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Grey’s Anatomy meets Snow White and Prince Charming sans the dwarfs in New York. This movie is an interesting 1 hour and 47 minute mix of animation, fantasy, and musical. Patrick Dempsey brings to this movie the angst and misdirected love interest theme to this movie as the divorced single parent with a girlfriend. All of a sudden the soon to be princess, banished from her animatino land to real world NY by the jealous stepmother of the doltish Prince Charming played by a gaunt James Marsden who soon also makes the transformation from animation to real world. It is quite an interesting romp with one of the highlights being the princess to be cleaning up McDreamy’s apartment with the local animals which happen to be rats, mice, pigeons, and the leftover cast of singing roaches from Joe’s Apartment. The movie is good entertainment for all ages and has something for everybody, including a King Kong type finish for the evil Queen. Who would have thought that Patrick Dempsey could sing or ballroom dance or that Jame Marsden could play a comic role compared to his role in the X-Men trilogy or some of the more dramatic roles such as 10th and Wolf or Gossip or his teen thrillers such as Disturbing Behavior and Campfire Tales. Even EW gave it a B+ average. Rotten Tomatoes says 93% fresh. I would have to agree. An entertaining movie with a few really good production scenes. Is there an underlying moral in there somewhere regarding true love, love and first sight, or good triumphing over evil? You can probably read one in there somewhere. Even sans interpretation, it is a movie that could make your worst day a little bit better. I do think, however, that they could have found a better looking “girlfriend” for McDreamy than Idina Menzel who has to have one of the biggest and ugliest mouths on the big screen. Not to give away the plot too bad, but the ending is as expected. McDreamy gets the animated princess come to life, and the Prince goes back to his animated kingdom taking the jilted girlfriend. And in both worlds they all lived happily ever after.