halsmith

What a fun and heartwarming movie. I'll not comment on the cast,plot, etc., the previous commenters have pretty well covered those areas very nicely. I'm a movie-making technology buff and am amazed at how well "Enchanted"'s film-makers held together a movie with at least ten different styles of movie-making like classic animation, live action, etc., etc. It's as if someone at the House of Mouse walked down a very long hall pulling people out of offices labelled "Classic Animation", "CGI", "Live Casting", "Disney on Broadway", etc. saying to them on the way "We're going to make a movie called "Enchanted" and I want you all to work on it and I want you all to do your best work". And then that person added: "And this is still Walt Disney's place and I don't want you to be bashful about letting this movie's viewers know Walt's still around here somewhere - and we're still damned proud of every movie he made".

The Wife's comment (after reading Hubby's "critique"): "I haven't shed so many tears of pure and innocent joy since I was seven years old. Long live the House of Mouse!"

What a fun movie. I'm a long time PHC listener and it was an absolute joy to see all the characters come to life. Meryl and Lily are great in this. They're photographed and made up in a way that really lets their age show - I suspect Robert Altman is one the few directors so trusted by cast that two divas would let themselves be seen that way on screen, warts and all. John C. Reilly and Woody Harrelson are having entirely to much fun as "Lefty and Dusty", Garrision is pretty much the Garrison I saw at a live PHC in OKC a few years ago. I did think Kevin Kline's "Guy Noir" is a bit too snarky - I read that George Clooney was originally slated to play him, George's personal magnetism would have helped a lot. All the radio show's regular musicians and much of the crew are in the movie and obviously very comfortable, another sign of Altman's direction at work. Even if you HATE the movie, hang in there until Woody and John C. sing "Bad Jokes", then you can leave.