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| Enchanted (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Kevin Lima
Actors: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Rachel Covey
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  309 reviews
Sales Rank: 274
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 107
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.7
MPN: 5239103
UPC: 786936716061
EAN: 0786936716061
ASIN: B0011U52EC
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: This item is in Good condition with all original artwork and materials. VHS tapes are former video store rentals with store stickers. DVDs/Games occasionally may be former video store rentals.
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 Great for Mother and Daughter. (And just about anyone else) April 25, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Enchanted takes the concept of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Vista Series) by blending fantasy with reality. It starts as an old school animated fairy tale where Giselle meets her prince, but is soon vanquished to the real world by his evil step mother, where there are no happy endings, or are there?
Mothers watching this with their daughters will see a mix of classic fairytales from their childhoods such as Cinderella (Two-Disc Special Edition), Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc Platinum Edition), and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney Special Platinum Edition), with one song reminiscent ofThe Little Mermaid (Two-Disc Platinum Edition) and a touch of Pretty Woman (15th Anniversary Special Edition), just the shopping part. Enchanted is sure to bring different generations of film goers together to share stories of their own.
While the film pays homage to these classics it manages to be original and give it's own twist to these tales by empowering women and showing them as being more independent, all while putting a modern day spin on the fairytales of old. The result was enchanting.
I mention moms and daughters but the film can be enjoyed by anyone of any age, that's just the scenario that came to mind.
 Your Little Princesses are going to love this film November 21, 2007
14 out of 34 found this review helpful
In the Kingdom of Andalasia, an evil Queen reigned. Queen Nerissa did everything she could to keep her stepson Prince Edward from finding the woman of his dreams so she could remain Queen forever. For the most part, she was successful getting him to troll hunt.
Giselle also dwelt in Andalasia in an enchanted bower in a tree with her animal friends to serve her. She sang, sewed, and dreamed creating an image of her ideal man--the one who would come and give her the Kiss of True Love.
One day, Prince Edward heard Giselle's song and lo--they began to sing together. He gathered up Giselle and brought her to the castle where they would marry that very day.
As Giselle is making the final wedding preparations, an old hag comes to her and offers her a wedding day wish in a magical well. Giselle reluctantly accepts and as she makes her wish to live happily ever after, the hag (Queen Nerissa) pushes her down into the seemingly bottomless well.
Nerissa comments as Giselle is falling screaming into the abyss that she's sending her someplace where there is no happily ever after. That place turns out to be New York City.
Yes, our fair Giselle comes out of a manhole in the middle of New York City traffic. Fortunately, she does meet some kind people who help her--and she does find her Prince. While this isn't exactly a Fractured Fairy Tale, "Enchanted" is a delightful film for fairy tale lovers of all ages. My favorite character of the whole cast is the chipmunk.
A 'Different' Disney Film : May or May Not Work for Some February 26, 2008
13 out of 25 found this review helpful
Watching "Enchanted" reminded me of all the wonderful Disney movies I watched growing up - but there was this cloying, nagging feeling that something didn't quite work in this one. I think the problem was the last twenty minutes. The entire ballroom scene was way too 'staged' and no one seemed in the least bit 'dramatic' - which is weird because they spent the whole film being way too dramatic and hamming their lines every other minute. The last bits played out so weakly that any strengths of the film were automatically undermined, and it became a 3-Star movie in the process.
The first hour though, is superb. The opening animation is 'new and improved' Disney, while retaining an old-world charm. Of course, the lead actress is beautiful (but not too beautiful) and she has a squirelly-bug-eyed charm that is both goofy and infectious. Patrick Dempsey is of course as superb as ever, and James Marsden plays his Prince act with his trademark deadpan expressions (which actually work here). The songs however, didn't quite stand out. No wonder all three song nominations lost out at the Oscars. "How Will I Know", which they sing at the park stuck out as being out of tune and extremely irritating.
The standout scene is when Gisele looks out her NYC apartment window and sings out for the 'animals' to help her out. Rodents, cockroaches, bugs soon fill the house - and they actually help her do some work! The audience I saw this with giggled like little girls throughout this extended segment.
"Enchanted" might go down as a future Disney classic, and it certainly is innovative, but it lacked a certain something for me to give it four or five stars. At the end, and especially after the horrendously boring climax of the dragon-slaying (which ends very suddenly and tepidly), one is left with a sense of 'it could have been so much better'. Disney really pulled out the stops for this one, but it doesn't quite come together.
Three Stars.
A Fairly Fair(y) Tale January 21, 2008
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
WARNING: SPOILERS
The twist behind "Enchanted" is pretty catchy: what happens when the artificial sweetener of your average Disney-animated princess movie is flung tiara-first into The Real World? Giselle, the impossibly wide-eyed heroine of Andalasia, accomplishes all of her daily chores with the aid of helpful woodland creatures, and most of her woes are washed away just by singing a song. Stick her in present-day New York, though, and she's just another passing weirdo, although with better hair and skin.
Writer Bill Kelly has tried the fish-out-of-water scheme before (Blast From the Past) with mixed results. And his latest offering (Premonition) was an equally befuddled story about a woman who can never figure out what day she's living in. The guy has some intriguing ideas, I'll grant him that, but his execution needs serious work.
With "Enchanted," he's come closest to hitting his mark. The syrupy-silly sensibility of the movie is perfect for catering to kids, and although there are a few hide-behind-mom's-elbow moments, they're not really any worse than the things you might catch in Sleeping Beauty or Bambi. Giant trolls, evil sorceresses, and blood-thirsty dragons. Considering the bulk of the flick takes place in the Big Apple, it's not so disturbing to find out that at least three of the littler apples are poisoned.
The only real problem with the film is its inconsistency, its many pulled punches. Giselle is played with almost annoying perfection by Amy Adams; her princess-to-be is so floofy and precious that she is suitably grating, and at the start of the film, most of the people who meet her think she's four sheets to the wind. This includes Robert (Patrick Dempsey), the divorce lawyer who has the (mis?)fortune to save her from having to spend a night on the streets. There's a fantastic bit when Giselle awakens in the morning to Robert's sty of an apartment; in true Disney-land fashion, Giselle calls for help from New York's resident wildlife, and she cleans the place with a cadre of roaches, rats, and pigeons.
This stuff is spot on, but the spots start moving. As Giselle moves through the film, New York responds to her less and less like the "real world" of the tagline, and more and more like Disney's hoped-for version of a big, crazy town. Robert starts the movie suitably annoyed and weirded out by Giselle's crazy antics (she ruins his drapes, puts him on the outs with his girlfriend of five years, and disrupts his business practice), but -- with very little coaxing at all -- in the next scene he's glibly accepting the grand, spontaneous musical numbers and Giselle's unsettling ability to get random birds to do her bidding. Keep the musical numbers, by all means, and leave in her Dolittle panache, of course. That's half of the recipie, right? So where's the "real world" I was promised?
It fades away fast. The movie starts out as a cute, tongue-in-cheek self-satire of the Snow White formula, but then it quickly decays into a (still very) cute (but also blase) embrace of the very thing it was riffing on. The irony, after all, is the richest thing about the premise. By the time Giselle and Robert fall in love with each other (just because they're supposed to, it seems), the only ironic thing about the movie is that it apparantly just duped itself.
It's a great kid's flick, don't get me wrong, but it's not exactly what it wants to be, which is too bad, because its aspirations are pretty fun. Watching the honey-bright Adams sing to tub-scrubbing roaches is a treat in itself. I get the feeling, though, that at the end of the movie, if Giselle had sung her trademark "come hither" warble, she would've been greeted by cuddly bears and squeaky-voice fawns, instead of scuzzy rats and birds. It's too bad; without the scuzz, this is just another fairy tale.
 "It's like you escaped from a Hallmark card or something." January 22, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Leave your cynicism outside the theater and enjoy "Enchanted," starring the talented Amy Adams. She is captivating as Giselle, the lovely, wholesome, and naive young woman who is convinced that all she needs to make her life complete is her one true love. Alas, Prince Edward, aka "Prince Charming," has a rather unpleasant stepmother, Queen Narissa, played with raucous glee by Susan Sarandon. Narissa wants to thwart the lovers so that she can keep the throne for herself. She hatches a diabolical scheme in which she sends Giselle to a far-off place where innocent people are eaten for lunch--New York City.
"Enchanted" adheres to the conventions of the "fish out of water" genre, which was used successfully in such films as "Elf" and "Splash." Giselle emerges from a manhole wearing her tiara and an ornate wedding gown. Luckily for her, she runs into a kindhearted divorce lawyer, Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey), who is bewildered and bewitched by this strange creature. Besides having a ridiculously optimistic outlook on life and a sickeningly sweet disposition, Giselle has a way with animals (including rats, pigeons, and cockroaches--this is New York, after all) who help her clean house and run errands. Robert's daughter, Morgan, is soon smitten with Giselle; this sweet and pretty lady represents everything that a little girl dreams of in a mother. Robert's girlfriend, Nancy, who has a more down-to-earth and practical disposition than Giselle, is less than entranced by this interloper whom she senses may be a rival for Robert's affection.
The director, Kevin Lima, wisely encouraged his performers to play their parts straight, with nary a wink at the audience. Bill Kelly's witty screenplay pokes fun at such fairy tale cliches as the wicked stepmother with her arsenal of poisoned apples and the plastic, square-jawed prince gallantly wooing his fair damsel. Among the many amusing visuals: Giselle uses curtains and other fabrics that she finds in Robert's house to make cutesy, off-the-shoulder dresses; a chipmunk accompanies Giselle to New York and keeps popping up in odd locations to warn her of the danger that she's in; Giselle strolls in Central Park with Robert and everyone bursts out in merry song.
Amy Adams is adorable as she tries to adjust to an urban environment as well as the realities of modern romance. James Marsden is an appropriately vapid Prince Edward and Susan Sarandon camps it up as the vicious queen. The gorgeous Patrick Dempsey nicely evolves from a bitter realist to a man falling under the spell of a beautiful and soft-hearted woman. The music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz are charming, and the animation is effectively eye-catching. "Enchanted" is great fun. Kids, take your parents!
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