the_last_dodo
Best practice with Asylum flicks: run away in the other direction! And scream while running away, to warn others.
tesswysko
Up front, I have to divulge I'm a journalist and promoter, so I do reviews for a living, but that's for Metal music. NOW... I have to say I'm in shock this movie was green lit! It's OBVIOUSLY a response to Once Upon A Time, but all of the female leads look like they just got off of a porn shoot, and their acting was just as mindless! It was PAINFUL to watch! Even Casper Van Dein as Rumplestiltskin was AWFUL! He's just NOT the sort to play an imp! When they made their way into today's streets and began fighting with our people and trying to find each other, I just LOST IT! It was AWFUL! At least their version of Sleeping Beauty had actors with substance, a decent story, and they didn't derail their own train by trying to take on a GIANT Disney franchise! I quit watching about 20 minutes in... that includes the opening credits...
Troy Trellman
This film is a very, very, very poor attempt to capitalize upon some of the ideas behind Once Upon A Time. It fails miserably. The acting is comically bad. I have quite literally viewed high school productions of superior quality. Casper Van Dien as Rumpelstiltskin is awful. How awful? Jay North from the old Dennis the Menace television series is Olivier in comparison. And Van Dien was the high point. The plot holes are large enough to sail the 7th Fleet through. It was boring and disjointed. It was painful to watch. A root canal without anesthesia would have been preferable. I would rather listen to Rosanne Barr sing the national anthem on loop. Watching paint dry is more exciting and a better use of your time. If you are considering buying it on media, burn the money instead - at least that will light the room for a few seconds.
Ali Shaheed
This movie was on my media server, and on a quiet night with not much going on I was intrigued by the title as I scrolled through the available options. So the opening credits roll and I see Asylum, and already know its going to be bad...and the movie starts and what follows is some of the worst acting I've seen on screen, hell even the porn stars from the Bang Bros flicks have a better method. What made me turn off the screen and call it a night was seeing the poorly executed CGI...it looked like it had been executed with a Pentium 1. I know it's supposed to be a parody of a blockbuster but these producers weren't even making an attempt, it was simply poor on every measurable scale. Fifteen minutes into this POS I switched off my TV and decided to call it a night, nothing I watched immediately after this garbage would salvage my evening.