A Film for moms who think their daughters are disobedient

Rating: Null/10 (1 November 2012)

Spoilers ...
Given the message of this film, I'm sure that hordes of overbearing stressed out mothers will be dragging their female children to it, in the hopes that their kids will "get the hint". Unfortunately, that's exactly the kind of lame story it has.
The story opens with the kind of young teenage girl that the average young teenage girl can identify with immediately: spoiled, bratty, and self-involved, yet sees herself as spunky and independent. In our protagonists universe, it sucks being a Princess, because your mom is overbearing and IT'S SO UNFAIR that you have rules and stuff.
Having established the nature of the protagonist as the kind of girl that you probably wanted to avoid like the plague in middle-school (unless you were a princess too), the film proceeds to teach said bratty child a lesson. First, don't poison your mom. That's, like, really bad, even if she IS trying to make you marry a prince. Second, don't turn your mom into a bear. She might just eat you (I definitely would have). Third, apologize to your mom for turning her into a bear and admit that it was all your fault. This is clearly the only way to stop her from eating you.
You see, it's not really the bratty girls that are meant to be the audience, it's actually their mothers. It's the mother character who is the innocent party. The mother who has the child's best interest at heart, even if she is a bit overbearing. The mother who is wronged. Although incidentally, girls, if you do happen to poison your mom and turn her into a bear she might just change her mind about that whole arranged marriage thing, just FYI. So really the story is aimed at aggreived mothers of bratty daughters. So you can drag your bratty daughter to the movie theater to have some quality bonding time, that non-inceidentlly, tells your daughter that's she's being a big spoiled brat. It's a win-win situation (for the mother).
Of course, this is precisely the kind of horrible thing that my mom used to do and will probably have the same effect. Ever been forced by your parents to sit through a film whose primary message is "Disobedient children! Honor thy mother!" ? I have. It definitely didn't work on me.