Fresh
In Enchanted, even the vermin whistle while they work.
Craig Outhier, Orange County Register
Enchanted
The real world and the animated world collide.
2007 · 1h 47m · PG
Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Kevin Lima
Overview
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
Director and cast
- Kevin Lima Director
- Patrick Dempsey as Robert Philip
- Amy Adams as Giselle
- James Marsden as Prince Edward
- Timothy Spall as Nathaniel
- Rachel Covey as Morgan Philip
- Susan Sarandon as Queen Narissa
- Idina Menzel as Nancy Tremaine
- Julie Andrews as Narrator
- Jeff Bennett as Pip in Andalasia
- Kevin Lima as Pip in New York
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
By the time you are reading this, the ads will already be proclaiming that Enchanted is "enchanting," and for once they'll be spot on.
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
Like the Cinderella figure she plays in Disney's Enchanted, Amy Adams spreads a contagion of delight. The movie is great fun, but she's enchanting.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Fresh
Happily, the leads carry the day: James Marsden as a prince of grinning vanity, Susan Sarandon as the wicked stepmother, and, above all, Amy Adams, who, in the role of a would-be princess, finds true momentum, not just sappiness, in the farce of innocence.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
Though the film is full of allusions to the Disney canon, they are generally unobtrusive echoes rather than eager satires. This is a children's movie at which adults are also welcome, not a cartoon for grownups.
Christopher Orr, The New Republic
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