This is one confused movie.

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2008)

This is one confused movie. All along we, the audience, are told of the power of "love's first kiss" and yet, the climatic moment of the movie, the moment when Nancy tells Robert at the ball, "it's OK", is a complete repudiation of what Disney/Hollywood has been trying to hammer into us for the better part of 90 minutes. We have been told over and over again that romantic love is what it's all about and yet, the truest love expressed in the movie has nothing to do with romance, but everything to do with making a conscious, rational decision to put someone else's happiness above one's own happiness. Without Nancy committing this act of true, selfless love, the movie would have no "happy ending". It is only through Nancy's single act of true love that all characters are allowed to become truly happy. Despite Giselle's large amount of screen time, Nancy is the true heroine of this movie, and the makers of this movie are guilty of muddled film-making and muddled thinking.