Ever After - A Cinderella Story

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Summary: A beautiful love story
Review: I never get tired of watching this movie. it truly is a beautiful love story. Anyone who is romantic and enjoys a little humor would definitely enjoy this movie.

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Summary: My kind of Cinderella Story
Review: Yes, the elements are the same: orphaned girl forced to endure the care of the 'Wicked Stepmonster.' But, in this case, Cinderella, aka Danielle, can take care of herself. She even manages to rescue Prince Henry from a band of Gypsies who plan to keep him hostage. Her unlikely 'fairy godfather' is non other than DaVinci himself. And the ending for her wicked Stepmonster and Sib couldn't be more appropriate.

Yes, there was a happy ending, but as Danielle's great-great granddaughter says, "The important thing is that they lived." I agree with that!

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Summary: Realistic Twist on Cinderella
Review: Drew Barrymore in not slight, nor is she a pushover as Daniella, the real Cinderella. In this twist of the fairy tale as we have come to know, Ever After has made the fairy tale more realistic without the fairy godmother and the magic. Instead, this girl uses her smarts and courage to win the heart of the prince. I was not a Drew Barrymore fan until I watched this film, and although she had received criticism for the accent used in the film, soon you forget and accept the accent as part of Daniella. This is now part of my chick films and lit library. What else is in this library? Roman Holiday, Prince and Me, Bridget Jones Diary, Princess Diaries, Diary of a Discount Donna, A Cinderella Story, and Pretty Woman.

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Summary: the gothic ruin
Review: Let me first tell you that this is a good movie. A good movie is a movie that makes you feel something, and this one puts a smile on my face. Funny, light and delicious movie.
I just noticed that the gothic ruin scene brings us a scent of the romantic eras with its nostalgy, that perhaps does not go well with the Leonardo Da Vinci's progressist spirit. The Renaissance denied the arrogance of the Gothic, and only in the Romantic period did the gothic ruin get importance.

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Summary: the gothic ruin
Review: Let me first tell you that this is a good movie. A good movie is a movie that makes you feel something, and this one puts a smile on my face. Funny, light and delicious movie.
I just noticed that the gothic ruin scene brings us a scent of the romantic eras with its nostalgy, that perhaps does not go well with the Leonardo Da Vinci's progressist spirit. The Renaissance denied the arrogance of the Gothic, and only in the Romantic period did the gothic ruin get importance.
Anyway, nice movie!

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Summary: "Ever After" doesn't fail in living up to your expectations
Review: Ok, when I first heard of a Cinderella retelling starring Hollywood's favorite bad-girl-gone-good, Drew Barrymore, I basically lost interest. Needless to say, she is not in my top-5 favorite actress list. However, my thoughts were changed forever when I was bored one day and rented the DVD. This movie is even better than the original fairy tale told to us as impressionable kids. First off, its good that they went and told it as "the actual events" and not the same Grimm brothers load of crap that just disappoints cause you later learn there is no fairy godmother out there or magic pumpkins. Drew Barrymore's Cinderella is anything but a ditzy blonde who sings with mice and having vapid dreams of wishes coming true. THIS Cinderella actually has a mind... and uses it, too, even in the face of the prince, whose renowned charm is replaced with a rebelliousness and refusal of running a country. THIS Cinderella is way better... I especially like the fact that the role wasn't given to some unrealistically drop-dead gorgeous gal as Hollywood likes to do. Barrymore is beautiful in her own way, but not so much that it blinds us from her very well-rounded personality. The whole cast does a good job, the quarrels between Danielle and Henry are irrestible, but Barrymore's acting comes out on top here. My only beef is perhaps the narrator, Danielle's aging great-great-granddaughter, her voice is just so grating and painful to endure. But thankfully for us, we really only hear her 3 times.

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Summary: Just Breathe
Review: Before you watch this movie, take a deep breath and prepare yourself to be pulled into poetry. If you are a sentimental sort, it is advisable to keep a few tissues handy. That's what this is, a sentimental movie. I am not a fan of the overly sentimental, mushy love story movies that are termed "chick flicks". Yet this is one of my faviorite movies.
Watching this movie is like falling in love, not so much with the handsome prince that courts Danielle, whom he does not know to be a commoner, or even with Danielle herself, though she is an admirable enough character, and in my opinion very well portrayed by Drew Barrymore. No, what really got me about this movie was the way it combined the hard facts of reality with the romance of a fairy tale, and all in an age that is a step back from today.
The movie makes a point of showing the soot on Danielle's hands from the hard labor she endures, the calusses left there. She does not wake up in the morning and look pretty. But when she means to, she can borrow her stepmother's clothes and look lovely. I'm glad they did not cast some overly glamorous actress for this film. Drew Barrymore is pretty, but not nearly as glamourous as the actress that plays Marguerite, Danielle's wicked stepsister. Yet there are moments in the film when something truly seems to be shining out of Barrymore's eyes that makes her the most beautiful woman in the room. In particular, the ball scene at the climax of the movie.
There's the appearance of Leonardo Da Vinci, which, while i'm not sure is entirely historically correct, adds another dimension of magic to the film. He is the man who walks on water and builds kites, and, when the time comes, he serves the wonderful role as fairy-godfather to Danielle. 'A bird may love a fish, but where would they live?', Danielle says to him of her love for Prince Henry. 'Well, I shall have to make you wings' he replies. And he does.
The movie is filled with articulae, well voiced lines like that, in front of settings that really bring you there, and beautiful music played with such perfect timing that, if you haven't already been, will sweep you away.