Fun movie that treads a fine line between embracing and mocking Disney princesses

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2015)

This is a very enjoyable movie, with some great laughs (the scene with the rats and pigeons is brilliant), engaging performances, fun musical numbers, and a general feel-good sweetness.
It's also a movie that manages to make fun of Disney movies (of which it is one) and still embrace the sugary sweetness at their center. The movie lightly mocks love at first sight and a Pollyanna-ish world view, but ultimately it winds up simply replacing the Disney cartoon versions of these tropes with the Rom-Com versions.
Honestly, I feel one could sit down and write an essay about that sleight of hand, but I won't, because a) I'm lazy, and b) it's a very fun movie that doesn't ask you to think, so I won't.