Slight but quite amusing

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2008)

Not a great movie, but a delightful one. It's nice to see Disney playing with their own formula, even if it is with kids' gloves. So many other films and TV series have ripped it apart quite meanly, but few have done it as well and as poignantly. Enchanted still wants to rely in the happily-ever-after thing in the end, but at least they acknowledge the real world here. The lead actor plays a divorce attorney, for instance. He's a single father, and for the longest time I was expecting the story of how he became a widower, but then it's revealed that his wife left him. And it's nice to see the traditional princess and damsel in distress, played by Amy Adams, become the hero during the climax. Adams is the main reason to watch. She's such a charmer. James Marsden is also quite funny as the prince who has come to rescue her, and Timothy Spall has a nice, hammy role similar to the one he also played in Sweeney Todd last year. And it's nice to see Susan Sarandon turn into a dragon. It's about time she revealed her true form to the world.