Lightning in a Bottle

Okay, so last Wednesday (Feb. 20th) a friend and I went to an advanced screening of the Christina Ricci/James McAvoy movie Penelope. Now, I've been wanting to see this movie since September when I caught a preview of it at the beginning of some movie I can't seem to remember at the moment. It looked lovely and fresh and witty and seriously it had James McAvoy in it which was more then enough. So I looked it up and found every little bit of information I could on it and I waited, and waited and waited till I was sure this would be one of those movies you'd die to see but will spend the rest of your life never having seen it.

I was wrong (thank god) so when I got the free passes I was so excited. My friend and I made a whole night out of it; movie, dinner and then Chapter and Wal-Mart to hang out and goof off. It was awesome. 

So today I get my RottenTomatoe newsletter and imagine my shock and disappointment when I find that the idiots over there didn't give this wonderful little movie a fresh rating but a rotten one instead? I'm not sure they watched the same movie as I did but there is no way this movie doesn't deserve a fresh rating. Right now I am so pissed off.

And then I remembered that the day after I saw this movie I wrote a review of it for IMDB.com and I have now decided to post that same review here to right the mistake made my RottenTomatoes and to give people wanting to see it a different prospective. Be warned before you read though, there is a small kinda spoiler but I have marked it in the review so you'll know what to skip should you want to. All I can hope is that my review does this movie justice and that it inspires people to take a chance on this charming little fairytale.