Of course Depp and Christina Ricci, (resplendent in a lovely blond wig) make a charismatic pair, smashingly done up in period costumes by Colleen Atwood, and audiences are likely to swallow almost any narrative strategy that sees them united by the films end. Andrew Kevin Walkers screenplay, which bears little relationship to Irvings story, doesn’t offer Katrina much to do beyond gazing at the bumbling tolerant affection. Still, she’s better off than Miranda Richardson as Lady Van Tassel, who scarcely appears in the film before being revealed as the wicked stepmother behind it all- and delivering a lengthy Dr- Evil style disquisition on her motives and methods