Modern reality in parable at last!!!

Rating: 9/10 (10 July 2001)

Take your children to see this film! We have waited a very, very, long time to see such a simple reality. To see reality portrayed as a children's parable voiced by the myth that is Cameron Diaz is irony beyond any standard I would have thought possible of American cinema! At last commercial cinema has found a back bone compatible with a sense of humour! By modern standards there may be little action, but the humour is spine-chillingly precise!
This is not a flashy, violent, traditional, standard film, in fact it parodies the traditional narrative, but it does it with a class & style unparelled in children's story telling. Adults will be able to guess the conclusion, but children will not, yet both will leave the cinema satisfied & at peace! This film evokes a very, very rare ageless equalibrium. A film for the whole family where everyone is truely satisfied. It is the 1st real children's fable since the brothers Grimm or Hans Anderson, it is the 1st story since then to really make a statement to children in their own language, yet mentally stimulating enough to make adults marvel at it's wisdom & wish they had been told this tale at bedtime. This story is a gem.