"Penelope" is a multifarious oddity . It might be a flowery fairytale from the surface, but it tends to paint some subduing and gritty pictures, especially when we see the hero (James McAcvoy) constantly gamble away his money at a shady bar. Also, there are witches and curses in the beginning, but as the plot untangles, we are stuck witnessing a world where there are no wireless phones and headlines are downsized to report petty things like 'a girl who looks like a pig says "hello"'. Now that I mention it, the story is about a girl who has the snout of a pig. Funny thing, because at the movie's inception, we are made to believe that she also has the ears of a pig, but the movie conveniently decides to not show us that part. Anyways, the reason why I keep on mentioning the beginning is because that's the only part of the movie I truly enjoyed. The beginning is so different than the middle and the end. Well, that's because the upcoming love story is too awkward and the background characters (Reese Witherspoon and that other bar guy) are too random and unnecessary. Penelope would not seem that atrocious in our world, where I am sure there are people with more severe and turgid facial problems. So excuse me when I say, that this movie does not cut it.
Review of Penelope
