[This Romantic Comedies in the Time of Social Distance series suggests good rom-coms to watch at home during our current crisis. Some are directly apropos and some will take you away from it all, but none of them suck.]
This selection is both a "getaway" and a way to deal with one pragmatic current reality. What's a rom-com you can watch while stay-at-home with kids? Enchanted: Call me kinky, call me crazy, call me a sentimental tool of corporate capitalism, but to me, this Disney movie that's ostensibly for children is one of the most fun romantic comedies of the past two decades.
Amy Adams, as an animated Snow White-like fairyland princess who ends up in live-action Manhattan, is amazing; the musical numbers by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (including a delicious send-up of all such Disney musical numbers that features dancing vermin) are fabulous; the lack of nudge-wink overkill in Bill Kelly's witty script is admirable; and the incidental perks - including an apt wicked witch turn by Susan Sarandon and wry narration by Julie Andrews - confirm one's suspicion that in fact, this is a made-for-adults movie that's slyly wrapped in kiddie-appeal.
So let you and your little ones be transported by this tale of a princess, sprung from a realm that's "just beyond the Meadows of Joy and the Valley of Contentment" who finds a pre-pandemic New York City to be ultimately just as magical.
A parody of Disney with the truculent Amy Adams, ENCHANTED is a fresh, irreverent and very entertaining musical tale for both children and adults.
Posted by: Stephane Guero | April 30, 2020 at 03:32 AM