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Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Timothy Spall, Idina Mendel, Rachel Covey
Screenplay: Bill Kelly
107 minutes / Color
When it comes to “Enchanted”, I must say that it is the most joyful, un-expecting, underrated achievement of the year. Actually, the best of the year really; it’s gonna take a lot of balls to say this but YES its better then “Hairspray” and “American Gangster”, which is the two other best films I’ve seen in this rather week year. And wow, the character development, hilarious screenplay and great underestimated direction of Kevin Lima. Did I forget to say the songs?
“Enchanted” is the story of a 2D storybook princess named Giselle (Amy Adams), living in a hollow tree in a magical land full of singing animals, evil stepmothers and grand weddings. When she soon gets engaged to the handsome Prince Edward (James Marsden), his evil step mother Narissa (Susan Sarandon) fears that if she marries her son, that she’ll loose her beautiful position as Queen. Thinking fast, she gets into the form of an old lady and pushes Giselle in a portal disguised as wishing well.
Giselle soon arrives in a whole new world without “happy endings”, a world were danger is everywhere, a world where there are no castles and definitely no Prince Edwards: New York City. Giselle is swept of her feet in a mean world with harsh realities and is bedazzled and scared of the sights and sounds of the big apple.
After a while of panic, Giselle meets lawyer divorced Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey) and his daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey). When they save her from a near death experience, Giselle moves home with them where she starts working her “happy” magic and turns New York around with her singing in the park, crying for divorcees, talking to animals and experiencing new emotions.
Meanwhile, Edward discovers the portal and is around New York searching for his long lost love with his man servant Nathaniel (Timothy Spall), who is actually working for his evil mother and trying to make the prince avoid her. Slowly, Robert and Giselle start having a connection and start falling in love.
When Edward finally finds Giselle, they decide to leave when the town’s Ball ends that night. Narissa gets so angry that she decides to take matters in her own hands and goes to New York to kill Giselle herself.
She soon arrives at the ball and persuades Giselle to take a bite at an apple (which is obviously poisonous) so that all her memories of New York will be gone. Giselle is so sad that she has to leave Robert and Morgan whom she loves and takes a bite without thinking. Giselle falls cold on her back and dies.
The End.
Just kidding. Robert remembers exactly what Giselle said to him: “A true loves kiss is the strongest thing in the world”. But Edwards kiss wasn’t working and he goes for it himself. And it works! Giselle awakens like it was all a bad dream. But Narissa is still furious and transforms herself into a big dragon and tries to kill all.
With the power of true love, Giselle and Robert and Pip (the talking squirrel), the three beats Queen Narissa and they live happily ever after. If you’re wondering about Prince Edward, he’s okay; he ended up with Robert’s fiancé.
To begin with, I will say it again, but the movie is utterly underrated. It was such a fun picture from beginning to end and it brightened up my boring, dark week. It’s an awesome feel good movie. Seeing 2D animation was gorgeous. The animation was gorgeous. Well, even the live action characters too, anyways. Oh Amy Adams, she’s my new favorite Disney princess.
Amy Adams was adorable. I have to say, if she doesn’t get nominated for this year’s Best Actress Oscar, boycotting the show is very likely for me. Oh she was just so amazing and charming and beautiful Even her cartoon version had a lot of charisma. But don’t be misleading by the trailer. Her acting is not corny at all. She was so genuine and perky and I’m singling her out as the best performance of the year…so far. She was so great. Her singing is well matching with her whole package and she goes in the leagues of some of the greats like Jodie Benson.
Her character development is the best. She starts out as a perky Disney Princess looking for her way home, estranged and frightened of the new world before her. In the end, she’s a grown woman who has experienced the many emotions of anger and sexuality and sadness. It’s really hard to keep a performance like this up. When she was frightened I was frightened, when she was sad I felt sorry for her. She keeps this whole Oscar worthy performance up with a great sense of humor and comic relief. That one scene where she was experiencing anger for the first time was so fine. Her range of acting was so stupendous. Amy Adams should be in more movies and should definitely be considered a very possible win for a Best Actress Oscar this year.
The rest of the cast was funny and amusing. Shan’t forget Prince Edward, played by the hilarious James Marsden. Musicals are really his thing (remember “Hairspray”?). He should never, ever go back to that horrifying franchise called X-Men. Those films show none of his acting range. He could do so much better. He’s such a flamboyant actor and was really funny too.
When it comes to the music part of the story, the musical numbers where are interesting and were all showstoppers. Simply irresistible they were. The opening number “Love’s Fist Kiss” in the cartoon world really takes us back to those times when Disney wasn’t hypnotized by the power of Pixar and CGI. The “Happy Working Song” number was very cute and charming, while “So Close” gave us such a romantic feeling. Songwriters Alan Menken and Stephen Swartz really did a great job. Kudos! The score by Menken was fantastic. The biggest and best musical number was “That’s How You Know”. The mix of new contemporary type music and “princess” type music really appealed to the audience. It was so fascinating; from Amy Adam’s cool voice to the dancers and staging. Ahhh, perfecto.
Overall, I enjoyed the movie. Maybe a little too much, but I really enjoyed it. It was a scrumptious treat and deserves all the recognition I give it. Amy Adams is a star. A star which gives a terrific performance that shouldn’t be ignored at all this award season. “Enchanted” is really very much so what the title indicates: Enchanted.
Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Timothy Spall, Idina Mendel, Rachel Covey
Screenplay: Bill Kelly
107 minutes / Color
When it comes to “Enchanted”, I must say that it is the most joyful, un-expecting, underrated achievement of the year. Actually, the best of the year really; it’s gonna take a lot of balls to say this but YES its better then “Hairspray” and “American Gangster”, which is the two other best films I’ve seen in this rather week year. And wow, the character development, hilarious screenplay and great underestimated direction of Kevin Lima. Did I forget to say the songs?
“Enchanted” is the story of a 2D storybook princess named Giselle (Amy Adams), living in a hollow tree in a magical land full of singing animals, evil stepmothers and grand weddings. When she soon gets engaged to the handsome Prince Edward (James Marsden), his evil step mother Narissa (Susan Sarandon) fears that if she marries her son, that she’ll loose her beautiful position as Queen. Thinking fast, she gets into the form of an old lady and pushes Giselle in a portal disguised as wishing well.
Giselle soon arrives in a whole new world without “happy endings”, a world were danger is everywhere, a world where there are no castles and definitely no Prince Edwards: New York City. Giselle is swept of her feet in a mean world with harsh realities and is bedazzled and scared of the sights and sounds of the big apple.
After a while of panic, Giselle meets lawyer divorced Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey) and his daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey). When they save her from a near death experience, Giselle moves home with them where she starts working her “happy” magic and turns New York around with her singing in the park, crying for divorcees, talking to animals and experiencing new emotions.
Meanwhile, Edward discovers the portal and is around New York searching for his long lost love with his man servant Nathaniel (Timothy Spall), who is actually working for his evil mother and trying to make the prince avoid her. Slowly, Robert and Giselle start having a connection and start falling in love.
When Edward finally finds Giselle, they decide to leave when the town’s Ball ends that night. Narissa gets so angry that she decides to take matters in her own hands and goes to New York to kill Giselle herself.
She soon arrives at the ball and persuades Giselle to take a bite at an apple (which is obviously poisonous) so that all her memories of New York will be gone. Giselle is so sad that she has to leave Robert and Morgan whom she loves and takes a bite without thinking. Giselle falls cold on her back and dies.
The End.
Just kidding. Robert remembers exactly what Giselle said to him: “A true loves kiss is the strongest thing in the world”. But Edwards kiss wasn’t working and he goes for it himself. And it works! Giselle awakens like it was all a bad dream. But Narissa is still furious and transforms herself into a big dragon and tries to kill all.
With the power of true love, Giselle and Robert and Pip (the talking squirrel), the three beats Queen Narissa and they live happily ever after. If you’re wondering about Prince Edward, he’s okay; he ended up with Robert’s fiancé.
To begin with, I will say it again, but the movie is utterly underrated. It was such a fun picture from beginning to end and it brightened up my boring, dark week. It’s an awesome feel good movie. Seeing 2D animation was gorgeous. The animation was gorgeous. Well, even the live action characters too, anyways. Oh Amy Adams, she’s my new favorite Disney princess.
Amy Adams was adorable. I have to say, if she doesn’t get nominated for this year’s Best Actress Oscar, boycotting the show is very likely for me. Oh she was just so amazing and charming and beautiful Even her cartoon version had a lot of charisma. But don’t be misleading by the trailer. Her acting is not corny at all. She was so genuine and perky and I’m singling her out as the best performance of the year…so far. She was so great. Her singing is well matching with her whole package and she goes in the leagues of some of the greats like Jodie Benson.
Her character development is the best. She starts out as a perky Disney Princess looking for her way home, estranged and frightened of the new world before her. In the end, she’s a grown woman who has experienced the many emotions of anger and sexuality and sadness. It’s really hard to keep a performance like this up. When she was frightened I was frightened, when she was sad I felt sorry for her. She keeps this whole Oscar worthy performance up with a great sense of humor and comic relief. That one scene where she was experiencing anger for the first time was so fine. Her range of acting was so stupendous. Amy Adams should be in more movies and should definitely be considered a very possible win for a Best Actress Oscar this year.
The rest of the cast was funny and amusing. Shan’t forget Prince Edward, played by the hilarious James Marsden. Musicals are really his thing (remember “Hairspray”?). He should never, ever go back to that horrifying franchise called X-Men. Those films show none of his acting range. He could do so much better. He’s such a flamboyant actor and was really funny too.
When it comes to the music part of the story, the musical numbers where are interesting and were all showstoppers. Simply irresistible they were. The opening number “Love’s Fist Kiss” in the cartoon world really takes us back to those times when Disney wasn’t hypnotized by the power of Pixar and CGI. The “Happy Working Song” number was very cute and charming, while “So Close” gave us such a romantic feeling. Songwriters Alan Menken and Stephen Swartz really did a great job. Kudos! The score by Menken was fantastic. The biggest and best musical number was “That’s How You Know”. The mix of new contemporary type music and “princess” type music really appealed to the audience. It was so fascinating; from Amy Adam’s cool voice to the dancers and staging. Ahhh, perfecto.
Overall, I enjoyed the movie. Maybe a little too much, but I really enjoyed it. It was a scrumptious treat and deserves all the recognition I give it. Amy Adams is a star. A star which gives a terrific performance that shouldn’t be ignored at all this award season. “Enchanted” is really very much so what the title indicates: Enchanted.
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