Enchanted! (Spoiler!)

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2008)

In fairy stories and legends, to enchant someone or something means to put a magic spell on them. There is a movie whose name is "ENCHANTED". This movie tells about destiny and realistic love. This movie starts with Giselle's singing. In Andalasia, Giselle, who enjoys singing a song, has a beautiful mind. She hopes to meet a prince charming. One day, a dream comes true and she meets a prince. At that moment, they are supposed to marry. However, a wicked queen, who is a stepmother of a prince, worries that she will become a nothing after their marriage. She tricks Giselle and makes her fall down a well. Giselle turns into a human and comes to New York. Even though she asks a favor to other people because she doesn't know anything, nobody helps her. However, Robert and his daughter, Morgan, decide to help her and Giselle's New York life begins. Although this film borrows a lot from earlier Disney animations, it has a difference message than animation.
At first, they borrow many scenes from their animation so we can see many similar scenes from an opening. For example, in the first scene, Giselle sings a song seeing a prince that she made and dancing with an owl, rabbit and squirrel. It looks like "Sleeping Beauty." That a sleeping princess opens her eyes from a real kiss is from also "Sleeping Beauty." The glass shoes and to ring a bell at 12am are from "Cinderella". The poisoned apple is from "Snow white. When Giselle comes to Manhattan and she sees a dwarf. At that moment, she says "Grumpy!" because she thought he was one of 7 dwarfs in "Snow White." It is one of the funniest scenes to me. The scene that can be called a highlight is when Giselle sings a song in Central Park while boating. It looks like "The little Mermaid." As you can see, there are a lot of scenes from other animations. To people, who enjoyed Disney's animation in their childhood, it can evoke old memories. Also to find these scenes in this movie is interesting.
Second, when it comes to a story, this movie is different from their animation. In the beginning of this movie, Giselle falls in love with a prince at first sight in a tale. On the other hand, she falls in love with Robert by dating in real life. In a fairy tale, there is only one prince but it can't happen in reality. We can fall in love with many other people and we have to make a relationship by knowing each other. The interesting scene is when a prince finds the princess and he sings a song to her as an animation. In animation, a princess has to follow him singing a song but she doesn't do that in this movie. She even suggests a date to the prince. In fact, the real love of real life is what we make it. Destiny depends on our deeds and effort. In animations, princes usually save princesses and servants follow their queen at the end. While in the end of this movie, the princess rescues Robert and the servant leaves his queen. The princess in this movie is not like previous princesses who wait for a prince who can help her. In this movie, the weak are not weak people anymore. They become stronger than before. Through these scenes, they show right story to people who have a fantasy about a prince and destiny. We can learn that if we want something, we have to go for that.
To sum up, we can see a lot of scenes that come from animation and remember our childhood from this movie. Also the important thing is that we can make destiny like Giselle. We can make real love like a movie if we do our best. If we make an effort, we can live happily ever after like in the fairy tales.