Los Angeles Times calls ‘Enchanted’ as good as its name

Stephen Schwartz, famed composer and lyricist who wrote the score for smash hit musical “Wicked,” has created five songs for Disney’s newest major motion picture, “Enchanted,” which hits theaters today. The film stars Amy Adams as princess Giselle, a perky and genuine combination of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, who has been exiled from her animated land by the wicked queen (Susan Sarandon) and who ends up running into trouble when she ends up in the big city and falls in love with another man who is dating, Nancy (“Wicked” star Idina Menzel who played Elphaba.) Adams, who nominated for an Oscar for her breakout role in the film “Junebug,” is crucial to the film in her role as Giselle, according to a review published Nov. 21 by the Los Angeles Times.
 
“Adams never overdoes the earnestness or even hints at condescending to the role, and it is impossible to think of ‘Enchanted’ without her,” Kevin Turan, LA Times movie critic, writes. “It is also difficult to imagine this film without the decades of Disney animated features that have come before it, appealing to audiences for generations because they’ve created an alternate universe that bans nasty reality from the premises.”

Giselle, who is banished from her land of Andalasia, ends up emerging from a manhole in downtown Manhattan. New York City is hardly the place for a princess and Giselle is overwhelmed by what she finds – but not for long because prince charming (James Marsden) emerges soon after from the very same manhole to rescue Adams character.

Get to a theater to see “Enchanted” soon, or if it’s a live performance you are looking for, be sure to check out Wicked tickets at Stubhub.com.

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