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very cool music video for the film’s theme song “Ever Ever After” by Carrie Underwood, then mostly covers the creation of the musical number scenes “Happy Working Song” and “That’s How You Know”, plus the CGI-laden climax.
There are also six deleted scenes, featuring introductions by director Kevin Lima, as well as a blooper reel, which both are mildly interesting curiosities. Rounding off the special features is the featurette “Pip’s Predicament: A Pop-Up Story Adventure”, which is a cute little side story which will particularly delight younger viewers.
All in all, despite similar fare like the very urban and vulgar, but hilarious Coming to America and the crude Shrek movies before it, Enchanted manages to be an equally spot-on spoof/pastiche of the Disney fairy tale archetype. However, it also manages to be a genuinely sweet post-modern fairy tale cleverly put within the fairly limiting bounds of the cynical and cliché romantic comedy genre, creating undoubtedly one of the most delightful and unique Disney films of any kind to emerge in a long time. Fans of Disney fairy tale films young and old will be instantly reminded of why they enjoy many of the best of these films in the first place.
Movie Grade: A-
DVD Features Grade: A-
Overall Grade: A-
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