Ugly is beautiful

Rating: 7/10 (21 July 2004)

There they are again the ogre, the princess and the donkey now in the company of another nice character the Pussy in Boots. And here once more some myths and values are upside down with the ogre being again the good one and the Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming the wicked ones. A great portion of good humour is added to the story with some very hilarious gags and wink giving at some of our consumers' society values such as TV and pop music shows. The images and sceneries are almost perfect in terms of animations and the characters are very expressive in their bodily and face movements. But the main feature of the movie is perhaps that against the grain of the usual values in child stories that identify beauty with kindness and ugliness with wickedness, it shows the viewers mainly the children, that these realities don't necessarily go together. Unfortunately I cannot say anything about the voices of great movie stars lent to the characters because I have seen a Portuguese version with Portuguese actors' voices who made an excellent dubbing anyway.