Ella Enchanted

As a "loosely inspired" update of the Cinderalla story, Ella Enchanted is very good. The story is recognisably similar, but different enough it doesn't feel slavish, or a tedious subversion. And the "Ella is forced to obey any command she hears" can be very heartbreaking.

But the other two-thirds, of a pseudo-medieval fairy tale setting with random and unconnected modern views of recycling, racial equality, boyband fangirls, etc grafted on, unsurprisingly bored me. (I don't know if it would be interesting to someone inclined to give it a go, or just inherently a bit inspipid).

Logicomix

OK, I wanted to like this more than I did, I probably didn't give it enough attention, but the premise is awesome: a comics retelling of Bertrand Russel's attempts to unify mathematical logic, framed as a flashback from one of his letters, framed by a semi-autobiographical depiction of the authors writing the comic and deciding what to include and how to frame it.

The latter was an inspired choice, as it lets them reframe stuff to be a bit more dramatically appropriate, while disclaiming the changes at the same time.