Review - Penelope
PENELOPE [PG]
After sitting on a shelf for nearly two years, distributor Summit Entertainment, finally unveils this modern-day fairy tale about a girl named Penelope (duh), played by Christina Ricci (Black Snake Moan), who was born with the face of a pig. After living her life in the shadows, she becomes an unlikely celebrity when the public finally sees her face. Does this long lurking-about have something to do with being a dog (or more appropriately, a pig in a frilly frock), or instead a matter of the producers not knowing how to market such a prickly porcine picture? A little of both, it would seem.
Essentially a gender-flipped remake of Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (with the whimsy noticeably forced), director Mark Palansky (former assistant to Michael Bay, but we can at least forgive him that) takes a pretty pedestrian approach to “Everybody Loves Raymond” writer Leslie Caveny’s first produced script. […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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