ENCHANTED ***½

Directed by Kevin Lima, this Disney family film stars: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel, Rachel Covey, and Susan Sarandon. Rated PG for some scary images and mild innuendo, it is one hour and fifty-five minutes long.

Starting out in an animated fairytale, we meet a Princess (Adams) and her Prince Charming (Marsden). Their decision to immediately get married and live happily ever after upsets the Prince's mother (Sarandon) who pushes the Princess into a well that takes her to New York, where she becomes a real person in live action. The Prince soon follows and the Queen sends a toady (Spall) to give the Princess a poison apple in order to get rid of her permanently. Before the Prince can find her, the Princess meets a divorced lawyer (Dempsey), his daughter (Covey), and his girlfriend (Menzel). The course of true love takes a detour and the plot continues its predictable path.

This film has something for everyone. Cartoon fantasy, live action comedy, talking animals, musical numbers and a wicked stepmother as the villain. The pic never takes itself seriously and is a great deal of fun to watch. Young and teenaged girls will absolutely love this movie which means a lot of parents and dates will be brought to see it also. This is a solid holiday attraction for virtually everyone.