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best movie i've ever seen.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Spwysteve: But what was the confessions of the ugly stepsister? And who was the ugly stepsister? Why wasn't this called Confessions of an Ugly Stepmother?-----------Iris was the "ugly stepsister". This film shows a more realistic and complex version of the fairy tale, while it still mainly follows the original plot. You don't watch the movie, thinking it's exactly the same as the fairy tale, and then be disappointed its not. I think the movie was very cute, and more realistic than the fairy tale. I loved the role of casper.

to start, i have to say that i read the book long before this was ever on television...which is where a lot of this is coming from. i was really excited to see that it was to be on TV because i loved the book; it's well-written and thought-provoking and any other hyphenated adjective you can think of. needless to say, i was very disappointed with the adaptation, if you can even call it that...the characters have the same names, sure, and part of the basic skeleton is there, i guess. but the one of the best qualities of the book was completely ignored...its darkness. this movie is so sappy that i think i got a cavity just watching it. they made it nice and neat and bright and happy. which is really unfortunate because there are a lot of unexpected twists that gregory maguire adds to the Cinderella tale that are not all sweetness and good. that's what makes it different and interesting. but the movie is lacking so much. azura skye did an o.k. job with what she was given, but she's just not plain enough to pull it off as an "ugly" girl. stockard channing was not as good as margarethe, i think she was miscast, but again, she did what she could with what she was given. if i hadn't read the book, i'd say that it's not that it's a majorly bad TV movie by itself...again, if you haven't read the book, it's o.k. and not bad for kids, what with the nicey-nice message the saturated it with. but if you want the real story, as always...just read the book.

I have to judge this movie as both a book adaptation and as a tv-movie. As a book adaptation, I give this movie a 5 or maybe even less. Several things that were changed from the book bothered me. One major one was the use of magic in the film, when the gypsy "magics" the shoes for Clara. The lack of magic was in the book for a reason. Gregory Maguire wanted his meditation on beauty and ugliness to take center stage in the story. Another major change was how Iris and Casper meet. If you've read the book then maybe you can understand why. I feel that their introduction in the movie makes Iris too self-conscious thus making her aware of herself whereas in the book she is taken by surprise and Casper catches a glimpse of the "real" Iris. Other changes bothered me as well such as the narrator of the whole story, where Clara's mother was, the attitudes of Clara and Margarethe. I also wish that the Margarethe's rumor about Casper had stayed in the film. However, the movie, when one forgets Maguire's magnificent work, succeeds. The costuming and the acting of Stockard Channing and Emma Poole make this movie a treat to watch. If you are disappointed by the way that some of the characters look such as I was with Casper(Matthew Goode was fine in the movie, but I envisioned something completely different), be glad that they didn't cast someone who wasn't even close to ugly, as Iris. A disappointment to Maguire's fans, but a treat to all others, I hope that if this book is ever made into a movie that Maguire himself adapts his book. I'm just glad that they didn't do "Wicked." I shudder at the thought.

Much of the darkness has been stripped or made shallow for this movie, but overall, this was a charming version of Maguire's story. The acting was great (Stockard Channing RULES!), the scenery & cinematography was lovely, and the writers tried to stay true to Maguire's examination of the truth behind beauty versus ugliness. (And of course, neither of the stepsisters were *ugly*.)