SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I have a special affection for Disney's classic Cinderella (1950), but I acknowledge its main message is problematic, with a female protagonist passively enduring a lifetime of abuse only to be rescued first by magic, then by marriage. I can understand the purpose of a version with a more proactive heroine. Which is what EverAfter attempted to do... except it's garish, tone-deaf and poorly cast. Looking at director Andy Tennant's uncannily bad resume, it's hardly a surprise.Drew Barrymore is appealing in a girl-next-door kind of way but, with her tomboyish look and feel, she comes across as a teenager playing dress-up. Far worse is Dougray Scott as the prince. Scott is a handsome chap, I guess, but there is something cold, almost reptilian about his glare, which made him ideal as the anti-Cruise villain in Mission Impossible 2 - not so much as a romantic lead. Anjelica Huston at least is better cast as the baleful stepmother.Tennant glues scenes to each other with no regard for build-up or coherency. In a twist worthy of a soap opera, the heroine is sold into slavery (?) to some evil ruffian. Once inside his castle, she grabs a sword and orders him to unchain her. You now expect some kind of narrow escape sequence, evading guards and so on... except, the movie just cuts to her walking out of the castle with a satisfied smirk. Wait, what? Did the evil guy turn to stone? Did he live all alone in that huge fortress? It defies not just logic, but also the basic rules of storytelling; it's grotesquely anticlimactic.Even visually, here's an example of how little thought went into EverAfter. During the final confrontation, the stepmother is dressed in the same shade of deep green as the nice stepsister, while the wicked stepsister wears red. It doesn't make sense! You want to VISUALLY ASSOCIATE the two evil characters and make the good one STAND OUT. It may be a nitpick, but the movie is littered with this kind of sloppy choices.The movie features Leonardo da Vinci as a secondary character. The Italian genius has not been lucky as far as his cinematic appearances are concerned: between this, the Bruce Willis bomb Hudson Hawk, a cretinous potboiler like The Da Vinci Code and Paul W. S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers, it's ironic how a man of such legendary intelligence tends to be referenced only by stupid movies. His most enjoyable cameo may be in the comedy Non Ci Resta Che Piangere... where he is portrayed as dumb. Go figure... poor Leonardo.5/10

Every one has heard about this classic Cinderella story.I had read this story in my KG's,but Andy Tennant had done really a great work, to present this story in a different version with no magic and no fairies, rather he is try to depict that this Cinderella is a true story. Movie starts with an old lady, who is narrating this Cinderella story, to some authors who believed that Cinderella is just a story. The way Cinderella character portrayed in this movie is different from the story.Cinderella here likes books, brave, intelligent, innocent and beautiful.Drew Berrymore is just at her best as Cinderella.The inconsistent part is of Leonardo Da Vinci in this movie. The movie is refreshing, and had a new interpretation of Cinderella story. Do watch it.

Now, I'm a sci fi girl and there are very few 'chick flicks' that I have watched and loved, this however is surprisingly different. I have to say this is one of my favourite all time films. The characters are wonderful and perfectly played by the strong cast. I laugh every time I watch Danielle 'pick up' prince henry to save him from the gypsies and cry when Danielle arrives at the ball and says "just breathe" as her world is about to be crushed. It's the best version of the Cinderella story with a modern twist I have seen. I think I have watched this film a thousand times and will probably watch it a thousand more. Definitely worth a watch no matter what movie genre you're into!

If I could give this movie a million stars I would! This is the best Cinderella story ever (besides the Disney one). It's very realistic but still a fairy tale. Drew Barrymore is an excellent actress and Angelica Houston is just perfect. My husband watched it for the first time when we were just dating and he thought it was really good. I think he might be a little tired of it now though since I watch it all the time. I haven't really met anyone who doesn't like this movie. It's hard not to like it. It's a romantic movie with comedy and action. When Henry goes to rescue Danielle from that bad guy (I can never remember his name) and she basically rescued herself LOL I love it!