Godmothered
Disney+ | Release Date (Streaming): December 4, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
RogerEbert.comNick AllenDec 9, 2020
The cuteness of Godmothered is a winning one overall, especially in how it uses a playful sense of humor and good heart to find its own way to Happily Ever After. Read full review
70
PolygonPetrana RadulovicDec 17, 2020
The result is a movie that interrogates Disney tropes but actually delivers on dismantling them. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeDec 2, 2020
What elevates Godmothered is an ending that manages to tie up the film’s familiar themes in a surprisingly moving way. Read full review
65
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeDec 2, 2020
For the most part, Godmothered is a mixed-bag of clever comedy and banal kid-movie clichés, but director Sharon Maguire (“Bridget Jones’ Baby”) and writers Kari Granlund (2019’s “Lady and the Tramp”) and Melissa Stack (“The Other Woman”) craft an ending that’s so emotionally and intellectually satisfying that it’s easy to forgive the film’s less magical attributes. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzDec 2, 2020
At least Bell and Fisher make the most of their screen time, with each playing off each other like close friends simply thrilled for the opportunity to frolic in the film’s ridiculous fantasyland. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 4, 2020
A script that scrimps on laughs — not enough zingers or pratfalls — and relies on sentiment to get by lets them down. Read full review
50
Screen RantMolly FreemanDec 3, 2020
Godmothered is a campy and heartfelt family-friendly Christmas flick, but ends up feeling like an adult rom-com shoehorned into a kids movie. Read full review
42
IndieWireKate ErblandDec 2, 2020
Godmothered has all the pieces for at least an amiable enough production. Instead, the result is a paradoxical combination of sweet messages and dull execution, good-hearted ideas and bizarre subplots, a dull affair that very clearly sprang from a good place. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanDec 4, 2020
Is the film trapped in Disney orthodoxy? If the shoe fits. Read full review
40
The GuardianAdrian HortonDec 3, 2020
Where Godmothered should coast, it stumbles – swerving between unwieldy earnestness to something edgier and settling on something duller than it should be. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 2, 2020
The movie does serve up a rather satisfying ending, suggesting the studio’s latest politically correct reinterpretation of “true love.” The rest looks cheap and lacks much of a personality. Read full review
40
SlashfilmJosh SpiegelDec 2, 2020
Most of what Disney+ has released among its live-action fare is the kind of mid-budget movie that served as the Disney studio’s bread and butter in the 1990s. Godmothered, even with its connection to the Disney fairy-tale universe, is very much in line with those watchable, wholly unremarkable films. It helps that Jillian Bell and Isla Fisher do their best in predictable roles, but the roles being so predictable is hard to look past. Read full review
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