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Penelope. A modern interpretation of Beauty and the Beast. However, the beauty is the beast and she needs to marry someone royal to break the curse. Penelope is the beauty with a pig nose and ears. Frankly, she doesn’t really look that bad as those blue blood bachelors appear to be so afraid of her. Although it’s a twist of the classic story, the movie has a modern feel of love’s status quo – giving up and letting go and then eventually finding love again as fate’s declaration.

Enchanted

Enchanted. Lots of colors, dancing and finding prince charming. This film is a combination of two or more fairy tales. You’ll figure out Cinderella, Snow White and somehow Sleeping Beauty. There is also a crossover between reality and cartoons. Although there is the whole usual love story hullabaloo, there is a impressive comparison of the stepmother character. While the princess is being destroyed by her stepmother, she actually becomes a stepmother herself, but of course, the good kind.

A Cinderella Story

Cinderella Story. No doubt about this movie being a new version of Cinderella. However, it is teenage Cinderella. It does not lose the elements of the original story, but it has some teenage dilemmas like going to college and crushing on a boy and definitely the prom.

What a Girl Wants. A Cinderella-ish story, or as far as the stepmother and stepsister are concerned. Generally, it does not have most of the original story. The emphasis is more on the father-daughter relationship – reconnecting or something like that. It’s not really about being with prince charming, but it is about being with daddy.

Aquamarine. Love and fish tails. Another version of the Little Mermaid. Same old, same old except the princess has found true love in a different way. Not with a prince charming, but with friends who take care of her while she has to prove to her father that love exists indeed. A quiet teeny bopping wet film, but it’s all worth it.

The Prince and Me

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Prince and Me. Not really based on some old fairy tale stories, but there is the prince charming and the girl who has swept him away. The movie has real possibilities. Anybody could still continue to hope that “someday her prince will come.”

Princess Diaries. The fairy godmother in this film is actually the grandmother. Don’t you just wish that somehow an unknown relative will give you everything you could imagine in a great life? This movie shows the complete picture of how to be a royalty, which is not all dress-up and tea parties. It literally shows the social graces and processes of becoming and being a princess.

Ella Enchanted. Another knitted story from classic pieces. This movie is more on Sleeping Beauty and being lucky enough to be gifted with goodness. However, that certain spark of goodness has made everything a little challenging. It’s story of a funny and honest misadventure of a princess.

Sidney White. A breakthrough and almost literal story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This time, it is about a girl who conquers college with her seven geeky friends. It’s actually about college Greek system and its divide. Another title that would fit this movie is “Snow White goes to College.”

Ever After. This is the most enchanting modern interpretation of Cinderella. It is almost the classic. Perhaps the story is modified a little, especially with the great costumes and music.