This is a new take on fairy tales but with a twist, where most of the characters subvert your expectations and nothing is what it seems. Sounds familiar? Yeah, Shrek did it much better (and I'm not a huge Shrek fan), but there's something tonally wrong with this movie. What Shrek did very well was build a believable fairy tale world, that, while familiar, was just a bit off. Here, with the sassy and hip dialogue, the over the top action scenes and the terrible pop songs that are played way too often, it just seems all over the place and not grounded in the world it's trying to build. Adding to that some terrible characters that we're supposed to root for just because they're our heroes, and a very in your face message, delivered with the elegance of an elephant make for a not very good experience. On the plus side, while the animation isn't amazing, it's very serviceable, but the highlight for me was some of the world and character designs which were really really good. A mixed bag of a movie that didn't do it for me.
Review of Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
