Enchanted is a 2007 Academy Award-nominated musical film, directed by Kevin Lima and produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Josephson Entertainment. It premiered on October 20, 2007 at the London Film Festival before it was released on November 21, 2007 in the United States. The film, both a homage to and a self-parody of conventional Disney animated features, blends live action filmmaking, traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, and makes numerous references to Disney’s past and future works. The plot focuses on Giselle, an archetypal Disney Princess who is forced from her 2D-animated world of Andalasia into real-life New York City.
The film heralds the return of traditional animation to a Disney feature film after the company’s decision to move entirely to computer animation in 2004. Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, who had written songs for previous Disney films, resumed their collaboration to produce Enchanted’s songs, with Menken also composing the film score.
Starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Timothy Spall, Rachel Covey and Susan Sarandon, the film was well-received critically and has garnered two nominations at the 65th Golden Globe Awards and three nominations at the 80th Academy Awards. The film also proved to be a commercial success, earning $100 million before the end of its sixth week at the domestic box office.
Giselle (Amy Adams) lives in the blissful animated world of Andalasia, where magical beings frolic freely, animals are talkative companions and musical interludes punctuate every interaction. She dreams of her true love and builds a statue to represent him from her dream with the help of her chipmunk friend Pip and other forest animals. She sings a rapturous song about finding her true love through true love’s kiss. Prince Edward (James Marsden), a handsome but dimwitted prince, hears her voice in the forest and rescues her from a troll. Giselle and Edward get engaged to be married the next day but her fate takes a turn for the worse on her wedding day when his stepmother, the villainous Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon), throws her through a magic portal to "a place where there is no happily ever after" in order to keep her stepson single and thus remain queen.
Giselle’s plunge into darkness lands her in the unforgiving live-action world of modern day New York City. As the cruelty of this new place begins to wear down her fairy-tale idealism, Giselle meets Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey), who takes her into his apartment despite believing that she is a little crazy and worrying about the safety of his young daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey). Robert is a divorce lawyer and does not believe in happily-ever-after and true love’s kiss. The next morning, he becomes aggravated when he and his daughter find Giselle has called rats and other vermin to clean their apartment and that she has constructed a dress using material cut from the curtains. Nancy (Idina Menzel), Robert’s soon-to-be-fiancée, walks in to find Giselle in a towel and leaves assuming the worst. Robert takes Giselle to his office and asks his secretary to find out where she came from, which proves unsuccessful. Giselle starts to sob when she finds out that his client and her husband are getting a divorce, thus bringing everybody down and causing Robert’s boss to angrily reprimand him. Robert takes Giselle, and they go outside the building to Central Park.
At the end of his patience, Robert gives Giselle some money and tells her to go find her prince. Giselle promptly gives the money to an old woman, which leaves Robert to shake his head in pity and join her. As they walk through Central Park, Robert and Giselle talk about their relationships. She spontaneously starts the musical production number "That’s How You Know" with everyone in the park performing with her while Robert protests that he never sings or dances. Giselle ends up sending Nancy a wreath of flowers carried by two white doves as an apology from Robert, along with tickets to the King and Queen’s Ball. Charmed, Nancy promptly accepts.
Meanwhile, Queen Narissa’s henchman Nathaniel (Timothy Spall) goes after Edward and Pip, who have journeyed to New York to save Giselle. They stop at a motel, where Nathaniel, after watching a movie that he finds reflects himself and his relationship with Narissa, sneaks out to give Giselle a poisoned apple, while Pip, unable to speak in this world, has a frustrating time alerting the Prince of the minion’s intentions. Nathaniel tries twice to poison Giselle, only to be stopped by Pip, and Narissa becomes infuriated. As Giselle stays another night in Robert’s apartment, Robert tells her he will help her because he does not believe Edward will show up. She yells at him, saying that Edward will, and becomes giddy when she finds out that she is experiencing anger for the first time. They both stare at each other for a moment and come close enough to kiss but Robert turns and bids her good night. Giselle falls into a chair, confused, realizing she is falling for him, and he does the same on his bed.
Edward finds Giselle the next morning and, at her insistence, they go on a date around New York. She suggests that they go to the King and Queen’s Ball that evening while Edward gets her to agree to return with him to Andalasia right after the ball. Giselle and Morgan go shopping with Robert’s emergency credit card for the perfect gown for the ball. In the meantime, Robert finds out that his client and her husband decided to not get divorced because Giselle reminded them about how much they loved each other and that they still do.
At the ball, located in the Woolworth Building, Nancy and Robert dance together wearing 18th century style costumes. Giselle and Edward arrive at the ball and Giselle and Robert see each other. Nancy is smitten by the unapologetically romantic Edward. The emcee tells everyone to switch partners for the next song so Nancy and Edward pair off and dance with each other. As Giselle and Robert dance to the song "So Close", Robert softly sings the lyrics to her. Giselle begins to finally realize that Robert is her true love. Nancy decides to cut in and continue dancing with Robert. Giselle and Edward prepare to return to Andalasia, and Giselle is visibly upset as they leave the ball. Edward leaves her by the elevators to get her wrap.
Suddenly Narissa appears as the old hag, the same disguise she used to push Giselle into the well in the first place. Seeing Giselle become distressed as she watches Nancy kiss Robert on the dance floor, Narissa offers her an apple that she says will make Giselle forget the whole experience. She takes a bite and collapses on the floor. Edward returns and Narissa claims Giselle fainted as Robert and Nancy run to her aid. A remorseful Nathaniel appears and confesses to all that she was poisoned, sadly, with his help. He restrains Narissa, who reveals that if the spell is not broken in a minute (before it is midnight), Giselle will die.
Edward tries to revive Giselle through a true love’s kiss but realizes that his kiss has failed because Robert is her true love. Robert immediately denies this but Nancy says that it is okay and tells him to kiss her before it’s too late. He does and Giselle wakes up. Narissa breaks free from Nathaniel, seizes Edward’s sword from him and then says a Latin incantation to transform into a dragon. She impales the sword into the dance floor as the partygoers panic. Narissa declares that she will have to kill them all. She plans to start with Giselle but Robert intervenes and is promptly seized. Narissa crashes through the wall and climbs to the top of the building with Robert in hand. Giselle grabs Edward’s sword from the dance floor and follows, leaving a slipper behind.
Giselle chases the Narissa-dragon up the building as Robert pleads for her to put him down. As the Narissa-dragon makes it to the top, Edward releases Pip to help Giselle. With help from Pip, the dragon falls from the roof, crashes onto its spire catching on fire and dissolves into glitter on the pavement. Giselle catches Robert just in time as he falls and they kiss on the roof.
Meanwhile, Edward puts the slipper on Nancy’s foot, and they go back to Andalasia and get married. Robert and Giselle open up a boutique, Andalasia Fashions, where they are assisted by both humans and animals. Nathaniel becomes a successful author in the modern world, writing a book entitled My Royal Pain (Overcoming the Evil Queen Inside Me) and signing autographs. Similarly, Pip becomes a bestselling author in Andalasia, writing a book called Silence Isn’t Golden. The last scene shows Giselle, Robert and Morgan playing together and living happily ever after as a family in his apartment. |
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