Great fun, mediocre animation.

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2001)

This is a great film for little girls with issues about their looks,
it's funny and fast and silly and irreverent. I only wish the quality
of the film had been better, at times it looked as though Princess Fiona
(adequately voiced by Cameron Diaz) was floating instead of walking. The
animation is not as endearing as the Wallace and Gromit films, or even
the Disney films, but the whole enterprise has a spirit that is
infectious and great. It pokes holes in lots of fairy tale bunk that
we've all been weened on since birth. I particularly liked the
'gingerbread man' scene, he shows such pluck and vinegar that it made
you want to stand up and cheer. Kudos to the writers and performers, but
I'm less sure about this animation. It looked like a bad dream
sometimes.