According to her bad appearance, a young girl from a royal family, Penelope, who suffers from a curse, that makes her looks like animals, the thing that makes people avoid her and afraid from her, so her parents struggle against helping her find a true love, as it is the only thing that would help her get rid of such a curse.
Director Palansky and screenwriter Leslie Caveny seem to have many of the right ingredients for creating something beguiling, but the film is, finally, surprisingly pedestrian. What a shame, with all these good performers.
Sweet as gingerbread, Penelope deserves to find an audience; those with a taste for happily-ever-afters should look for it, before it too-quickly disappears.
Urban Cinefile
August 29, 2008
Visually stylish, what might have been a cute fantasy becomes tedious due to its banal script and a relentless overload of pig-jokes.
