When the wizard in charge of Fairy Tale World goes on holiday Cinderella's wicked stepmother takes over the world, which is home to characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Seven Dwarves and Rapunzel. Read more
| Starring | george carlin (voice), george carlin, john di maggio (voice), George Carlin |
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| Director | Paul J. Bolger, Yvette Kaplan, Paul Bolger |
| Genres | Children, Family |
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When the wizard in charge of Fairy Tale World goes on holiday Cinderella's wicked stepmother takes over the world, which is home to characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Seven Dwarves and Rapunzel.
| Starring | george carlin (voice), george carlin, john di maggio (voice), George Carlin, sarah michelle gellar (voice), lisa kaplan (voice), jill talley (voice), John Di Maggio, tom kenny (voice), Lisa Kaplan, Andy Dick, Jill Talley, michael mcshane (voice), lisa kaplan, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tom Kenny, jill talley, Michael McShane, tom kenny (vo, Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr., Wallace Shawn |
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| Director | Paul J. Bolger, Yvette Kaplan, Paul Bolger |
| Studio | LIONSGATE UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Children, Family |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Nov 2007 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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Its a decent film, with decent enough animation, but in Shrek style it parodies and incorporates many other fairytales, but where shrek really hits the funny bone with characters such as the Gingerbread man etc, this just falls a bit flat and does not have the same cleverness to what humour it has.
Don't get me wrong, it will pass a fun hour and a half with younger children, but older children or adults will be left dissapointed, as very much unlike Shrek etc, it does not have humour that will appeal to them. All in all not a total lost hour or so, but there are better.
I was expecting more from this film. I suppose it is fine for children under eleven years old but not really suitable for anyone older. This movie was trying to follow in Shrek's lead but it was not even close. The main focus was on the cinderella story but it tried to mix other fairy tales and another storyline to it which could have made it better but unfortunately in this case made it worse.
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