Promising beginning, ruined ending

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2007)

Reading the reviews on this page I was surprised. Am I the only one who really thought that the movie plot was weak?
I saw the movie two days ago in New York, and without any expectations I entered the theater, waiting to be surprised. And I was indeed surprised, a hybrid fairytale, a mix between animation and real time movie. This is the most refreshing and original idea I have seen since Moulin Rouge.
Thinking back of my younger days, watching the Disney fairy tales, I was pleasantly pleased about the plot. At the beginning that is.
There is a sudden point withing the movie when the fairytale turns into a milked out, B-ranked feel good love comedy. The magic is lost, and I was suddenly not watching a original Disney fairytale anymore, but a bad love comedy. Everything got too real. This was when Giselle says to prince Edward that she wants to go on a date.
So what was the point in this movie? Because of the ending, Disney threw away the chance to create a masterpiece. After the ending my sister, who watched the movie with me said:
"It was really funny, but I'll probably never watch it again."
My words exactly. I am no movie-maker, but this movie had so much potential to be GREAT.
The fairytale should have remained a fairytale. This could have been achieved when Giselle and the prince learned something from the real life experience and go back to their fairytale world while the real humans learning something from their singing sunny philosophy. or something like that.
Now with this ending the prince is an idiot, Giselle is an equivalent of a naive rich girl who learns about the real world and Robert Philip is an old divorced lawyer who cheats on his fiancée.
So much for the magical elements.
I guess Disney was chasing two rabbits here: both the juvenile and the adult audience. They certainly did create an amusing film, but I was disappointed again by Disney's inability to keep a movie cohesive and interesting until the end.
It was at the most, funny from time to time.