great for kids- which is all that matters I suppose

Rating: 6/10 (3 December 2007)

Enchanted is a movie that combines half animation and half real life- which was quite a neat concept striking many funny scenes: like when live rats and pigeons are helping Giselle make her dress and fix around the house (although I did not like numerous shots of cockroaches in the bathtub nor do I remember cockroaches ever helping Cindarella or Giselle in any animated Disney movie). At any rate the movie starts in animation with Giselle falling in love with her prince charming (Prince Edward) and after 5 minutes of knowing each other they are to be wed. However, Edward's evil stepmother Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) wants to remain on the throne and has other plans for Giselle  mainly dispatching of her in some way- in this case pushing her into a deep well that leads to present day New York. The scenes of Giselle in New York were quite funny  she barely survives the traffic, can't find anyone to help her and gets her tiara stolen by a homeless man. Eventually she is helped by Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his little daughter Morgan, and even though Robert is little freaked out by her appearance and mannerism, (and rightly so) he helps her around New York as well as to find her the prince charming (Edward) who also arrives to New York looking for Giselle. Now to add to the complication- Robert has a long time girlfriend who suspects Robert is cheating on her with wacky Giselle, Prince Edward thinks Robert is stealing Giselle from him, Evil Witch's helper is in town trying to poison Giselle, and as she is getting to know Robert Giselle realizes that there is more to a price charming than being valiant and heroic  chemistry is a big part of it.
I found Patrick Dempsey a bit dry (I could not shake off the McDreamy role), and Susan Surandon was practically useless (she has literally 5 minutes worth of dialogue). On the other hand Amy Adams was awesome as Giselle and she had most of the movie's memorable funny lines.