excellent animation, but muddled and mediocre story

Rating: 4/10 (27 February 2013)

Frankly, I'm shocked that this won the Oscar for best animated feature or was even nominated. The story was fairly muddled and mediocre. Part of it involves the Queen forcing her daughter to marry against her will.
To me this is a no brainer -- when you force someone to marry against their will, you're basically creating an untenable situation for them. It's not rocket science.. And it all goes downhill from there. When you put someone into this type of situation, it isn't called love, it's called imprisonment. At this point, I felt antipathy for the Queen and thought she was being totally unreasonable.
The graphics and animation are excellent, but for some reason, I found it hard to really get into the story much at all. Maybe because the story was such a yawner -- it wasn't that interesting or compelling.
If I were to grade the story on a letter scale (A-F), I would give it a D. D for dumb, misguided, muddled and uninteresting.