The beautiful princess Giselle (Amy Adams) is banished by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) from her magical, musical animated land – and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn’t operate on a happily ever after basis, Giselle is adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who has come to her aid – even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince (James Marsden) back home. Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
This is a children's story, a virtuous girls dream, and a young boys instructional fantasy on how to find true love. For the last twenty-five years the corporate geniuses and creative marketing minds at Disney have brought us the perfect fairy tales. Packaging happy feelings of love, dreams, and laughter in to two hour films for $7.00 per person annually! Enchanted is no exception to this tradition.
Enchanted has successfully brought our childhood to life, creating a magical world of dragons, handsome prince's, mischievous sidekicks, evil queens, and beautiful princess in real time. Disney brought our old dreams to us and showed how they could thrive in our realities of practicality, cynicism, and pessimism. kudos! I certainly have a hard time living in this world, but I at least have the comfort of knowing that somewhere, somebody in this great world has just broken out in random song to sing about holding hands and hugging trees.
That makes everything little better, and why shouldn't it?
See also: Princess Bride, Snow White, and Sound of Music.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Enchanted : B
Posted by everyone's a critic at 4:23 PM
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I also enjoyed this movie--but would have given it an A. Although, the part of the rodents cleaning made me a bit squemish.
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I thought they did a great job making fun of the "typical" fairytale stuff. I loved the part when she had a fancy new dress on - I actually wondered out load where she got it, and then they showed the curtains!! SO FUNNY.
Parker - you need to see closing escrow, and be kind rewind - I want a review on those.
Review Happy Valley too!
I have been curious about this movie... so thank you! I am curious about Beowulf. I want to see it but Shaun doesn't. Have you seen that one?
I just found your Beowulf post! I guess I should have looked first! Thanks!
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