Enchanted Review

Enchanted: Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey star in Disney’s latest fairytale. The idea for the movie is extremely imaginative. The film starts out in animation “Snow White style” – Giselle, a young princess falls in love with a young prince. This angers the prince’s mother/evil queen, so she sends Giselle (Amy Adams) to another dimension where there is “no such thing as real love” – modern day Manhattan. Once in Manhattan, Adams is transformed into a human girl although her ideals remain the same and she continues to break out into song at any given moment. She meets a divorce lawyer (Dempsey) who tries to help her find her way home while at the same time learns from the naive Giselle that love can be everything it is cracked up to be in the fairytales. The film is full of charm, as more characters from the fairytale world enter the real world carrying on exactly as if they were still animated. The idea was pulled off perfectly up until the last act of the film. It was if the writers did not know how to end it so they went for some big spectacle which was not needed. I cannot say enough good things about Amy Adams’s performance. I would not be surprised at all if she gets nominated come Oscar time for this role. Enchanted also does a good job of paying homage to many of the past Disney fairytales, ie Cinderella, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, and Sleeping Beauty. The film succeeds in being entertaining for both adults and kids which is just wonderful for the holiday season.
* * * and ½ or Grade: B+
If this movie had parents they would be: Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Princess Bride.

With a runtime of 105 minutes
This film is rated PG