![]() When Giselle summons her animal friends to clean up Robert’s high-rise apartment, what responds are New York wild life - flies, pigeons, rats and cockroaches, who cheerfully freshen up the place. The animation invasion produces two amusing sequences. Following Giselle down the well into the world of live action is Prince Edward, his duplicitous servant, Nathaniel (Timothy Spall), and Giselle’s chipmunk pal Pip, who loses his powers of speech in this new world. She eventually comes under the protection of Robert (Patrick Dempsey), a divorce attorney - no happy ever after indeed! - and his young daughter, Morgan (Rachel Covey), who is delighted to have a princess in the household. Popping through a manhole in Times Square, Giselle is utterly lost. The film starts out in an animated world of 1930s Disney, the world of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, where a pretty young girl named Giselle (a buoyant Amy Adams) lives in a forest, chats with chirpy animals and sings songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz while awaiting “true love’s kiss.” Prince Edward (James Marsden) delivers this kiss, just after rescuing Giselle from an ogre, and the two agree to wed the next day.īut the Prince’s wicked stepmother, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon, going full throttle), anxious not to lose her throne to this upstart, casts Giselle into a deep, deep well, thus banishing her to “a place where there is no happy ever after.” This turns out to be live-action Manhattan. Perhaps a Disney film can’t quite satirize the fantasy world on which so much of the Disney empire rests. animators of old could mix genres and play with reality in the space of a three-minute Looney Tunes short: One of the great existential moments in cinema occurs when Daffy Duck experiences a mental breakdown as his landscape and genre keep changing, thanks to a sadistic animator named Bugs Bunny. ![]() But the overwhelming default mode is youthful slapstick, so the movie may strain adults’ patience even as it tests the attention span of children with its 107-minute running time. The film from director Kevin Lima, who has worked in both formats (the animated “Tarzan” and live-action “102 Dalmatians”), has moments of hilarious inspiration. Actors Amy Adams (L) and Patrick Dempsey, stars of the film "Enchanted", pose at the film's premiere in Hollywood, California November 17, 2007.
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