The Ugly Duckling And Me! Review

Ugly Duckling And Me!, The
Hans Christian Anderson's tale gets the big-screen treatment.

by Kat Brown |
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Release Date:

08 Feb 2008

Running Time:

89 minutes

Certificate:

U

Original Title:

Ugly Duckling And Me!, The

Hans Christian Andersen’s story of beast becoming beauty is probably the best-known fairy tale to escape Disney’s grasp, and given the slenderness of the plot, that’s probably fair. The feather-light story - duckling’s born, bullied, realises it’s a beautiful swan, sticks up two fingers at everyone - means more is needed to fill 90 minutes, in this case a rat who tries to make the cygnet a carnival attraction.

Young children will find the easy moralising comfortingly familiar, and the CGI is fine. Still, this mediocre stab is like choosing carob over chocolate: faintly depressing and fooling nobody.

Feather light and strikingly mediocre, this is a bland effort.
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