Happily Ever After (2010)
A collection of classic fairy tales such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, with a nod and a wink to contemporary times. The film offers characters such as the 'ugly sisters' Paris and Hilton, an updated relationship between Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf, homosexuality and corny humor. Also musical scenes in which the characters sing the songs of current pop artists as well as many popular Dutch hits.
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Good concept, poorly executed.
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Hilarious script combined with the freshness of an amateur play. Everyone is obviously enjoying coloring outside the lines in this 'musical'. Actors playing several characters on a cardboard set. Ciderella, little Red Riding Hood (feeling the time ticking), prince Roderick, all struggling with their uncertainties. The bad stepmother and her spoiled daughters are drag queens. Little Red Riding Hood falls for the roughness of the Woolf hand something beautiful is blossoming between Prins Roderick and his servant Willy. Spiced with witty lines stolen form commercials, several tales intertwine. Wel deserved winner of the Film1 public award. Go see this movie, whether you are young or old.
Releasing a theater piece as a film is valuable as long as it gives the theater piece more value when its filmed. In this case it doesn't. Yes the film is funny, watchable for almost every age, but it's never fantastic,it's never that you cant's stop laughing. For my daughter of 8 it was a first insight in a typical Dutch sense of humour, which was done 15 years ago much better in the weekly adventures of Theo and Theo. In fact one of the key roles of this movie is Theo from Theo and Thea.Nice for a rainy Sunday afternoon and maybe internationally more liked because of the liberal way homosexuality is used, but not more than that. An 80 year old woman walked out the cinema with a smile, and said those good old days, where are they?