Similar to 'Spinal Tap'...really?

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2001)

This film is a wonderful piece of work by Reiner. His 'Spinal Tap' movie is considered by many to be one of the greatest rock movies ever, even though it is a spoof! In many ways, Reiner has pulled the same trick here. The middle eighties was a brave time to film a fairy story, and it would have been so easy to go for a slick, urbane allegorical story set in Manhattan or some such. Reiner goes the other way, and parodies the fairy tale genre, ramping it up and camping it up with ridiculous characters and settings. This gung-ho larger than life approach has given us a wonderful fantasy with heroes we love to love and villians we love to hate.
And whoever penned the line "...with eyes like the sea after a storm" please make themselves known. Call me an old romantic, but I would lay down and die for any girl who said that about me :-)