unlike most animated features, which like to incorporate a layer of humour grown-ups can enjoy, adults might find it tough to sit through Charming without surreptitiously checking their email
it has the odd fun conceit but the set-up is tortured, the storytelling is episodic, the gags scattershot, the songs forgettable and the animation rudimentary. You’ll live happily ever after without it
by Jake Wilson [The Age (Australia) ]
