It’s not often that a movie comes along that cross references decades of culture (the movies we were raised on meets the violence our kids are often force-fed). Enchanted gives us both worlds from the eyes of a sappy-sweet princess who never stops believing what we were taught to believe: Someday our Prince will come. Based on the generic version of all Disney classics rolled into one, Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) is thrust through a manhole by the wicked Queen (Susan Sarandon) and comes up in a sewer called New York City. As her fairy tale world collides with the real one, her views of kindness, singing, and sappily ever after make for an almost “Borat” experience on a G rating scale. This is the funniest different movie you’ll see this year – certainly more entertaining than anything else. And it may just have you believing in love ever after or at the very least wondering if a fairy tale existence could survive in the real world. At least it seems to work that way for a cynical single parent (Patrick Dempsey) who spends his days as a divorce lawyer and spends his nights dancing and suddenly cavorting with the fairytale princess. A movie as enchanted as its name. And safe enough for the whole family. Four tiaras.
