The commercials do this movie no justice.

Rating: 9/10 (25 November 2007)

From the commercials, "Enchanted" looked like a typical, run of the mill family film. They show a princess coming into New York with hip hop music playing, and make it look like the movie is filled with jokes involving the princess mistaking people for Disney characters, and the princess singing and doing embarrassing things in public, in which she is told to stop. It's not like that at all. When (soon to be) Princess Giselle sings, New York starts singing with her. She's bringing her fantastical world to New York more than New York quieting her down.
After Giselle (Amy Adams) is saved by Prince Edward (James Marsden) from a troll, they are to be married. But Edward's wicked stepmother (Susan Sarandon) does not approve and throws Giselle into a seemingly bottomless well that leads straight to real life New York. Giselle meets Robert (Patrick Dempsey), a single working father, and learns about the real world, and gives the real world a reason to sing. Meanwhile, more cartoon characters go through the portal, and chaos ensues. One thing that really surprised me about "Enchanted" was that there was no contemporary music. From the advertisements, it looked like there would be hip hop and rap to portray New York, but all the music in the film was created for the film, including a few new songs, by the wonderful Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc.) The whole movie was really cute and sweet, but managed to not go overboard and how corny it was, which is often hard with kid's movies. The acting was good, as was the singing, and it was nice to see some traditional Disney animation, which hasn't been seen theatrically since 2004's "Home on the Range".
Overall, this was a well put together, fun movie, with a fantastic musical score. I thinks kids and adults alike will enjoy this one.
My rating: *** 1/2 out of ****. 100 mins. PG for mild violence.