An unskilled young fairy godmother ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored.... (Full plot summary below)
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An unskilled young fairy godmother ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored.
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| RogerEbert.comNick AllenThe cuteness of Godmothered is a winning one overall, especially in how it uses a playful sense of humor and good heart to find its own way to Happily Ever After. |
| TheWrapAlonso DuraldeFor the most part, Godmothered is a mixed-bag of clever comedy and banal kid-movie clichés, but director Sharon Maguire (“Bridget Jones’ Baby”) and writers Kari Granlund (2019’s “Lady and the Tramp”) and Melissa Stack (“The Other Woman”) craft an ending that’s so emotionally and intellectually satisfying that it’s easy to forgive the film’s less magical attributes. |
| The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeWhat elevates Godmothered is an ending that manages to tie up the film’s familiar themes in a surprisingly moving way. |
| PolygonPetrana RadulovicThe result is a movie that interrogates Disney tropes but actually delivers on dismantling them. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAt least Bell and Fisher make the most of their screen time, with each playing off each other like close friends simply thrilled for the opportunity to frolic in the film’s ridiculous fantasyland. |
| Screen RantMolly FreemanGodmothered is a campy and heartfelt family-friendly Christmas flick, but ends up feeling like an adult rom-com shoehorned into a kids movie. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreA script that scrimps on laughs — not enough zingers or pratfalls — and relies on sentiment to get by lets them down. |
| SlashfilmJosh SpiegelMost of what Disney+ has released among its live-action fare is the kind of mid-budget movie that served as the Disney studio’s bread and butter in the 1990s. Godmothered, even with its connection to the Disney fairy-tale universe, is very much in line with those watchable, wholly unremarkable films. It helps that Jillian Bell and Isla Fisher do their best in predictable roles, but the roles being so predictable is hard to look past. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThe movie does serve up a rather satisfying ending, suggesting the studio’s latest politically correct reinterpretation of “true love.” The rest looks cheap and lacks much of a personality. |
| The GuardianAdrian HortonWhere Godmothered should coast, it stumbles – swerving between unwieldy earnestness to something edgier and settling on something duller than it should be. |
