IMDb plot summary: A stubborn teenage girl finds herself confronted by whimsical characters when she is transported into a world of fantasy and fairy tales while attending a school marionette show.
Directed by Erik Peter Carlson. Starring Emily Shenaut, Brian Hull, and Gabriel Burrafato.
A Fairy Tale After All is about a high school girl who discovers a fantasy land where she is actually a princess trying to save her father from an evil witch. And it's one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. It so clearly wants to be Labyrinth, but it's incomprehensible and cheap-looking, the high school lead is clearly at least in her 30s, none of the jokes land, and the songs are bland ballad after bland ballad (with an occasional insufferable character song to break things up). On top of that, there are all these weird moments where I think the director is trying to get artsy with some black-and-white cinematography, but juxtaposed with these awful meta-jokes it just feels obliviously pretentious. The problem here is with the script first and foremost -- you can get away with low-budget filmmaking if you have a solid script, which just isn't the case here. It thinks it's being funny and poignant and creative when it's extremely... not, and the actors are so over-the-top and cheesy they don't do it any further favors. Just a mess of a movie from beginning to end.
How it entered my Flickchart:
A Fairy Tale After All < Hairspray (1988)
A Fairy Tale After All < The Little Princess (1939)
A Fairy Tale After All < Blood Heat
A Fairy Tale After All < Snow White and the Huntsman
A Fairy Tale After All > Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
A Fairy Tale After All < Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars
A Fairy Tale After All < The Prince & Me
A Fairy Tale After All > One for the Money
A Fairy Tale After All > The Littlest Rebel
A Fairy Tale After All < Devil
A Fairy Tale After All < The Brother From Another Planet
A Fairy Tale After All < VeggieTales: Lord of the Beans
Final spot: #3559 out of 3696, or 4%.
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