N'Ever gets going

Happily N’Ever After is no Shrek, and certainly no Hoodwinked | Megan Basham

Mommy, I'm bored," came the voice of a young girl, halfway through Disney's latest computer-generated effort, Happily N'Ever After. By the lack of laughs, she was only echoing the feelings of her peers around her. And no wonder. With tedious narration, obstinate lack of imagination, and pedestrian artwork, Happily N'Ever After (PG for mild action and rude humor) isn't likely to reach the big box-office numbers of recent fractured fairytale pics. It does, however, continue the trend of turning classic children's story structures on their heads.

Whereas Shrek took aim at the fable staple that love only flowers between the beautiful, Happily tackles the notion that it only occurs between the royal. Rather than a dashing prince, Rick (voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr.), a humble castle dishwasher, is the hero fighting to save fairyland and his one true love, Cinderella (Prinze's wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar), from Frida (Sigourney Weaver), her evil stepmother.

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