Enchanted by Kevin Lima (2007)
2 December 2007I had seen the trailer and had thought that this was a film that I did not want to see, but Kelly did, and with all the hype, and how well it is doing at the box office, I expected quite a bit, and was unfortunately disappointed. Sure it has it’s funny moments as you watch it, but this felt like a film that looks down it’s nose at it’s audience and hits them over it’s head, and only only aims at very young girls. Not impressive characters or writing, just not witty enough. Sure it has some very funny scenes, but they are still way too over the top, and didn’t get the actual disney feel, but comes off as a parody that didn’t really get what was so special about the original.
The film starts as as a much over the top Disney Animated film in the country of Andalasia, with a poor but happy women named Giselle (Amy Adams) who sings and talks with all the animals of the forest, and longs to find her prince charming. That prince is Prince Edward (James Marsden) whose step mother is Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) who uses her sevant Nathaniel (Tomothy Spall) to keep the prince busy fighting ogre’s in the like, so he will never meet a princess and never become king. Of course Giselle and Edward meet and instantly fall in love, and plan on marrying the next morning, so Gisselle and her friend Chipmunk Pip (Jeff Bennett) head the castle, but Giselle runs into an old hag who takes her to a magical waterfall, and pushes her in. Giselle falls and comes out as a human in the real world, along with Pip, who can no longer talk, though can gesture very well, they come out of a manhole into the real world of New York City. There she wanders around, trying to find her prince, until she runs into a divorce Lawyer named Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey) and his daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey). Robert wants to get her some help, but ends up taking this strange woman home, and letting her stay for a night. Meanwhile Edward heads to the real world, and Nathaniel follows to help the Queen who he loves.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Robert wants to get rid of Giselle, but realizes he can’t, as he is beginning to care about her, and she is helping him with his girlfriend Nancy (Idina Menzel) who he was planning on propose to, but who got pissed at him when she saw Giselle in a towel at Robert’s house.
Giselle can still call animals and uses them to clean the house, and can get them to help her, and starts a whole song and dance in the park (one of the best scenes in the film).
Eventually Giselle and Robert start to fall for each other, but then Edward shows up to take Giselle back home, but she doesn’t want to go back, she wants a date and to get to know him first. So they spend a day together, and then decide to go the ball that Robert and Nancy are going to, but the Queen has come to the real world to help Nathaniel to put her in eternal sleep.
Giselle and Robert dance at the ball, and are obviously in love, and the the Queen manages to put her into sleep, and almost gets away from them all with her, but Edward finds them. Edward tries kissing her to wake her with true loves kiss, but she doesn’t awaken, so Robert kisses her and wakes her, but the Queen turns into a dragon and grangs Robert and climbs the building and Gisselle has to climb and save him, which she manages to do. And Edward and Nancy hook up and get married back in Andalasia, and Robert and Giselle open a children’s clothing store, where she makes them princess clothes (there are running gags through the film of her cutting up the drapes or sheets to make dresses).
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Cute, but it could have been so much better!
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