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7.9 out of 10

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  • Starring: Amy Adams, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon
  • Summary: A classic Disney fairy tale collides with modern-day New York City in a story about a fairytale princess from the land of Andalasia who is thrust into the heart of New York City by an evil queen. Soon after her arrival, Princess Giselle begins to change her views on life and love after meeting a handsome lawyer. Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world? (Walt Disney)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    90
    It's the sort of buoyant, all-ages entertainment that Hollywood has been laboring to revive in recent years (most recently with Hairspray) but hasn't managed to get right until now, and the glue holding it all together is the incomparable Adams (an Oscar nominee for 2005's Junebug), who gives the kind of blissful screwball performance that seemed to go out of fashion after "I Love Lucy" left the airwaves.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    88
    There's a word for women like Giselle: Supercalifragilistic. Ditto her film, Enchanted.
  3. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Matthew Sorrento
    60
    The kids and adults can dig this one, though adults may be stricken with Disney deja vu by this point.

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  1. Positive: 55 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 65
  3. Negative: 7 out of 65
  1. Treblotski
    7
    Personally, I find it amusing that Disney makes fun of itself. I love the cheesy princess stories. I wish that there had been more animation, but it's entertaining either way. I also adore the singing, because it brings so much nostalgia into this movie, also making it a new kind, a 21st century kind of Disney classic.… Expand
    • 3 of 3 users said yes
  2. ChadS.
    5
    At the ball, Giselle(Amy Adams) is finally able to differentiate real love from storybook love when Robert(Patrick Dempsey) meets her gaze, and it's such a perfect moment, ironic, too, because a crystalline moment that pure and unadulterated is indeed storybook in nature. "Enchanted" enchants, finally. Before the swoon, however, this near-miss movie is hampered by lazy writing. "Enchanted" doesn't properly address the shock an animated character would experience upon entrance into the real world. For example, when Giselle falls from some scaffolding, the film fails to acknowledge that a cartoon figure would never experience physical pain in their animated realm. In Wim Wenders' "Faraway So Close"(the sequel to "Wings of Desire"), an angel sees his blood for the first time. "Enchanted" would be far better if Giselle was just a tad more existential, and inquistive about the differences between both worlds. The real world doesn't acknowledge the existence of animated films. When Prince Edward(James Marsden) uses the television remote, he never encounters the world of his previous incarnation as an animated figure. "Enchanted" doesn't want to get too complicated, which is an insult of sorts, because this film is obviously for young girls. There's also an insidious anti-feminist ideology at work, too. Rather than be a smart woman like Mata Hari, or a strong woman like Rosa Parks(from a book Robert gives Rachel(Morgan Phillip) on her birthday), the young girl is confronted with a princess as her primary role model. Well, I'll shut the hell up now. "Enchanted" is redeemed by an ultra-romantic ending.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. TristanC.
    3
    Realism is off, an animated world enters the real one, eventually you will intend to consider that the whole thing is animated through the amount of affects, designs, direction, I was never captured by this truly moving picture.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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