"Ever After"

Welcome back to our blog after a very eventful and busy summer!  Starting things off again we found ourselves sitting down to cheap Chinese take out, and watching 'Ever After,' which if you haven't seen it, is a take on Cinderella.  As Bethany and I sat down to watch this, I was transported back to my days of driving the two and a half hours to Spokane where she was studying at Whitworth University (while we were still dating.)  I think watching this made me think about those late nights we would stay up in the dorm or at a friends house watching a romantic comedy.  At the time, watching a movie like that with her wasn't the chore that it sometimes is these days, which is of course why we started blogging all of our movies in the first place.  As I watched 'Ever After' tonight though, I didn't find myself wishing I was doing something else....I found myself enjoying a somewhat sappy, predictable, and lets face it, girly movie; with my wife next to me, our dog lying at our feet, and just a sappy condition all around.  What a great way to spend an evening.....I can't wait for 'Gladiator!'

-David

What a delightful evening. After a wonderful, but eventful summer, along with finishing my first week back at work, it was pure delight to spend two hours sitting on the couch with my husband watching Ever After. I do love this movie. It's a fun twist on the Cinderella story, with romance, humor, Leonardo Da Vinci and again, romance. Oh, and lets not forget the gypsies!

All the actors do a great job, especially the minor and supporting characters, such as the servants, the gypsies, the King and Queen...they really do add to the story by their simple acts of compassion, laughter, mischievousness, etc.

Some differences I appreciate from the original Cinderella story; I like how there really is only one evil stepsister. Though there are two stepsisters, there's one who shows the main character compassion, adding new dimension to this tale. An actor playing Leonardo Da Vinci also has a significant role, almost acting as the Fairy Godmother, which I didn't really think about until my husband pointed it out.

If you like good stories, and a bit of romance, I would definitely recommend Ever After. And, as Cinderella's great-great granddaughter says at the end, the point isn't that they lived happily ever after, but that they lived.

-Bethany