| Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
| not so enchanted afterall |
'Enchanted' started off interestingly, progressed hilariously and ended incredulously. While it is a funny movie for everyone to (hopefully) enjoy, I personally found it pretentious and severely unrealistic. Though admittedly, the first half of the show wasn't too bad, and a number of scenes were just hilarious, but the emergence of cliche story twists and a freaking dragon near the end just killed the movie for me. I must say that I find such illogical, overly perfect/happy endings highly distasteful. But, if such things are your kind of thing, then please, go ahead and indulge in an overdose of mind-numbing sweetness.
I must however, say that the actors were quite good in the movie. I think it takes amazing guts and (maybe not so much) skill to portray characters that are so over-the-top and quite literally, out of this world: kudos must be given to the actress, Amy Adams, who played the annoyingly innocent, cutesy Princess and the actor James Marsden who played the annoyingly stupid, himbo Prince. They were so annoying in their respective roles that it actually made them ironically, so darn good.
Though sadly, the same cannot be said about Patrick Dempsey's performance as the cynical lawyer Robert who ends up falling in love with that silly Princess - he was just a more jaded, subdued form of McDreamy, nothing special, nothing good (all in all, an uninspiring, safe performance). Half the time, I was hoping Meredith would just turn up and slap the Princess for attempting to snatch Derek away from her - and someone to pull the backdrop off and woalah! - we are instantly transported from New York city to the beloved corridors of Seattle Grace, in the midst of a Grey's Anatomy movie!
It is a matter of personal opinion, that the movie would have been moderately good if the ending wasn't so damn unrealistic. I'm just extremely miffed by the appearance of a great big ugly dragon at the end of the movie, what's more, it was one which COULDN'T fly and had plunged to its death! Seriously? A dragon that can't fly? Technically, that's not a Dragon but a Wyrm. Which explains its hideousness and utter stupidity. And don't even get me started on how fake that silly creature looked. Preposterous!
That said, the songs are infectious. I can see myself irritating people with a rousing chorus of 'I AM LOOKING FOR A TRUE LOVE'S KISSSSSSSS!'Labels: movie |
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