaptation has done away with portraying Cinderella as a helpless female. Barrymore plays a stunningly independent role and does an excellent job. I usually don't enjoy romance movies, but I have to admit this was a very well done and highly intelligent show.
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Summary: A great movie that just about anyone will enjoy!!
Review: Ever After was a great reenactment of the Cinderella story.I saw it four times in the theater and loved it every time.I don't know why it's rated PG-13? It was a very appropriate movie. Even if you don't like Drew Barrymore movies, you'll love this one.This is definately a ladies movie!!
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Summary: A Moving, Beautiful, Wonderful Movie
Review: This is a wonderful movie. The premise may be cliché, but this is much, much more than just another "Cinderella" movie. Its effects are really quite magical--it will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will totally immerse you in its spell. If you are human, it will produce a lump in your throat that will remain there for hours. Some people might call this a "woman's" movie, but I, as a man, will proclaim that it really touches my heart every time I watch it, and I freely admit that it does bring tears to my eyes. I need not go into detail describing the plot--it is a somewhat modernized Cinderella story, replete with the evil stepmother, charming prince, and angelic, mistreated heroine. Instead of a fairy godmother, there is Leonardo da Vinci--an unexpected but brilliant scripting decision, I feel. There are no magic pumpkins turning into horses and carriages, but there is magic; it is the magic of true love. The entire cast is superb, particularly Anjelica Huston as the evil stepmother, but all of them are overshadowed by Drew Barrymore. Anyone who does not feel that Drew Barrymore is one of the greatest actresses of this and any other generation has obviously not seen this movie. I love all of Drew's movies, but I really believe this movie represents her finest performance. Even down to the most unimportant nuances of acting, she is simply brilliant. She is equally convincing as a peasant in the field as she is a royal courtier among the nobility of France. The emotion she is able to express to the audience is deep and amazingly real. I really can't say enough about her performance here. All I can do is encourage you to experience this movie. I believe you will want to watch it more than once; it is just as fresh and moving the second and third time as it is the first. Don't dismiss it as a "sappy love story" or think its 16th century setting will make it hard to relate to. This is a story as old as time itself, really, and it is a story that will always be relevant to humankind. It celebrates the power of true love and shows all of us that dreams can indeed come true.
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Summary: no fairy tales or pixie dust
Review: At first when I saw they were making this movie I was intrigued, but also skeptical, about this new twist on Perrault's Cinderella, this time starring Drew Barrymore. Well, Cinderella is my second favourite fairy tale, so I should probably force myself to sit through it for that reason alone. Barrymore's also not that bad of an actress, not the best, but hey not the worst. Then I notice Anjelica Huston is in it also, and hey I really like her so why not go and see it? Well eventually I completely forgot about the movie, never did get around to seeing it in theatres. Then while surfing through the channels on my TV I see a commercial for the movie being shown on some station and I'm intrigued all over again. So I tune in to see the movie, and wow, I was not expecting this movie to be as great as it was. This is not Disney's version of Cinderella, not by a long shot, so if that's what you're looking for in your tale of Cinderella I suggest you search elsewhere. Instead of the pixie dust and fairy tails you get the legend of Cinderella, the supposedly true story which the fairy tales were later based off of. The movie opens with the brothers Grimm arriving at a castle in France invited there by an again woman who wishes to tell them the true story of Cinderella without the magical pumpkins or a faery godmother. I'll spare you all the details of the film which every other reviewer has already gone through. I will however tell you that the performance is average from Drew Barrymore, no fireworks with her acting here, just the way she usually is, which isn't that bad but she's not going to be winning an Oscar anytime soon I promise you that. Anjelica Huston was amazing and easily stole the movie away from Barrymore, she was simply delicious as an Evil Stepmother, the role fit her like a glove. Perhaps my favourite role in the film was of Pierre le Pieu played by Richard O'Brien more widely known as Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I nearly fell off of my seat the first time I saw this movie and he first appeared! You'll not be disappointed at all by this movie if you decide to take the time to sit and watch this movie. It is however a "chick-flick" if you haven't already noticed so considered yourself warned. It's not quite as bad as most of them, but it has the makings to make most men wish to rip their hair out at having to even think about watching this movie.
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Summary: The Most Amazing Cinderella Story Ever!
Review: Cinderella always has been my favourite fairytale. But this movie is classy and features an incredible cast. Drew Barrymore couldn't be more perfect for her role as Danielle. Anjelica Huston is FANtastic as the evil-stepmother. Dougray Scott is somewhat of a hottie, and he and Drew make the sweetest on-screen couple! Leonardo Da Vinci is the funny, witty, 'fairy godfather' inventor, who also turns out to be a matchmaker. The two stepsisters are a necessity, one kind-hearted but gut-less, the other as evil as her mother.
The story is beautifully written. Danielle is forced to sleep with the pigs, but her character is beautiful. Independent, intelligent, spirited, beautiful (inside and out), and kind, her will to overcome her scheming step-mother and stepsister Margheurite is mind-blowing.
This movie is an incredible experience, one movie I will never forget as the perfect, classy Cinderella story!
The version with Whoopie Goldberg and Brandy is ugh!
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Summary: Rather Good Film
Review: This is one of my favorite films. Wonderfully romantic, beautiful setting, and good moral. Unfortunatley, I do not buy into the profanity used in the film. Not necessary. Also I thought Scott Dougray looked a bit old but he did a great job in his role anyway. Maybe guys married older while women married younger back in those days. As for the accuracy of Leonardo Da Vinci being in France, he really did go to France to be the resident artist of the French king around that time. Any way, this film is worth it.
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Summary: Great love story, cute jokes, fantastic movie overall.
Review: Ever After is my favorite movie. When I was single, I think I watched it every day. I'm a romantic, I can't help it, and the situations, characters, and lines from this movie are just fantastic. It's ranked by most of my guy friends as a "chick flick", and I think I would have to agree to that stereotype. It's most definately a romantic comedy. The story is played out as if the legend of Cinderella were true, complete with the brothers Grimm meeting with an elderly French woman in the beginning, who claims to be decended from Cinderella herself. It is exceeding well done, in fact, some of the English teachers at my school use it as an example and show it in class. The cast are well-suited to their roles, Drew pulls it off with a great performance.
This is definately a movie to see if you're a romantic or a sentimentalist. It's a sweet love story, about actually loving the person you are with, and about how being a good person helps out a lot in life... especially when you have to deal with a wicked stepmother!
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Summary: Go Cinderella!!
Review: This is a great movie! Like someone else has said, dont even bother renting this movie. JUST GO OUT AND BUY IT. Drew Barrymore does an excellent job as the repressed and trod upon Daniella also known as 'Cinder Girl' or Cinderella by her stepsister. What I loved about this movie was that Cinderella did not have to be saved by the prince, rather she saved herself. She is a gutsy, tough, clever and intelligent character who is still a sensitive girl because of her experiences in life.
Dougray Scott as the Prince performs his role of childish spoilt rich brat who grows in his love(for Danielle as well as in maturity) with aplomb. Parts of the movie where he spouts romance with utter sincerity such as when he tells Danielle upon her enquiry that did she not already know his weakness for wasnt it obvious? That should have sounded soppy(for a hardened jaded cynic like me) but it didnt!
Anjelica H(o)uston as the stepmother is just too good. I can go on and on about this movie but I will conclude by saying that this movie is a perfect mix of romance, drama, action, comedy(Danielle rescuing the Prince from the gypsies) and history(Leonardo Da Vinci!! as well as the fact that many think that the idea of the glass slipper was a misinterpretation where while in translation from French to English the original material fur was mistaken for glass) and just because it is different in so many ways(the second sister sympathizing with Danielle).
Watch it when you are feeling down, just like that, when you have the girls over, when you have people over and to give young girls everywhere who love Cinderella a more truthful version of the story as opposed to the rather pathetic wimp that exists in the more popular Disney version of the fairy tale.
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