An anti-fairy tale

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2002)

Possible spoilers.
This film is both very clever and very funny. It is an anti-fairy tale - it has a prince who is short and not handsome (voiced by the very tall John Lithgow), the short Mike Myers voices the (giant) ogre, the beautiful singing of the princess blows up the blue bird, when the princess finds her true love she becomes ugly (actually that's not quite true), it parodies various well-known fairy tales and, finally, the lovers live `ugly' ever after.
Then there is the artistry of the movie - the brilliant matching of the actors who voice the animated characters, and the state-of-the-art CGI animation.
I saw the video version, which has a fabulous karaoke sequence at the end, and which my kids enjoy more than the movie itself.