Disenchanted — Review Thread

Do you, though?

Right now the current movie on endless loop is Apple's Luck. Not sure what's so enticing about it but the kid can't get enough.

LOL.  You really shouldn't be allowing this.  That movie BLOWS.  Have some standards.

I just looked at Letterboxd and saw you gave it a solid one star.  That's incredible.  I've never given it a close look, usually I'm working when she's watching TV and the G rating was good enough for me.  No way it can be as bad as Ninja Turtles III or the Power Rangers Movie, my parents had to endure those in the theater with me.

I watched Ninja Turtles III for the first time near the start of the pandemic and I must say it didn't seem THAT bad. Mostly it just seemed like a kind of shitty kids movie, but nothing too wretched. Then again, I was pretty drunk.

Neverending I wanted the kid to watch something other than Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Blue Valentine so I turned on Enchanted. She was a big fan and I feel another spin is coming before the end of the weekend. I asked if she wanted to watch Disenchanted but she told me she didn't think I'd want to watch a movie with an unfuckable Amy Adams (her words). I even told her that PhantomKnight was a fan but she didn't care, she's four so she doesn't give a shit what he or Coop or franky or anyone here thinks.

I will not stand for this slander about me concerning a movie I haven’t even watched.

Disenchanted(12/17/2022)
Well here’s another movie watched for the silly and stubborn reason of insisting on getting every minute I can out of the month of Disney+ I paid for and this one was really misguided. This “sequel” to Enchanted seems to fit into what seems like a distressing trend at Disney: sequels that are made with streaming in mind and kind of feel like the cheapo direct-to-video sequels of old despite having been legitimized with most of the first movie’s original cast, and the fact that it was directed by uber-hack Adam Shankman kind of tells you their ambitions for this. The movie is set at least ten years after the events of the first film (though it’s taken fifteen years to make) and begins by the family formed at the end of that film moving from New York (an essential and defining setting in the first movie) to the suburbs in what sure seems like a move intended to cut costs on this. If not for the presence of Amy Adams and other legit stars I would almost suspect this was meant as a backdoor pilot for some sort of Disney Channel sitcom adaptation of the franchise, which might have been the better road to go down actually. Now, I suspect that, but I also suspect that the real problem here is that they took a script that was meant to be for a sequel made a couple years after the original and held onto it even though it’s been a decade and a half and a lot of the developments here don’t really line up with that, namely the fact that the Amy Adams character still seems bizarrely oblivious to the norms of her new home despite having lived there for a decade. Beyond that the Disney parody of the whole franchise just feels dated and played out. There have probably been more film parodies of pre-Renaissance Disney Princess movies at this point then there were actual pre-Renaissance Disney Princess movies and the cut production values just make this one not feel like a real movie at all. Complete waste of time for everyone involved, they should have left well enough alone.
* out of Five