This is just a poor, poor excuse for a children's movie. There are some movies you can take your kid to see that don't insult your kid's intelligence and don't insult the parent's either. This isn't one of them though my 7 year old liked the movie. It won't amuse anyone with half a brain who is much older than 7 though.
The script is so lame that within a few minutes you know what will happen throughout. Sandler moronically mugs his way through his part, which is no surprise since so many characters he chooses to play are moronic. But what are good actors like Jonathan Pryce, Guy Pearce, and Lucy Lawless doing in this mess? The fairy tale sequences, which are featured so prominently in the ad campaign, make up a very short part of the movie and in no way make up for the lame-brained "real" plot.
The most unrealistic element of the whole movie, though it is inevitable, is that the Keri Russell character, a teacher pursuing an advanced degree, would fall in love with a blithering idiot who repeatedly insulted her.
One curiosity to note is the apparently ageless Richard Griffiths who looks exactly the same as he did 18 years ago in the Naked Gun 2 1/2.
The script is so lame that within a few minutes you know what will happen throughout. Sandler moronically mugs his way through his part, which is no surprise since so many characters he chooses to play are moronic. But what are good actors like Jonathan Pryce, Guy Pearce, and Lucy Lawless doing in this mess? The fairy tale sequences, which are featured so prominently in the ad campaign, make up a very short part of the movie and in no way make up for the lame-brained "real" plot.
The most unrealistic element of the whole movie, though it is inevitable, is that the Keri Russell character, a teacher pursuing an advanced degree, would fall in love with a blithering idiot who repeatedly insulted her.
One curiosity to note is the apparently ageless Richard Griffiths who looks exactly the same as he did 18 years ago in the Naked Gun 2 1/2.