Movie: Enchanted

	Studio:	Walt Disney Pictures
	Release:	November 21, 2007
	Genre:	Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids/Family, Musical/Performing Arts, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Animation
	MPAA Rating:	PG for some scary images and mild innuendo.

In my opinion, this movie is something to take note of because of the following reasons:

1. It deals with animated characters becoming "real" ... which is different from movies that pulled "real" humans into cartoonworld or cartoon characters retaining their cartoonishness in the real world.
2. Disney spoofs its own classic animated movies. Previously, you'd find the spoofs in movies made by other studios like rival Dreamworks (Shrek).
3. The movie explores how the Disney formula (the innocent good guys, the singing, the helpful creatures) would actually hold in a place like New York (not very well).

In other words, Disney has just let loose in New York a cast of characters that would have no problem securing slots in a mental institution.

Amy Adams, who I last saw in "Wedding Date" (she made more movies after that but I haven't watched any of them) stars in Disney's "Enchanted". Already in her 30s, there are some scenes where the lines near her eyes already show. Nevertheless, she is still youthful-looking and very pretty. In this movie she plays Giselle, a character that incorporates all the known princesses of classic Disney animated movies.

Playing Prince Edward, which again incorporates within his character all the known princes of classic Disney animation, is James Marsden - who I loved more when he played Lois' husband in Superman than when he was in X-men.

The two were pretty hilarious ... Giselle is all sweet, kind, innocent, and annoyingly chirpy while Prince Edward is a heroic, nice but vain and arrogant prince ... who is blessed with cluelessness regarding his stepmother's wicked strain.

Rounding off the top three characters that live in the fairytale land of Andalasia is Queen Narissa, played by Susan Sarandon. She pulls off the sexy villainess ... but I bet Michelle Pfeiffer would have played it more wickedly... starting with the eyes.

The New Yorker who has stopped believing in fairy tales and who plays good Samaritan to Giselle is Robert, played by Patrick Dempsey. It's funny, but at the same time questionable, how Robert tolerates the lost girl who might have escaped from a mental institution. Not everyone would still be helpful after discovering that the girl you saved from the mean streets:

• cuts your mats, tablecloths and curtains to make clothes
• insists she is a princess and must wait for her prince who is looking for her
• invites animals into your home - even the kind most people consider pests like rats and cockroaches
• endangers your relationship with your girlfriend by her mere presence in your apartment; and
• has the embarrassing habit of bursting into song

I had to chuckle when Robert says "I don't sing" ... because exposure to the other Disney hit "High School Musical 2" made me remember the scene where sports guy Chad says "I don't dance" to drama geek Ryan.

What really stuns me is that Amy Adams and James Marsden actually did their own singing in this movie. Carrie Underwood merely sings the pop-flavored song played at the end of the movie. Before watching the movie, I thought Carrie sung the songs sang by Amy Adams' character. By the way, the music isn't bad either... the songs were written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.