As the pandemic continues, I continue my weekly recommendation of a movie set in New York.
Tonight's offering: Enchanted (2007)
A Disney princess gets banished (by her evil prospective mother-in-law) to "a place where there are no happily ever afters" -- that is, New York. Once there she proceeds to turn a divorced attorney's life upside down.
Enchanted is kind of a stupid movie, but it's light entertainment. And it can, at times, be very entertaining -- especially when it focuses on the fish-out-of-water elements and leaves behind the hokey Disney storyline. The simple fact is that it's really a better movie than it has any right to be.
Blair reminded me that the first time we saw this movie was at the Ford Wyoming Drive-in Theater in Dearborn Michigan. It was part of a midnight double feature (with The Golden Compass), and we needed something to do before a really early flight.
You may want to watch it now -- they're working on a sequel, and you don't want to be lost in the storyline.
New Yorkiness Rating: 3 out of 4
Most of the movie is set in New York, and the city is effectively a member of the cast. The chaos of Times Square, the grittiness of the Bowery, and the crowds, the crowds, the crowds all serve to dicombobulate the princess. And these scenes are clearly real New York. That said, there's a way that the film seems like a fantasy version of New York, where Central park buskers join in song, and there's an unnerving joy to everything. Oh, and the geography is all screwed up.
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