YMMV / Charming

• Alternate Aesop Interpretation: The lesson Lenore's supposed to learn at the end is "living alone with your wealth is a bad way to live", but given what she does after learning it, there's enough wiggle room to interpret it as "you can't have both a lucrative career and a love life, so you should give up that career and let your boyfriend/husband provide for you".
• Awesome Music:
  • "Trophy Boy" may be fairly shallow, but it's still awesome. What else would you expect from a song sung by a trio consisting of Avril Lavigne, Ashley Tisdale, and G.E.M.?
  • "Balladino", sung by Sia, is a Disney Acid Sequence with a surprisingly tender melody that illustrate's the main character's internal conflict.
• Cliché Storm: A prince is cursed and must go on a standard fantasy quest to lift the curse before the arbitrary time limit. He's joined by a thief who's presented as being Not Like Other Girls, and while they bicker at first they eventually fall in love and hook up (after the obligatory Not What It Looks Like moment where they believe the other doesn't return their feelings). Several fairy tales get lampooned along the way, in manners that have already been done to death by other Fractured Fairy Tale stories (e.g. Sleeping Beauty having narcolepsy).
• Designated Hero: Phillipe's meant to be our sympathetic hero, but a combination of lack of adherence to Show, Don't Tell (they say he dislikes his curse and doesn't try to take advantage of it, but the multiple scenes of him flirting with various women despite this say otherwise) and his general uselessness during the gauntlet make it hard to see why we're supposed to root for him.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: While not that many people have strong feelings on the film, a lot of them agree on the Half-Oracle being their favorite character. Interesting design, quirky personality, a fairly different (though not revolutionary) take on the Seer trope and a Disney Acid Sequence set to a pretty well-made song ("Balladino") sung by Sia.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The fact that the movie's romantic leads are played by Wilmer Valderrama and Demi Lovato feels incredibly cringeworthy in hindsight considering their prior romantic relationship and how Lovato would later slam him for dating her despite the massive age gap between the two.
• One-Scene Wonder: While she doesn't get much screentime, the Half-Oracle tends to be remembered by a lot of people who saw the film thanks to her Disney Acid Sequence.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Lenore mentions in an offhand comment that she was born and raised at sea. Considering how little sense Nemeny cursing her to never feel love makes at closer glance, it would've been more interesting if it had been revealed that the reason she's immune to Phillipe's charm is due to a loophole in his own curse — that he makes every woman in the land fall for him, but it doesn't work on Lenore because she isn't from the land.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The three princesses are all presented as stuck-up Alpha Bitch types in comparison to Lenore, but between their life circumstances (namely, the fairy tales they originate from) and the discovery that their fiancé was essentially cheating on them all, they come off as more sympathetic than intended. This especially applies to Snow White; during the scene where the trio's character flaws are shown off, hers are shown to be paranoia and a fear of apples — both of which come off as completely understandable Trauma Buttons instead of flaws.
  Musical Hell: It's funny because multiple attempts on her life have left her with severe PTSD, and now she's no longer marriage material!

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