"Pert from the front and a vision from behind" - This is such a wonderful televisual experience that I have to watch the whole mini-series once a year at least. It is a superb fairy tale loosely based on all your favourite child-hood tales from the Brothers Grimm, with an obligatory trip to the tenth kingdom (New York, of course). The ensemble cast are superb (except, maybe, for the disappointing performances from Ann-Margret and Snow White, which are based more on renown than upon suitability for the role!) Dianne Wiest once again proves that she deserves an award for every production in which she appears. She is ably supported by the wonderful Scott Cohen (where was his Emmy for this role?) and Kimberly Williams. John Larroquette is at his very best as the NY janitor who proves that whatever can goes wrong will go wrong. Rutger Hauer creates one of his best characters since he appeared in Bladerunner and the trolls are superb: "suck an elf" is such a well crafted catch-phrase and the general incompetence of the three children of the Troll King is amply demonstrated by the wonderful self-description "I am Bluebell the troll, terrified throughout the Nine Kingdoms". The Shepherdess competition is a sublime piece of television - no-one will ever hear "We will rock you" again without a small smile as "we will shear you" comes to mind. Watch this, love this, watch it again!

The 10th kingdom is long... 7 hours long... Is it worth it though? Yes and No, the film is a re-telling of all the classics fairy tales and nursery rhymes but the twist is that they are all connected to each other in one way or another. Think Once upon a time without the headache inducing family tree they have going on and you'll get the picture.This one is hard to review because DVD which is the first 1/3 of the movie is really boring, whatever you think will happen will actually happen, there is no clever twist or interesting dialog.The visuals are lovely and very colourful but the effects haven't aged well. I almost stopped watching half way through the first DVD but my friend egged me on.To it's credit it does get better as you get to the second DVD, the characters of the fairy tales are more alive and our heroes become part of the story not just outsiders to it.There are better movies out there for this genre and considering the running time of this movie I would rate it as white bread. It's not the best thing on the shelf but it's not the worst either and if you want to spend a little quality time with loved ones on a rainy day then it's a good movie to pop in.

This series released in 2000, but in my country I saw it for the first time in 2003 or 2004 on TV. And from the first time I loved it. Now 9 years passed and I watched it probably 10 times. And every time with great pleasure. Our TV channels air this mini-series during summer holidays.This is the adventure of girl, her father, her lover and dog-turned-prince. With the help of magical mirror wolf and trolls chase dog to modern New York city. Dog meets with Virginia. Wolf sees Virginia and loves her. With the help of wolf they travel to parallel world where Virginia's mother is Evil Queen.I recommend everyone to watch this.Watch and Enjoy!!!!!

Having not watched regular TV since the mid 90s, I simply had not heard of this TV network special. But when I saw the DVD case on the store shelf it piqued my interest.I saw the $9 price tag, smirked. On the cover the box bragged an all star cast for what I figured had to be a direct to video title. Ann Margaret, Rutger Hauer, Camryn Manheim and others? I scratched my head. Why hadn't I heard about this piece before? Well, Ed O'Neil and John Laroquette, a pair of TV's most infamous, were also in this film. Had I my answer? Partially.Well, it wasn't a major motion picture with theatrical release written all over it, but the cast was impressive enough, and the fact that there was more than one DVD in the case married to a $9 price tag, how could I go wrong? I took a chance, and wasn't too surprised with what I found. It certainly wasn't Pete Jackson's Lord of the Rings saga, nor even a Disney take on an old fairy tale, but a "modern" spin on a conglomeration of tales revisited for those who grew up with them.It's a made for TV flick, but done with quite a few familiar faces, shot in standard format. The thing this series has going for it is the amount of content contained within it. I liked "The Odyssey" and the "Gulliver" productions because of the scale, scope and ambition of those films, but "The 10th Kingdom" didn't seem to strike the same chord as those other features.Still, it's a very capable production which entertains in a mediocre television vein. The effects are fairly prosaic, and nothing in particular is done with the basic visuals, but it's an okay TV special with some endearing characters (though I'm not sure I would've cast Scott Cohen in the leading "wolf" role).Good decent fun. If you have nine bucks burning a hole in your pocket, then go ahead and take a chance on this three disk DVD set. You won't be disappointed.