Nobody bet much on Nice to meet youthe musical comedy released in 2007 in which Amy Adams she played a princess from an animated world who “came” to New York and had to settle down. Adapt to reality.
Kevin Lima’s film – the director never made a feature film again – parodied and mocked the animated world of Disney. The script was funny, the performances were on the same page and the catchy songs of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (three of them Oscar nominated) did the rest.
Fifteen years have passed and that is likely to be the case Nice to meet you they haven’t aged Ma disenchantedpremiered this Friday directly streamed, for Disney+finds it difficult to (re)capture magic.
Perhaps there was no need to reword the fairy tale’s happy ending, which is what Disenchanted does. Giselle and Robert (Patrick Dempsey) live in New York, Morgan (now played by Gabriella Baldacchino: Rachel Covey later did Annie and disappeared) has grown up and is a rebellious teenager. Rebel in terms of a Disney movie.
He also has a little girl, and since “the castle is too small for them”, according to the squirrel Pip, the same one who narrated the beginning of Nice to meet youThey go to the suburbs. A sort of gated community more similar to what were the American dream homes of the 50s.
There, Giselle realizes, it seems for the first time, that she is Morgan’s stepmother. And, what’s worse, she magically becomes an evil stepmother – sometimes, just sometimes – like in Disney movies.
Nothing wrong with that, but what happens is that it’s not a new spin on caricature and fun. No.
Again Andalasia, the animated world, mixes with the real one, there will be a character in the town of Monrolasia who will transform into a queen dressed in black, Malvina (Maya Rudolph, from Women at War) and little ingenuity.
bad but good
It’s funny what the writers came up with, because the appeal of Nice to meet you it was that Giselle was just adorable. And here she turns into the opposite.
In other words, the lack of ingenuity in the plot threatens the result, regardless of the goodwill of the viewers who enjoyed it. Nice to meet you.
There was no need for a magic wand, and now there is one.
there is something Cinderella and of Snow White circling around, but as attacked. Director Adam Shankman (who has made two adaptations of major musicals, such as Hairspray Y Rock of the ages) It seems that he was trapped in a maze in which he could not find his way out.
Aside from Adams, who does his best to be likable even when he’s the bad guy, the rest of the returning cast (James Marsden as Prince Edward and Idina Menzel, who figured out they shouldn’t waste their talent as a singer — lend his voice to Elsa in frozen-and then yes, he sings) has supporting roles, more support than contribution, including Dempsey.
Filming that was done after the film was finished, after test screenings with mixed reactions, it was seen that they didn’t fit the story either.
The songs, always by the same authors as those of PocahontasThey repeat it about the power of love, they are cute, but not memorable or memorable.
Like the movie.
“disenchanted”
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Comedy. USA, 2022. Original title: “Disenchanted”. 122′, ATP L. From: Adam Shankman. With: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Gabriella Baldacchino, Maya Rudolph, Idina Menzel, James Marsden. Available in: Disney+.
Source: Clarin
