Competition is healthy, but when the guys youíre going up against are the likes of Shrek or Over the Hedge, itís best you just curl up in bed and stay home.

  Trying to restore peace to the fairy tale kingdom, while also trying to find the air-headed prince she thinks she loves, Cinderella (Sarah Michelle Gellar) joins forces with the exiled Munk and Mambo. Frieda continues to chase after her with evil intent. She is later accompanied by the princeís servant Rick and together they try to turn fate around so fairy tales everywhere will return to their happy endings.

Two things that did stand out in the movie was the use of color and sound. Artistically, the movie was well done and was beautifully saturated with bright colors. Several times throughout the film, you could feel the movements in the movie (when something would fly by or the earth would shake).

  However, with a too many fairy tale classics and familiar characters sprinkled along the subplot, Happily NíEver After sadly turned into a completely disjointed movie. I was almost offended by the over-sexualized Frieda ‚ her dress practically didnít exist, and the parts of it that do, donít do a very good job covering up certain things which should be covered up in a movie designed for eight year olds. The storyline never really completely pulled me in and except for a few one-liners, the humor in the movie was pretty non-existent. I give Happily NíEver After a 2 out of 5 dumb blonde princes.

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Anne is a writer, artist & coffee addict who lives with her husband and two emotionally unstable cats in the Dallas area. She works at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall and in her free time enjoys badly impersonating foreign accents, photography, and eating anything chocolate. You can reach Anne on her blog at Flowerdust.net.