Enchanted (no spoilers)
Just got back from Enchanted which was totally adorable.
Enchanted is a Disney movie about a typical animated Disney princess (Amy Adams) who, one the day of her wedding to True Love Prince Edward (James Marsden) is sent into the real world by Edward's Wicked Stepmother (Susan Sarandon). She ends up in the mysterious...New York City and her paths cross that of a dishy, doesn't-believe-in-love-any-more single dad, divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey). Hilarity, havoc and true love follow.
It was AWESOME. No wonder it's 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
I still can't truly get used to the fact that Patrick Dempsey is sexy (I keep thinking of his 1980s movies where he played a total dweeb) but the fact is his rumpled professional character is darn near irresistable here. Amy Adams is awesome, awesome, awesome. Why have I never seen her in anything before? Oh, and James Marsden? THUD. He has clearly made a career of playing a 'prince charming' type who loses the girl's heart to the hero of the movie (The Notebook, Superman Returns, even X-Men movies a little, though I am a total Cyclops/Jean shipper) and this is yet another one of those roles, but he is so funny and so goofily adorable here, that if Giselle doesn't want him, I do. Mmmmmmm....
This is probably the first American movie in years where I bought the romantic comedy (a genre that has pretty much been dead here for years). But it worked. I laughed and I sighed with equal gusto. Oh, and the scene at the ball? Pure kdrama awesomeness, girls and boys.
Anyways, this is super-great. Go watch.
Enchanted is a Disney movie about a typical animated Disney princess (Amy Adams) who, one the day of her wedding to True Love Prince Edward (James Marsden) is sent into the real world by Edward's Wicked Stepmother (Susan Sarandon). She ends up in the mysterious...New York City and her paths cross that of a dishy, doesn't-believe-in-love-any-more single dad, divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey). Hilarity, havoc and true love follow.
It was AWESOME. No wonder it's 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
I still can't truly get used to the fact that Patrick Dempsey is sexy (I keep thinking of his 1980s movies where he played a total dweeb) but the fact is his rumpled professional character is darn near irresistable here. Amy Adams is awesome, awesome, awesome. Why have I never seen her in anything before? Oh, and James Marsden? THUD. He has clearly made a career of playing a 'prince charming' type who loses the girl's heart to the hero of the movie (The Notebook, Superman Returns, even X-Men movies a little, though I am a total Cyclops/Jean shipper) and this is yet another one of those roles, but he is so funny and so goofily adorable here, that if Giselle doesn't want him, I do. Mmmmmmm....
This is probably the first American movie in years where I bought the romantic comedy (a genre that has pretty much been dead here for years). But it worked. I laughed and I sighed with equal gusto. Oh, and the scene at the ball? Pure kdrama awesomeness, girls and boys.
Anyways, this is super-great. Go watch.