Saturday, December 22, 2007

Enchanted

Mixing animation and real characters, the movie is about a bunch of fairy tale characters traveling through time to a modern American city.
Giselle lives in Andulasia - the perfect fairy tale world, where love blooms by sharing heart songs and animals and birds talk to each other. On one such day, when she is singing around about her true love, she gets caught by a troll and rescued by Prince Edward. They fall in love and are about to marry, when his stepmother Queen Narissa, tricks Giselle to fall into a bottomless pit throwing her in the way of Robert in New York City. Robert is a divorce lawyer, living with his 6-year old daughter and is soon to be married to Nancy. He takes Giselle to their apartment for his daughter. The next morning, Giselle calls all kinds of animals and pests to their house to clean up their house. Unknown to Andulasia's customs, Robert tries to shoo everything away and in the process trips together with Giselle, right when Nancy steps into the house. Thinking the worst, Nancy leaves. Robert takes Giselle to take her back to where she came from. At work, his colleagues aren't able to find the place she came from. And she starts messing around with Robert's divorce clients. Losing his patience, he asks her to leave, but realises she is too innocent to make it by herself and ends up taking a walk along with her.
Right after Giselle, Edward follows her through, followed by Nathaniel, who is the Queen's henchman and also her pet - Pip - a squirrel. All of them are searching for Giselle. Nathan finds her first, while she is walking with Robert and offers her a poisoned apple, but she escapes from eating it, with a huge musical. She reconciles Nancy and Robert with a flower bouquet and tickets to a ball.
Nathan tries to poison her again, when Robert takes her on a date, but fails again. The Queen gets agitated and joins them at New York. Giselle and Robert realise they are falling in love. The next morning, Edward manages to find her. Edward agrees to a date with Giselle, on her request. Both the couples meet at the ball, when the Queen tries to offer Giselle the poisoned apple and succeeds. Seeing her dead, Edward tries to give her the true loves kiss before midnight, but fails and prompts Robert to give her one. It works and the Queen turns herself into a dragon and vows to kill Giselle, but Robert intervenes and gets seized by her. In the end, the Queen dies, Robert and Giselle unite, while Edward and Nancy return to Andulasia with Pip. Nathan remains behind becoming a famous personality writing his book.
An OK movie, but very predictable story line. The music was good and worth listening to and Dempsey was worth watching :P. Also part of the cast were Amy Adams, James Marsden (Cyclops from X-Men), Susan Sarandon and Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew from Harry Potter 3 and 4).

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