After watching the movie Enchanted Friday afternoon, I went through and changed the entire theme as well as modify some of the pages. It took a day to finish, but I must say that I’m quite satisfied with the results. What do you think of the new layout? And for those of you keeping track, this is my second Disney themed layout for the blog.

While watching the movie, I noticed that I seemed to be laughing quite a bit more than anyone else. Not only that, but I was the only ‘kid’ my age, but hey, the movie was excellent.

The following rant will be a highly detailed overview of Enchanted. For those of you who don’t like spoilers, long rants, or get dizzy by the shear thought of someone analyzing a Disney film, then please do not read the rest. You were warned.

Before I do a break through of all the spoofs that I caught during one showing, I must applaud the great Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for teaming up once again and creating the songs that are so addicting. They capture the old, classic Disney with the silly song True Love’s Kiss, as well as the amazing 90’s revival Alan was a part of with the amazing song That’s How You Know. Choosing Alan Menken to compose the score was a smart choice, not only did he incorporate the catchy and irresistable music he’s most known for in The Little Mermaid, but it still had the essence of scores from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The animation department proved that they haven’t been slacking off while Pixar does all the work. In fact, I rather enjoyed the cute caricatures of the actors. The beginning opened with our heroine, Giselle, played by the amazing Amy Adams, trying to reconstruct the prince she saw in her dreams. This spoofs Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty because I’m sure everyone has heard of the cute little song, Once Upon A Dream. Giselle was even wearing a pink dress that almost echoed Aurora’s pink gown she wore returning to the castle on her birthday. The entirity of Prince Edward (James Marsden) coming in because he hears a beautiful maiden’s voice echos both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.

Come to think of it, most of the movie was spoofing Snow White more than any other movie. From the evil stepmother with wicked powers who turns herself into a hag all the way up through the dwarf jokes and until the end where she eats the poisoned apple and can’t wake up until ‘true love’s first kiss’. Forest animals seem to magnetized to Giselle’s sweet voice and later she and the animals sing a Happy Working Song (which is wonderfully humorous) to clean a repulsively dirty apartment. They even had a reference to a magic mirror.

The movie incorporates a lot of Cinderella spoofs as well. Instead of letting Giselle fall into a deep sleep until her true love’s first kiss, she has a time limit. The stroke of midnight to be exact. And where does this happen at? At a ball! Before she runs off to attempt to slay a dragon, she loses her plastic slipper, which of course is echoing that of Cinderella losing her glass slipper. Giselle has a knack for making her own clothes with the help of her animal friends, which one can be reminded of Cinderelly getting help from her mice friends to create her dress.

As far as Sleeping Beauty spoofs go, the main one that nobody can miss is the fact that the evil stepmother turns into a large dragon at the end. The dragon is unique in design, but I thought it also had a hint of Maleficent’s dragon. Even the look of the evil stepmother, Queen Narcissa (Susan Sarandon), had the large, pointed eyebrows and high eyeshadow of Maleficent.

Giselle’s character was absolutely cute. Her hair was long, flippy, and red, much like that of Ariel. She had the sweetness of the old classic Disney princesses (because the new ones know how to be angry) and the fashion taste of Belle. Prince Edward looked like the typical prince: wispy hair, gloves, a horse, a sword, and ridiculous medieval style clothing. However, what I love about him is the fact that he’s totally clueless. Most of the princes that Disney has portrayed have been strong, admirable, daring, and smart. Edward has his heart in the right place, he’s just a bit slow on the uptake. But what was probably the strongest thing he did, which showed a lot of character from him, was when he let Giselle go and let her be with Robert.

Overall, I’d have to say that as far as light hearted/romantic comedies go, this is by far my pick. I’m sure everyone of all ages would enjoy it, though if you know and can catch all the other references they’ve ingeniusly incorporated, it should be even funnier. This wonderful ode to Disney’s classic movies, is definitely a film worth seeing and may even become a classic.

Oh, one last note. As far as references to Beauty and the Beast go, there weren’t many. There was a scene in which Giselle was running through a field with her arms stretched out, which echoed Belle’s run when she was singing Belle (Reprise). If you pay close attention, in one scene there’s a little Belle statue in the background of Morgan’s room, I believe when Giselle returns. And there was a candelabra, but it was on top of a person’s head.