The title says it all

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2008)

The title says it all really, and after seeing this enchanting fairy-tale you may feel enchanted yourself. Essentially, it's a chick-flick for little girls but so winning is Bill Kelly's script, so polished the direction of Kevin Lima and so completely engaging the performances of just about everybody that the film transcends all genre conventions. This is the year's smartest, sweetest comedy. (I can't think of a more affectionate parody; little girls will love it, for sure, but then so will their parents).
It begins in a cartoon wonderland straight out of "Snow White" and "The Sleeping Beauty" but this one has an ogre, (Shrek has a lot to answer for), and a heroine who's whiter than snow. There is also a handsome prince who is clearly in love with himself, (when asked if he likes himself he replies, 'What's there not to like?'), and a wicked queen voiced, and finally brought to life, superbly, by Susan Sarandon. The film takes off when Sarandon banishes our heroine, Giselle, to present day New York, ('where there are no happy endings'), and she materializes in the form of Amy Adams who is the kookiest and most lovable klutz the movies have given us in quite a while. The only mystery is why no Oscar nomination? Of course, in New York she meets her own Prince Charming in the shape of handsome divorce lawyer Patrick Dempsey but before the inevitable happy ending they have to contend with poison apples, an old hag, (Sarandon, naturally), and a dragon, (Sarandon again). I suppose you could call it post-modern but that might put you off. (We aren't talking Bruno Bettleheim here; this isn't "Into the Woods"). Best you just go with an open mind or better still, with an open heart. This is one movie that really is magical.