Davis P Anna Hathaway's Ella enchanted is a delightful slice of family oriented fun that just about anyone can enjoy. Anne Hathaway was a great choice to play Ella, she's innocent and radiates kindness and has a very fairytale like essence to her. Hugh Dancy is a great prince, I'll be honest and say that I don't know whether I would've liked another actor better, he was good, but i don't know that he was the best choice. Hathaway is different because she was for sure the best choice, I don't think anyone else could've played Ella like she did. Vivica A. Fox is here too, she plays the Lucinda, the fairy that gave Ella the "gift" of obedience when she was a baby. All the cast does a good job with their roles and they enhance the film overall. The script is pretty well written, it achieves what it sets out to do and it keeps you interested, especially with the scenes where Ella and Char are together. They both have good natural romantic chemistry and the script provides them with good dialogue. The set designs are commendable and they are very appealing to look at, the same goes for the costumes. The movie has its moments of heart and romance, humor, and it's times of adventure. 8/10 for Ella enchanted. Great pick for a family movie night!

Em Buxemburgley First off, this movie was disastrously bad for raising my children and saving my failing marriage. The themes are god-awful, and promote an Orwellian existential nightmare. Honestly, the acting is wooden all throughout. They utilized a literal wooden puppet for Anne Hathaway(or at least they had to, because her acting was so stiff and robotic). The story was moody and depressing, and honestly, a little insensitive to African Americans. This is the sort of film that gives us Americans a bad name. I'd give it a 0/10 if I could because it's so bad, but I'd rather just go watch Grey's Anatomy. Grey's Anatomy is a show that succeeds on all fronts and delivers exactly what this movie is lacking in...substance.

coco-cheung501 The whole move was so horribly written, played, and executed. It's certainly different from the usual fairy tail love story, because it's the worst love story in the history of all love stories. I really, really feel sorry for the people who actually paid real money to watch this disaster of a movie. Spoiler: I really despise how they have the old Victorian Era setting but also have modern invention, like the escalator. No actor or actress in this world could make this abomination half decent. I like Anne Hathaway. She performed some of favorite movies of all time. So it's very curious to me way the hell in the world would she CHOOSE to play in this movie? It like a stain on her career!

Lee Eisenberg "Ella Enchanted" is usually the sort of movie that I would heckle, but Anne Hathaway is not someone whom I heckle. It's true that she started out in roles like "The Princess Diaries", but her later turns in "Brokeback Mountain", "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Rachel Getting Married" showed her to be more than just another pretty face, although I do find her quite attractive. Watching the movie, I assumed that the kingdom under its current governance was an allegory for racism: the giants, elves and ogres are only allowed to do certain things, with all prestigious careers reserved for humans. One could argue that using a fairy tale setting to address racism is inappropriate given what racism can lead to (i.e., genocide), but what are ya gonna do? I read that the movie took some liberties with the novel on which it's based. I of course had no idea that it's based on a novel and will most likely never read the novel, so I only have the movie to go on. I actually didn't find it to be a bad movie, mainly since it pokes fun at the fairy tale genre by incorporating modern things (escalators and even a Ray Charles song). Worth seeing.