Haven't we always wanted to see Disney meet real world?

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2013)

I think an irresistible film, who hasn't wondered how at some time or another how Disney characters might manage in the real world?
Great performance from Amy Adams who is very good as an innocent abroad, her cleaning up the house routine is just marvellous. My favourite character however is Prince Charming, his hunt for his bride is terrific, quite a daring scene where he goes from door to door questing for her and encounters a gay guy who eyes up the handsome man in tights at his door suggestively. Even better is when he knocks on the door of a bedraggled mother overwhelmed by her five kids who just sighs at him and says what we're all thinking, "Too late!". LOVE the musical numbers, if I was to have a superpower it would be that I'm able to make people perform elaborate song and dance numbers at will. Also nice to see that the female love rival who in times past would have been inevitably cast as some evil gold-digger is actually treated as a real human being and in the end get's a heck of a consolation prize in husband terms.
On the bad points I'm still a little confused as to what happened to Patrick Dempsey's ex-wife, did she die or just walk out? Timothy Spall and especially Susan Sarandon are sadly wasted, I'd have liked the Wicked Queen to decide she can't go back to her old kingdom so instead stays in New York and becomes a chat show host, or Mayor or Senator or something (Hilary Clinton?) I kept expecting a scene where the police haul everybody off to a mental asylum where they try to convince the psychiatrist to release them by telling them their true life story. Would also have been a funny idea if Amy Adam's character wandering the streets had encountered a group of streetwalkers who attempt to sign her up to their pimp but maybe that would be pushing the two-level humour a little too far.
All in all though, great film