This whimsical postmodern Disney offering marks a return to the bogus 'fish out of water' cycle, cemented in hammy 80s comedies like Splash!, Earth Girls Are Easy, Crocodile Dundee and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and 90s sequels Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Babe: Pig In The City.
In all those films, indigenous, naive characters are taken out of their usual environments and thrust into the (typically American) city for hokey comic effect. And so if you ever wanted to sadistically slap some sense into the sickly sweet, sugar-coated 'happy ever after' fairytale princess from Disney, and place her in the mean, competitive clutches of the 'real' world, then look no further than Disney's own Enchanted.
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Now that it's into its second week on top of the US weekend box office, pundits are starting to call Enchanted the best Disney movie for years – and that's fighting talk for Brother Bear fanatics everywhere. Both of them.
But Enchanted's second week on top of the US weekend box office probably hasn't got that much to with how brilliant it is, rather it's an indication of how crap all the new movies that came out on Friday are. For example, would you rather watch Enchanted or a rubbish-looking film about Jessica Alba having it off with some bloke in a bath? Why, Enchanted of cour… what? Wait. People are dumb.
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The heavyweights of cartoon/ live-action hybrids – Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, that thing with Paula Abdul and the chain-smoking hip-hop cat – must now all make room for Enchanted.
Disney's latest movie Enchanted is the number one movie at the US weekend box office. Oh, you know Enchanted – it's hardly as if you've been able to go more than ten seconds without seeing an Enchanted trailer, billboard or large cinema cardboard cut-out looming down at you lately, is it? But it's not just relentless promotion that's pushed Enchanted to the top of the weekend box office – Enchanted also teachers the viewer several profound socially-relevant lessons too, as shown in the Enchanted scenes where everyone mocks the midget and the chipmunk pulls a funny face. Or something.
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