Friday, October 31, 2014
Enchanted
I
finally had a chance to see Enchanted, Disney's 2007 movie about
a cartoon princess who through the usual evil stepmother intervention ends up
in our flesh-and-blood reality, dropped into New York City. Amusement and true
love ensue, including a production number in Central Park which shares some
moves with a Disneyland character parade, complete with calypso drummers and
somersaulting ConEd repairmen. Amy Adams (in an early role) plays the princess. Susan Sarandon as the real-life evil
stepmother is pretty funny. And the bit in which our princess summons the
woodland creatures to help clean the apartment by singing out the window is a
wonderful riff on a classic fairytale cartoon meme: this is New York, so rats,
pigeons, and cockroaches appear to help.
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