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Charming

USA 2005
produced by
Scott David Russell
directed by Carly Lyn
starring Erik Mathew, Arloa Reston, Ajay Vidure, Jmeka Cherrel, Hyosun Choi, Joey D'Auria, Lakecia Harris, Mike Holley, Kristin Norris
written by Carly Lyn, music by Shawn K.Clement

short

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Charming (Erik Mathew) lives in a fairytale land where mediocrity roles, and if you excel in something, anything, you are automatically labelled a freak. This is a bad thing, because Charming has always been an A-student, eloquent and, well, charming - very unlike his lame-brained brother Chuck (Ajay Vidure), whom everybody regards as the epitomy of virtue due to his mediocrity.

One day, lovely Jade (Arloa Reston) falls ill, and only the kiss of someone who loves her can save her life (accept it, because hey, it's a fairytale) - but the mediocrity of the whole comunity has long bred apathy, and thus nobody cares enough to kiss, to love, or to even save a life. Only Charming cares, kisses the maid, and for him it's love at first sight, er, kiss. Everyone else though thinks he has made a fool of himself and embarrassed the girl, and even she at first reacts far from grateful. Only later, she agrees to meet him, at midnight, at the fountain ...

That night, the fountain: With the approaching midnight, Charming grows more and more nervous, so much so that he eventually asks Chuck for advice ... which almost leads to disaster, because instead of giving her his skillfully written loveletter, he reacts to her with total apathy following Chuck's suggestion and sends the woman he loves away, throwing her back into a life of mediocrity and himself with her ... until a little cupid hands her his loveletter after all, and Jade rushes back to him and throws herself into his arms - because, as the two of them only now learn, it's ok to be charming ...

 

Charmning is, as the title suggests, charming, and not for telling another fairytale lovestory but for turning the genre onto its head and let it make fun of itself. That's not the whole trick of the movie though, because everybody with an ounce of humour can make fun of the fairytale formula. Charming isn't taking the route of obvious jokes though but uses subtle humour to deconstruct the formula stone by stone, then put it back together in a cute but not cheesy way.

That all said, it's probably a good thing that Charming isn't any longer than 15 minutes, because its brand of humour would possibly have run dry pretty soon, but that's only to say that the short format is the exactly right format for the film.

Recommended.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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