Enchanted stars Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey and Susan Sarandon in a fairly unusual take on fairy tales. While probably not worth multiple viewings, it is more than enjoyable enough to watch at least once for Disney poking fun at itself. Most noteworthy of all is Amy Adams, who plays Giselle, the princess who gets knocked out of the fairy tale world and into real-life New York City by her evil mother-in-law to-be, Queen Narissa (Sarandon). Adams plays Giselle's naive innocence with such solidness and charm it is unmistakably what carries the movie so successfully.
Setting Up the Story
After finding herself no longer animated and in present-day New York City, the gags abound, though most are cute enough not to seem already tired. Giselle isn't wandering long before a lawyer and his daughter (Patrick Dempsey, Rachel Covey) find her atop a billboard trying to gain entrance to a three-dimensional castle advert. Before long, Giselle is staying at Robert and Morgan's apartment and cutting up his drapery to make her dresses for each new day. She even brought her songs and animal-friend-making charms, cleaning the apartment in one of the film's better moments, the surreal "Happy Working Song." Naturally, things get awkward between Robert and his girlfriend Nancy, and things almost get unpleasant for Robert at his job when Giselle upsets his clients (who are getting a divorce), when they assume her pleas for them to stay together are a cheap ploy.