Unasuming and funny fantasy movie

Rating: 7/10 (20 August 2017)

This is not a great movie, but it is a very good one.
Unlike, say, Harry Potter or such, it doesn't get bogged down in its own mythology. It's in the back, a setup for making some funny situations and having some fun in general.
Michele Pfeiffer is _great_ as the main witch, villain. There are several very nicely staged and done jokes. In general, the humor is not "thematic", so you can't get annoyed with it. There's wordplay, physical comedy, story-jokes, one-liners... BTW, Michele Pfeiffer has maybe the best part of physical comedy, when she uses magic to stop her advance aging, but it has interesting side-effects.
But, it's not just humor, it has a story to tell. It's a naïve story, but, it's nice.
I didn't like the extended cameo of Robert De Niro very much, but, it, too, was OK (and it's, like, the worst part of the movie). Second worst is, unfortunately, the ending, which misses a few shots and kind of drifts off the main point of "forget the fantasy, we're just having fun" (and, again, for such a movie, it's OK).
With just a few bad elements and none of them being really bad (more not good) and many nice ones, several very good ones and a few great, this gives for some very nice time spent watching this, having fun.