This is the point where I would mock the movie by alluding ironically to its title but this time it's actually kind of fitting. So yeah.

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2019)

Superb pastiche of the classic Princess Movie that manages not only to deconstruct the formula with mocking venom but also win us over in being a great example of the genre.
This was where we were in the early to mid 2000s: we were starting to really see the heteropatriarchal undertones of this kind of movie and its vapidness without really wanting to put it to bed. Tangled was us bursting through to the other side with the contradictions reconciled, but until then, we NEEDED this movie reflect on our relationship with the Cinema of rushed courtship, gender based characters and feeling sorry for Feudalists.
As a comedy of culture clash, the urban and the fantasy play mystically well against each other and we have one of the few really convincing romances in disney where idealism meets jaded adulthood and the two bring out the best in each other.
I really feel all ages can get something out of this as well as both fans of the Princess movie and those who love to mock it, even if the latter might have to just read a bit of Greer during the lovey dovey moments (which I'm totally into as much as I love Germaine).