Fair Tale

Rating: 7/10 (12 April 2008)

Cartoon characters jump into a well and emerge from a sewer under a busy street in live action New York City. This Disney fare borrows from other Disney movies as well as a number of other fish-out-of-water stories but manages to be fairly entertaining. Adams is charming as the modern Cinderella who must cope with a world where everything does not go as smoothly as in a fairy tale. Dempsey is given little to do but look handsome and he does it well enough. Sarandon has a small role as the wicked stepmother but she vamps it up. The squirrel is cute as are all the other animals. It's all very predictable, but that's what endears it to the kids to whom it is targeted.