: Enchanted
This had gotten good reviews and though the premise seemed interesting, it also seemed like an easy movie to screw up, but it turns out it’s really well handled. The concept is that an animated princess in a fairytale world gets transported to modern day live action New York City by the Wicked Witch. The princess is completely clueless, as everything in her world happens in a perfect fairytale fashion without all the complexities of real life. She ends up being rescued by a hardened divorce attorney who’s about to get married without any romance in it at all — and the princess, of course, shows him that there’s magic in living and the world isn’t all evil. It’s fun the way the movie blends the animated and live action worlds, but that’s just a gimmick — far better is the way the film plays with all the fairytale stereotypes and mixes tales into a delightfully bizarre conconction. Great fun. Not too serious, and the finale’s way over the top (literally), but still enjoyable. My favorite scene was the scene in the park where the princess starts to sing an improv and strangers in the park start joining in while the down-to-earth lawyer follows scratching his head in bewilderment and going, “Hey, how do they all know this song?” Hilarious, and one of my pet peeves about musicals.
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