A Enchanted Tale Of Our Times

Rating: 10/10 (10 May 2010)

"Enchanted" is another great fairy tale about a princess that must be rescued by his charming prince. But the difference starts when we find out that this story begins in a sort of classic Disney cartoon and it evolves to a motion picture with real actors and placed in the current time, in New York City. This idea really works showing the contrasts of real life when many things go wrong versus fiction life where everything ends with a happy ending.
Giselle (Amy Adams) is the princess that wants to find his true love, the man who'll finish her love songs duet. And Edward (James Marsden) is a handsome knight that happens to be her true love in vice-versa. But the witch Queen (Susan Sarandon), also Edward's mother, fears that his place in the castle will be taken by the beautiful Giselle and so she pushes the poor princess into a dwell that led her to recent times, most precisely at 21st century, right in the middle of the Times Square.
Now Giselle's is totally lost in time and in the city but she insists to the other people that she needs to find a castle in order to get married with his prince. During one of those walks into the city she meets Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his daughter (Rachel Covey). He's gonna help her to find his way back home and of course find her prince. But there are more many complications on the way: Robert is getting married with Nancy (Idina Menzel) and Giselle's sudden appearance may ruin the 5 year engagement of the couple; a man loyal to the queen was sent to impeach that Giselle returns home, the funny and deadly Nathaniel (Timothy Spall, excellent), the Queen herself also appears to put her plans in the right direction and Edward seeks for her, to rescue her once again. The funny thing in this story is that she's a happy princess that always believes in happy and romantic endings, and Robert is a lawyer specialized in divorce, and he knows that in real life not always couples stay together. This kind of playful and paradox dynamic worked very well in this film.
Another great thing about "Enchanted" is the comparisons between the two worlds. Robert presents to Giselle all the differences of the real life but it's not a bureaucratic movie when the character finds many different things and starts to ask what everything's for (this happen only in a scene when Giselle is in the shower and she wants to know where the water comes from). The scenes and the dialogs about what is true love, and the reasons of why or not believe in happy endings and fairy tales are very well written and many times it's the best thing in the movie, working way better than the funniest scenes and the musical moments.
All actors are good here (most notably Amy Adams, James Marsden and Timothy Spall), there's comedy and romance, funny situations, well, it's a very entertaining family movie. And of course like in almost every Disney movie, there is a happy ending!