I love Disney movies, really, I do. Lion King and Aladdin are amazing, and I was hoping with Enchanted we might get a bit of that same greatness. I wasn't asking for Enchanted to be as good as Disney's old animated movies- I was merely asking for something substantial.
And I didn't get it.
The thing with Enchanted is is that it is a brilliant idea, and when I began watching it I actually liked it. When Giselle leaves the animated world and comes to Manhattan the movie starts to become another clichéd nightmare.
Patrick Dempsey did not do well, in my opinion. He was too old for Amy Adams and I did not believe his acting at all. Amy Adams, while doing fantastic, was not given a good enough script to work with- same with James Marsden.
I am aware that it's a children's movie and it deserves to have a fairytale ending, but the thing that irked me the most was that this movie gave us a moral- Love takes time, love takes getting to know somebody - and then defy it ten minutes later. I was actually appalled with how it double-crossed its own expectations. Idina Menzel (Nancy, I think, in the movie) was with Robert for FIVE YEARS. Five years- there has to be substance there. Even if the child didn't like her (which was a half-hearted attempt to get the audience to do the same) the point was that Robert did. He had to have if he was with her for so long and proposed. How can he- who tells Giselle that it's not even thought of to marry within days- fall in love with Giselle in three or four days? She does nothing spectacular but yet there's TRUE LOVE. Ladies and gentlemen. To add salt to the wound (and to give us the false hope that every romance can end perfectly) Nancy marries the prince hours after she meets him! How a movie can be so inconsistent? The only reason I am giving this movie a 2/10 is because of the song "So Close" by Jon McLaughlin and James Marsden. I absolutely adore those elements of the movie, but unfortunately they are not enough to redeem the entire thing.
And I didn't get it.
The thing with Enchanted is is that it is a brilliant idea, and when I began watching it I actually liked it. When Giselle leaves the animated world and comes to Manhattan the movie starts to become another clichéd nightmare.
Patrick Dempsey did not do well, in my opinion. He was too old for Amy Adams and I did not believe his acting at all. Amy Adams, while doing fantastic, was not given a good enough script to work with- same with James Marsden.
I am aware that it's a children's movie and it deserves to have a fairytale ending, but the thing that irked me the most was that this movie gave us a moral- Love takes time, love takes getting to know somebody - and then defy it ten minutes later. I was actually appalled with how it double-crossed its own expectations. Idina Menzel (Nancy, I think, in the movie) was with Robert for FIVE YEARS. Five years- there has to be substance there. Even if the child didn't like her (which was a half-hearted attempt to get the audience to do the same) the point was that Robert did. He had to have if he was with her for so long and proposed. How can he- who tells Giselle that it's not even thought of to marry within days- fall in love with Giselle in three or four days? She does nothing spectacular but yet there's TRUE LOVE. Ladies and gentlemen. To add salt to the wound (and to give us the false hope that every romance can end perfectly) Nancy marries the prince hours after she meets him! How a movie can be so inconsistent? The only reason I am giving this movie a 2/10 is because of the song "So Close" by Jon McLaughlin and James Marsden. I absolutely adore those elements of the movie, but unfortunately they are not enough to redeem the entire thing.