My Score:

7.5/10

Ella Enchanted was a decent movie, your basic medieval fairy tale. Now I myself am a huge fan of Medieval Movies. A Knight's Tale and Timeline are two of my favorite movies. So I had an interest to see this when it first came out, but I'm not one to go to the movies a lot (until I get a car!) So I usually wait for stuff to come out on video. Anyway, the movie is about this girl, Ella (Anne Hathaway) who has a gift (curse really) that she has to do whatever she's told. The movie follows her journey to try and get rid of this gift.

MoViE ZoNe Review:

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

The movie starts when Ella is a baby, a fairy named Lucinda comes and gives her this gift of obediance. She grows up having to do whatever she's told. Her mother tells her about this gift/curse when she's around 8 yrs old. Soon after her mother passes away and the movie skips to when she's grown up. Her father is remarrying and Ella's new stepmother has two 'evil' daughters. Remind you of anything? They find out Ella has to do whatever she's told and make Ella's life miserable. Now the current king of the kingdom or whatever is Edgar, and he's plain evil, with a nifty little talking snake by his side, his nephew, Char, is the next king. All the girls are absolutely obsessed with Char, except Ella. Well Ella meets up with the Prince and he liks her, and after seeing how he is nothing like his uncle, she starts liking him too. Well she decides to go and look for Lucinda, because Lucinda is the only one who can take the gift back. So she starts out on this journeywith her housefairy's boyfriend, a book named Benny. (Enchantment gone wrong) She ends up meeting an elf named Slannen who hates being an elf and wants to be a lawyer (but because of Edgar's rules, he can't) So he joins Ella on her quest. Well Ella is about to be eaten by Ogres when Prince Char shows up and saves her. They go to the castle. Ella can't find Lucinda and Edgar learns about her gift/curse. Prince Char tells his uncle that he plans to propose to Ella, Edgar goes and tells Ella to kill Prince Char when he proposes, and her being cursed, has to do it. But she overcomes her curse and is able to drop the dagger before she plunges it into Char's heart. Char thinks she tried to kill him and Edgar worsens the situation, Ella is sent to prison. Slannen ralleys the giants, and ogres, and elves and makes an attempt to save Ella, which he does. Edgar poisons Char's crown and Char is about to be crowned at the seremony when Ella comes in and saves the day. They beat up all Edgar's Guards and the Red Army or whatever and Char learns that Edgar killed his father. Edgar says it was because he wanted to be king and puts the crown on....the poisoned one. So he gets messed up, Ella marries Char, Benny turns back into a human, and everyone lives happily ever after....you expected something different??

Anyway, it was a good movie, especially if you like the Dark Ages like I do. Definitely a kid movie, but hey, I enjoyed it. At some point in the movie, I actually thought there wasn't going to be a happy ending, they do a good job of making the situations almost impossible for Ella to overcome and then end with a happy ending. If you like fairytales, Dark Ages, or anything like that, you'll probably like this movie. I'll probably end up buying it, just for the Medieval point of it, but truthfully, it was an entertaining movie.

Quote

*Knock Knock, Guard opens the hatch.*

Slannen: Open up. I'm Mrs. Frell's legal representation.

Guard: Her what?

Slannen: Her lawyer, numbsckull. If the gauntlet doesn't fit, you must acquit. Now, open this door before I sue you for everything you own. Now, move it! Come on! Come on!

*Guard hurridly opens door and follows Slannen into the hall.*

Slannen: Thank you. Slannen of Pim is not an elf easily drawn into a legal battle...

*Ogres hit the Guard with their clubs when he turns the corner and procede to beat him up as Slannen has his back to them and procedes to talk.*

Slannen: .....but when faced with a challenge for the principals to equality, freedom and civil liberties...

*Ogres continue to beat on the Guard until he's knocked out.*

Slannen: ...this elf will draw the sword of justice...

*Ogre puts pepper onto the knocked out Guard's hand and is about to take a bite when Slannen turns around.*

Slannen: ...and furthermore...Excuse me, what is going on here?

*Ogre stops, right before taking a bite.*

Ogre: Well, can we atleast take him to go?

Slannen: Put the nice man down.

*The Ogre looks sad and drops the knocked out Guard.*

Well I still have Godsend and Twisted to watch, so expect a MoViE ZoNE on them soon.