Modern Enchantment

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2011)

Enchanting—a word that will rightfully describe the entire movie. The movie's elements were good, from the cast, visual effects, soundtracks, and production. It brought dreamy fairy tales to modern/50%-possibility-to-happen-in-the-real-world fairy tales.
The sensation I felt seeing it for the first time last 2008 was never different every time I watch this movie. It still manages me to sing along to Giselle's songs, to cry in every dramatic scene, to get butterflies in my stomach, to laugh at all madness and to screech with insanity over the evil queen. Not to mention I watched this movie for a couple of times already. Indeed, an enchanting movie that will bring back your love for modernized fairy tales again and again.
Magic tricks and spells did not just remain in the pixelated screen but the magic struck and traveled beyond our naked eyes. It struck the..heart. Values and lessons were also manifested. That made it extra fascinating to the audience. But there are also things that I disregard about this movie. Reality checks! It might be modernized fairytale but there are also scenes that are too much to believe in that it could happen in the real world. (Referring to the real world they manifested, not the whole movie itself as fantasy.) They could have made it more natural and real. Following the flow of a real modern day princess' life.
But I must say that this movie is one of the most heart warming movie of all time. It embraces all people from all ages. My mother, whose 52, can even belt out some lines of "How Does She Know." Thumbs up, Enchanted!