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90It'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.
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88There's a word for women like Giselle: Supercalifragilistic. Ditto her film, Enchanted.
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88Enchanted charmingly reworks all the old favorites while incorporating fresh twists of its own.
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83Enchanted is festooned with extravagant set pieces -- there's a great number in praise of romantic gestures, and a ballroom scene to make even grown-up girls swoon.
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83It may sound like faint praise to say that Enchanted is the movie of the year for smart and spirited 11-year-old girls. But a movie that genuinely respects that audience is not to be belittled.
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80Enchanted is as good as its name.
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80The film works its magic largely by sending up, at times with a wink, at times with a hard nudge, some of the very stereotypes that have long been this company's profitable stock in trade.
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80A full-blown musical that commutes between Disney's patented cartoon universe and the "real" world with cleverness and grace, this splashy production reminds one of nothing in the Disney canon so much as "Mary Poppins," not least due to the "star is born" aura that surrounds Amy Adams here, just as it did Julie Andrews 43 years ago.
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80Even if its most ironic humor will sail over the heads of very little ones, Enchanted is that rare comedy that will appeal to the whole family.
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80Disney goes meta in this witty, exuberant musical comedy whose parody and nostalgia serve a sweet and affecting romance.
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Though writer Bill Kelly's script takes extreme liberties with plot development and never really leaves you guessing about who'll get the girl, the jokes rarely miss and the result is a refreshingly sardonic fairy tale.
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75Not since Julie Andrews rode an umbrella to glory in Mary Poppins has Disney given us such a real-life doll (Amy Adams).
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75More important, it has a Disney willingness to allow fantasy into life, so New York seems to acquire a new playbook.
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75Through good scenes and derivative ones, Adams is disarming.
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75It is a testament to just how well Enchanted works that by the time a dragon is flying around New York City, you've forgotten all about the movie's high-concept humor and become invested in the plight of its characters instead.
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75While Enchanted wittily updates traditional tales, it is, in the end, as carefully calculated in its appeal as any movie ever was.
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The first half hour or so of Enchanted is brilliant.
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75Adams does offer quite a turn: Portraying a version of Disney's Snow White, she owns the character, down to every warble and twirl.
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75Special kudos to Adams, who nails the distinctive body language of Disney's spunky good girls and manages to make Giselle's relentless optimism seem charming rather than a sign of mental deficiency.
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75The very definition of charming.
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75The sight of Adams gliding and beaming and chirping in this movie - a self-mocking cartoon that transforms into an inspired live-action musical farce - is just about the happiest time I've had watching an actor do anything all year.
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75While this is certainly not the first motion picture to blend drawn creations with real life actors, no movie to date has approached it quite this way.
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75The movie isn't a send-up or a takedown of fairy tales -- it's a fairy tale.
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75The movie's big kick – what makes Enchanted live up to its title – is that the further Giselle progresses in New York, the more we feel like we've tumbled into a timeless Disney Neverland.
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75The whole movie swings broadly from slapstick and mock suspense to song. But the film develops a strong amorous undertow; Kelly's script neatly allows for all the potential couples to get the fate or comeuppance they deserve.
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70A sometimes clever, other times grating mix of live action and animation that plays tricks with levels of movie reality as the world of fairy-tale animation invades contemporary New York.
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70As the innocent and indomitably chirpy Giselle, Adams gives the great female comic performance of the year so far.
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67Adams' winning performance and the light touch director Kevin Lima (a veteran of animation and live action) brings to scenes not tasked with advancing the plot all suggest that, silly as they may look once you take it apart, irony-free, romantic fantasy--animated and otherwise--still has a place on the big screen.
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60The kids and adults can dig this one, though adults may be stricken with Disney deja vu by this point.
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60It's essentially, y'know, for kids, but the dedicated fairy tale fan will have tons of fun spotting all the references. Adams, meanwhile, gives one of the comedy performances of the year.
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Somewhere between conception and execution, what could have been so much smart, sharp fun turned decidedly pedestrian.
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58Given the possibilities it's not particularly inventive, but it is nice to see a comedy so affectionate with the conventions it spoofs.
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"Enchanted" is dumb and childish. That's why I loved it.
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