Enchanted

On Tuesday, December 18, 2007, I went to see the movie Enchanted. This was a movie by Disney, and it's a fairy tale, but with modern adaptations.

First of all this, movie is a mixture of both animated features, and real-life acting and special effects. And also about a clash of two worlds, an adult world, a world of reality, and a children's world, a world of fantasy.

The story starts off with a very typical Disney scene, where there's some girl in the forest and she's got her animal friends to help her put together the statue of her prince. And unfortunately, she had everything, except something for the lips. And this launches into a song about how important a true love's kiss is. And of course, at this very moment, the prince of the country is out troll hunting, and overhears the song. Of course, the evil queen is allowing his son to do all this fun stuff, because that way, she can be queen for a long long time. She sees any princess whom her son meets as a threat to her throne. And so, à la Disney, these two fall in love, and it starts off the story.

The princess to be is named Giselle, and when she's off to get married to her prince, she gets stopped by an old woman, who is the queen in disguise, and Gisele makes a wish in the well. However, the old woman pushes her into the well, and sends her to a place where "There is no happily ever after" (aka New York). This starts off a whole chase for the princess in New York.

This movie has jokes both for children and for adults... This is one of the few Disney movies that does this... Granted of course, there are Disney films that do this, but not very many. As well, there were a few big names in this movie, and I didn't recognize some of them until the end of the film. For example, the evil queen was played (and voiced) by Susan Sarandon. The prince was played (and voiced) by James Marsden. The other lead male character - Robert Philip, was Patrick Dempsey, who is known as Dr. McDreamy on Grey's Anatomy.

I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but this movie was definitely worth the time, and it is highly entertaining. I laughed at so many things that I think people in the theatre was starting to get annoyed.

And besides, Patrick Dempsey on the big screen... Who wouldn't go see this movie? Haha