Movie-Enchanted

This movie is overly cute and predictable, sometimes saccharine sweet. But ya know what? I liked it anyway.

Enchanted (2007) takes a twist on the old-fashioned Disney fairy tale. The animated princess to be is thrown into the real world by the evil stepmother, to prevent the marriage to her stepson. All this is done in animation, until the princess finds herself in New York City (as Amy Adams), with no rules of animation to help her. And the real world is a harsher place than her animated fairy kingdom.

One of the laughs I had is when she sees a business man who happens to be a midget, and grabs him. He gets angry, and she says "Hello Grumpy." That pisses him off more.

She gets help from Patrick Dempsey, who, with his 6 year old daughter, take mercy on this strange wandering woman, and take her in. She finds that some of her animated powers still work, as she calls on the creatures of the forest to help her clean the apartment. The forest creatures of New York though, are pigeons, rats, flys and cockroaches.

Eventually she is pursued by all the major characters of her animated world, her prince and the evil stepmother too. This all goes according to formula and you can see the ending coming a mile away. But sometimes that ending is OK. It is like comfort food, you know what you are getting, but it makes you feel good.

Enchanted is a nice sweet diversion. And that is not a bad thing.