Saturday, February 23, 2008
Penelope
It’s Cinderella meets Cyrano de Bergerac meets Miss Piggy meets the paparazzi in a delightful fairy tale about inner beauty. A curse on a blue-blood family keeps Penelope (Christina Ricci) hidden away from the world until one day she ventures out to explore beyond her home and find her true love. Is it predictable? Of course, because it is a fairy tale. The story does have a witch, a one-eye dwarf, and a winged Vespa. Ricci is still adorable even with a pig face. Catherine O’Hara is the controlling mother, James McAvoy is a prospective suitor, and Reese Witherspoon has a nice small part as she doubles as the film’s producer. This is a sweet and charming family film.
Alien gives it 3 “I like myself the way I am” stars out of 4.
It’s Cinderella meets Cyrano de Bergerac meets Miss Piggy meets the paparazzi in a delightful fairy tale about inner beauty. A curse on a blue-blood family keeps Penelope (Christina Ricci) hidden away from the world until one day she ventures out to explore beyond her home and find her true love. Is it predictable? Of course, because it is a fairy tale. The story does have a witch, a one-eye dwarf, and a winged Vespa. Ricci is still adorable even with a pig face. Catherine O’Hara is the controlling mother, James McAvoy is a prospective suitor, and Reese Witherspoon has a nice small part as she doubles as the film’s producer. This is a sweet and charming family film.
Alien gives it 3 “I like myself the way I am” stars out of 4.
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