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Ella Enchanted (2004) | User Rating
(44 votes) | Critic Rating
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Directed by
Tommy O'Haver Written by
Gail Carson Levine, Laurie Craig Cast
Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Aidan McArdle, Joanna Lumley [more]
Release Date
• USA: Apr 9, 2004
• UK: 17 Dec 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 24, 2004
Budget $35,000,000
BoxOffice: $22.8M
Official Website:
Ella Enchanted Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for some crude humor and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 36 minutes
Country USA, Ireland, UK
Studio Jane Startz Productions, Momentum Partners
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Ella Enchanted (2004)
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Ella Enchanted Reviews |
If you really enjoyed "Shrek," there might be a glimmer of entertainment awaiting you in "Ella Enchanted." A lousy, dreary knock-off, based on a popular children's book, "Ella" is only saved by star Anne Hathaway's charms. But even that can only deflect the stupidity and creative bankruptcy the film is soaked in for short periods of time. [read review] D-
--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
Like "Ever After," another you-go-grrrl Cinderella story, "Ella Enchanted" is a fairy tale with a moral of female empowerment and self-sufficiency. In the end, it may leave its audience, young and old alike, just as charmed as its bewitched young heroine. [read review]
--Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post)
Despite being adapted from the popular children’s book by Gail Carson Levine, this all-singing, all-dancing fairy tale is all-but-unbearable thanks to a restrained script that reins in the comedy just when it should be escaping the paddock with ogres, elves, and The Princess Bride’s Cary Elwes in tow. [read review] 
--Marc Savlov (Austin Chronicle)
''Ella Enchanted,'' a funny takeoff on the ancient conventions of fairy tales, might be thought of as a live-action version of ''Shrek,'' the computer-animated hit of 2001 that blended a Brothers Grimm setting with characters and values drawn from contemporary shopping-mall culture. But as directed with verve by Tommy O'Haver ''Ella Enchanted'' is already so heavy with computer-generated effects that calling it live-action is to stretch the point. [read review]
--Dave Kehr (The New York Times)
The movie is an embarrassment - another example of Hollywood excess overwhelming and sinking an otherwise unassuming story. This is one instance when I can most heartily advise ignoring the multiplex and video store on the way to the library. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Ella Enchanted is a congenial fairy tale that reminds of a book's illustrations come to vibrant life. The film's inventive, sly sense of humor only aids in giving its familiar premise a flourishing identity to call its own. [read review] 
--Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider)
The best you can say about "Ella Enchanted" is that, thanks to Hathaway, it's a somewhat more magical experience than last week's royal romance, "The Prince & Me." [read review] 
--Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
I knew what the film was trying to be and it was OK, sometimes even good, sweet and charming, but never great, which I believe Ella had the potential to be. [read review] C+
--Jennifer Alpeche (Lee's Movie Info)
Notwithstanding its unoriginality and the less-than-charismatic Cinderella-lite lead, Enchanted will still find some love with the young girls it targets. [read review] 
--David Levine (FilmCritic.com)
“Ella Enchanted” is a film adults can enjoy with their younger family members or alone, and might not too be embarrassed to recommend to their friends. [read review] B+
--Edward Havens (FilmJerk.com)
...it's a high-spirited charmer, a fantasy that sparkles with delights. [read review] 
--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
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