Enchanted

Disney tries to take a new spin on the traditional happily-ever-after princess story by creating Enchanted (魔法奇缘). Giselle (Amy Adams) is about to be married to her true love Prince Edward (James Marsden) but everything goes wrong when the prince's stepmother Narissa (Susan Sarandon) pushes her into a magical well that sends her to New York City. There, she meets Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey), a divorce lawyer, who tries to help her return to Andalasia. Soon Edward comes through the well and into New York, followed by Pip the Chipmunk and Nathaniel (Timothy Spall), who is Narissa's henchman. Together, Giselle and Robert must work together to return Giselle to her world and to her prince.


Despite what the producers might tell you, Enchanted is hardly a twist of the classic Disney princess tale. Despite everything, the story still follows the same plot to the classics. The only difference is that it's set in New York instead of some fictional world (Andalasia, in this case). Everyone still has the stereotypical characteristics of all Disney characters. Giselle can still charm animals with her voice, and Prince Edward is still as blindly and (dumbly) heroic as ever. Pip the Chipmunk can still speak to some extent (Of course, chipmunks can talk, my dear). What's more is that the animated movements displayed on an actual person is extremely creepy and disgusting, if I might add. The animated parts were simple. It was obvious that not much time was spent on these parts. The only thing that might redeem this movie was that the animated animals were cuter than its other Disney predecessors. Other than that, I was disgusted by this movie and it was all I could do to not throw up throughout. An extreme disappointment after all that much advertising about "a Disney princess tale that does not follow its stereotypical plot".