Blog O’ Obscurity

Caution — this review will contain spoilers.

I probably have a bias since I know that the people from Pixar are in charge of coming up with ideas for Disney movies now and I know and love the Pixar work, but I felt Enchanted was a breath of fresh air from an all too stale studio.  For years, I’ve been willing to go along with the status quo since I enjoyed a good romantic flick as much as the next person but I’ve gotten tired of the story lines that have become overwhelmed by their desire to teach a lesson.  Yes, Disney, give me a story with a moral, but don’t shove it down my throat along with the fist you’re holding it in like “Pocahontas”.  And thank you but I do not need pole dancing in my children’s movies like in the “Hunchback of Notre Dame”.  As for Enchanted, I felt the story line was creative - not exactly new (and I think that was the idea) but definitely creative.  With this movie, Disney/Pixar pays homage to the golden years where a princess was a princess and the prince always got the girl by giving it a more modern and yet thoroughly satisfying spin.  In Enchanted, Gisel is forced out of her animated reality into modern day New York where she is initially pummeled by the hustle and bustle normal today but unheard of in her world.  Robert, our hero but NOT the prince, happens upon her with his daughter and is pulled into her dilemma.  Of course fun ensues and, for what I think may be the first time ever in a Disney movie, the damsel in distress neither stands idly by while her beau gets killed by the bad guy nor attempts rescue in high heels.  I’m especially happy about the no high heels part.  I felt this was a lovely movie, both creative and reminicent of old Disney movies.  Robert is a bit too cynical for me but in words only - his actions are much less cynical than he makes himself out to be.

As I mentioned in a previous post, it seems like every movie I see has someone in it that was also in a Harry Potter Movie.  This is no exception.  The person who plays Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter plays Nathaniel in this movie.

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