Lovely clever movie with a great Amy Adams

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2017)

The movie's heroine, is Gisella, a Cinderella-like girl who lives in an enchanted land filled with talking animals and princes ready to save a damsel in distress.
Just before her wedding to her prince, Giselle is pushed to a place "without happy endings" by the evil stepmother. Enter an amazingly good Amy Adams as Giselle, ready to face filthy New York with optimism. Other characters follow her from the animated world to the "real' one and they are all equally amusing.
Thanks to James Marsden acting chops, Prince Edward is strangely endearing, with his vacuous smile and silly bravery. Pip the chipmunk is adorable and the baddies of the story are suitable despicable.
While Dempsey is suitable as the alternative love interest, Adams is really the heart and should of the movie. The way she moves her hands is impeccably artificial and strangely natural (for an animated character). Everything is perfect in her performance, right down to her arriving to the Kings and Queens ball in modern clothes.
This is definitely a feel-good, heartwarming movie with a clever plot brilliantly executed.