Enchanted

Ever Ever After (Carrie Underwood)
"Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeve"

I don't know what the other cinema-goers were laughing at, but I know I was laughing - hard and out loud - at the cheesiness of the movie.

Enchanted is Disney's latest fairy tale (the title sure gives it away doesn't it?).

Not exactly boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love and live happily after...but you're 99% right anyway.

Giselle was supposed to marry Edward, the prince of Andalasia Kingdom. His evil stepmother (honestly, why are all stepmothers evil? Surely there are some kind loving ones around...) wasn't ready to give up her throne when Edward marries, so she sent away Giselle, this young lady who naively believed in ever after.

Where to?

Planet earth - a place where happily ever after doesn't exist.

So there she was in New York city, all alone and lost. But her lucky stars didn't let her despair for long, for a handsome man's daughter noticed her from the window of a taxi, and with her daddy's help, took home the damsel in distress.

6 year old Morgan was fascinated by Giselle, what with her over-enthusiastic mannerisms and speech, and of course, her pong-pong fairy tale dress, but Robert wasn't so impressed. I think he thinks what I would think too if I met Giselle on the streets.

A-huh. Psycho.

Talking about how she was cast away from her kingdom, and her fervent belief that her true heart's desire would come and save her. Come on young lady. Wake up.

The movie progressed and true enough, Edward did come to planet Earth to save her, but by then, she had already fallen for Robert, who (disgustingly) reciprocated.

Who did she end up with?

Let's just say had the ending been better, I might have contemplated bestowing more than 6 stars out of 10...

Sigh, it's Disney after all. They already bought me over with the "happily ever after" idea ever since my mother read me Cinderella, so why should this time be any different?

Except that I am now no longer a hopeful girl of 5 but a sceptical woman of 22...
Ok, on 2nd thought, I'll give it 7 out of 10. 1 extra star for the cute little girl who played Morgan, Carrie Underwood for lending her vocals to the uplifting soundtrack and that magically dreamy person who made "ever after" seemed believable, even if it was only for 1 hour and 46 mins.

Yup Carrie, storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do....