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Enchanted

Enchanted stars Amy Adams as Giselle, a young woman who falls in love with Prince Edward (James Marsden) in the animated fairy tale world of Andalasia. Edward’s evil stepmother, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon), however, will stop at nothing to prevent Giselle and Edward from marrying, thus ensuring that Giselle can never take the throne from Narissa. The evil queen, who is also a powerful sorceress, sends Giselle to modern-day New York City, where the film becomes a live-action production. In New York, Giselle meets Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his young daughter, Morgan (Rachel Covey). Robert is a divorce attorney whose own wife left him and Morgan, and he is planning on proposing to his girlfriend of five years, Nancy (Idina Menzel), when Giselle comes into his life. Though Robert is confused by Giselle’s very bubbly personality and skeptical of her beliefs in true love and happy endings, he becomes drawn to her while she in turn becomes more grounded in the realities of love. Meanwhile, Prince Edward also goes to New York to find Giselle and take her back to Andalasia, accompanied by Pip, a chipmunk who can talk in the animated world of Andalasia, but not in real-life New York City. Queen Narissa sends her henchman, Nathaniel (Timothy Spall), to stop Edward from finding Giselle, and later has him try to get Giselle to take a bite from one of three poisoned apples she sends him. After Nathaniel fails at keeping Edward from finding Giselle and poisoning her with the apples, Narissa takes matters into her own hands and transports herself to New York. Adams’s performance as Giselle may be difficult to stomach at times, especially when she seems impossibly happy, but she otherwise does a good job in the role. Enchanted pokes fun at various animated fairy tale conventions by setting them in the real world, including having animals help with chores and characters breaking into song. Various references and parallels to classic Walt Disney movies are made, including Lady and the Tramp, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Special mention should also be made of the movie’s songs, which were written by Alan Menken (music) and Stephen Schwartz (lyrics), who previously worked together on Disney’s Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Written by: Jessica Chung

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