The Washington Post, April 9th, 2004
LIKE "EVER AFTER," another you-go-grrrl Cinderella story, "Ella Enchanted" is a fairy tale with a moral of female empowerment and self-sufficiency. In the end, it may leave its audience, young and old alike, just as charmed as its bewitched young heroine. Cursed since birth by her well-meaning but shortsighted godmother, Lucinda (Vivica A. Fox), a fairy who has given her goddaughter the magical "gift" of unfailing obedience, teenage Ella (Anne Hathaway) must do whatever anyone says, whenever they say it. While this sometimes leads to all-too-literal interpretations of offhand commands ("Hold ...
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