Enchanted is the story of princess Giselle (Amy Adams)
from the animated land of Andalusia. Giselle was banished
to the real world by evil Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon),
who fears her throne will be taken away by Giselle after
she marries her son prince, Edward (James Marsden). At her arrival to
the real world Giselle finds out that the “happily
ever after” is not real belief in the real world.
Yet Giselle with her sweet voice, lovely personality and
wonderful attitude instills in others a contagious fairy
tale feeling that anything is possible when you are driven
by the powerful feeling of love. But all this
doesn't happen until Giselle and her fellow wonderland
friends bring to the real world a picaresque chain of
events that slowly lead to an unexpected fairy tale
ending.This clever story
had the magical touch of Bill Kelly with his script and Kevin Lima,
which proofed to be the perfect combination for this
film. Lima's experience goes from directing Disney
classics films like “Tarzan”
and “102
Dalmatians” along with working as character designer in
films like “The
Little Mermaid” and others. As far as Bill
Kelly, it was beautiful to see how he was able to
pick up some of the most unforgettable scenes of the
world's well know princess and incorporate them into
Giselle's story. For example, from Snow White, we got the
helping animals that do chores around the house, from
Cinderella we relive the magic of the glass slipper, etc.
This movie not only gives us the opportunity to meet
Giselle and her story but to relieve every other Disney
princess that she represents. These two
professionals have provided a true Disney Classic
trademark to the film.
Giselle's character was
outstanding performed by Amy Adams, who gives audiences the
impression of watching a true animated princess in real
life throughout the entire film. The supporting cast was
also important and well selected Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall and Susan Sarandon completed the
formula for this clever story tale.
It was nice to see that
Kenny Lima went above of the traditional less than
90 minutes running time for this type of films,
preventing a rushed ending that would have destroyed
the magic of the film. The 107 minutes running time for
the film was enough to cover every single detail of a true
Fairy Tale. It is not surprise that this film has all the
ingredients to make this film this years Holiday movie,
with the potential of becoming a Disney
classic.
