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Saw this 2007 movie on TV last night. It was okay and funny in some parts, but for some reason it’s hard for me to feel “enchanted” by this movie. Maybe it’s because I’m not the type of person who likes the combination of cartoon and real life. It just seems too hard to believe. If I want to watch fairy tales, I’ll watch pure fairy tales movies.

I do appreciate the writer’s effort in trying to “change” a fairy tale character to be more real in terms of relationship (by teaching her to date and get to know the spouse first before “meeting a prince for a day and then get married the next day” and telling her that relationship is HARD WORK) and a real life character to believe in love more and to give love another chance (that even a-soon-to-be-divorced couple can find sparks in their love life again and cancel the divorce), but I don’t think I want to watch this movie again. Once is enough. That’s why I’ll only give this movie a 6.5 stars out of 10.

However, I think Amy Adams fits her character well as Giselle. At least I find her truly believable. I think the cutest character in the story is Pip, the chipmunk. I WISH he would come out more often HE HE HE HE…

The Story:

Giselle (Amy Adams) lives in a cartoon land and she sings about meeting the prince of her dreams, someone to love and to live with happily ever after. A troll comes into her house to eat her and Prince Edward (James Marsden) comes to the rescue. They agree to get married the next day, so the next day Giselle comes to the castle wearing a beautiful wedding gown and tiara. She makes dresses herself with the help of animals. However, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) doesn’t like it since she doesn’t want anyone to be a queen. She wants to stay as the queen, so she disguises herself as an old woman who tries to entice Giselle to come to a wishing waterfall. Then once she gets closer to the waterfall, Queen Narissa pushes her down so that she would come to earth as a living being, a place where “happily ever after” doesn’t exist.

The confused Giselle doesn’t know what to do. She has never seen a car in her entire life and she comes out of the gutter in the middle of a busy road. She tries to find the castle to get married to Prince Edward. Then Morgan Philip (Rachel Covey), the daughter of Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey) notices her and they bring her home since she’s soaking wet. They finally let her spend a night there and the next morning when she wakes up, Giselle sings and invites many animals to help her clean up Robert’s apartment.

Innocent Giselle makes Robert worried. He thinks that she is a crazy woman. She keeps talking about marrying Prince Edward and that he is coming to rescue her. Robert doesn’t believe that at all. Meanwhile, Giselle keeps on making new dresses from Robert’s curtains and carpets (this is hilarious!!!). Robert tries to put some sense into Giselle’s head by telling her that she can’t marry a person she doesn’t know, a person whom she has just met for a day. In real life, a couple needs to date and get to know each other first. So Robert teaches Giselle “the ways of the world”, whereas Giselle tries to make Robert believe in “giving love another chance”. One time Robert brings Giselle to his office (he’s a lawyer) and there Giselle manages to bring a couple back together, though they almost got divorced.

Trouble comes when Robert’s longtime girlfriend Nancy Tremaine (Idina Menzel) finds Giselle in Robert’s apartment (whereas she’s never been allowed to spend a night there yet), so Nancy is angry with him. Giselle helps Robert make up with Nancy by making a wreath out of fresh flowers and she sends two doves to send the wreath to Nancy. She has also secretly slips two tickets of a dance along with the wreath. Of course Nancy is very happy now and she forgives Robert.

True as her prediction, Prince Edward comes down to earth to find his true love along with Pip (a cartoon chipmunk who’s Giselle’s best friend, but in real world Pip can’t speak properly like in the cartoon land). Queen Narissa sends Nathaniel (Timothy Spall), who’s actually in love with the queen, to stop the prince from ever finding Giselle. She also gives him 3 poisoned apples to kill her.

Will Prince Edward be able to find Giselle? How will he find her in a big city like New York? Will there be a “happily ever after”? Expect some twists at the end!!!

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