I never found Cherita's involvement in the movie to be as humorous as most people did. I always felt really sorry for her.

Same thing with Gollum from Two Towers. Everyone in the audience was laughing at the scene where he was arguing with himself, and it wasn't intended to be humorous. It was supposed to be painful, but because he's an animated side-character, that automatically means everything he does is intended for comedic relief? I applied the same thing to Cherita.