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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeThe A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeWhat elevates Godmothered is an ending that manages to tie up the film’s familiar themes in a surprisingly moving way.
- 65TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeFor 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.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAt 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.
- 50Screen RantMolly FreemanScreen RantMolly FreemanGodmothered is a campy and heartfelt family-friendly Christmas flick, but ends up feeling like an adult rom-com shoehorned into a kids movie.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreA script that scrimps on laughs — not enough zingers or pratfalls — and relies on sentiment to get by lets them down.
- 42IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandGodmothered 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.
- 40SlashfilmJosh SpiegelSlashfilmJosh SpiegelMost 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.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe 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.
- 40The GuardianAdrian HortonThe GuardianAdrian HortonWhere Godmothered should coast, it stumbles – swerving between unwieldy earnestness to something edgier and settling on something duller than it should be.
- 40The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanThe New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanIs the film trapped in Disney orthodoxy? If the shoe fits.