Il était une fois

Though things, naturally, wrap up in a twee little bow of happy endings (this is wry Disney, but it’s still Disney), the tangle beforehand is a silly, retro blast.

...et værk, som i den grad lever op til sin titel.

The birds, flowers, chipmunks and cockroaches even love her and do her bidding. Listen, if you could employ the roaches of the world, you'd have a hell of a work force.

...silly as they may look once you take it apart, irony-free, romantic fantasy—animated and otherwise—still has a place on the big screen.

It’s impossible to watch Adams navigate herself through Midtown Manhattan in an enormous hoop skirt and not grin from ear to ear.