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Movie Review: "Enchanted" Pretty Much Sucks, Except for Amy Adams, Who Is a Truly Gifted Actress

November 26, 2007

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20071126_adams_320x240.jpgWhat with all the shopping tourists and the fact that we're all much fatter than we were on Wednesday, the idea of going anywhere in Manhattan this past weekend was pretty much out of the question. So, we at OUTzone fled to Brooklyn and hid out at the movies. Which was fine until we decided, on a delirious whim, to see "Enchanted."

Here's the thing, the first forty-five minutes are strangely compelling, and almost a little forward thinking. Challenging all those Princess notions, celebrating the idea that New York City is sometimes a magical movie-musical – those parts were great. And then there's a pointless gay joke, where the Prince is leered at by a large guy in biker garb in an Upper West Side apartment, and everyone in the audience goes, "ew…" and things sorta take a turn from there.

"Ya see that kids? That's a homosexual. They dress up like bikers in their lonely little homes, and like to do it to each other. I will laugh. And you can too."

How much longer is that gonna go on? The quick joke made, without advancing the plot or character development? We get it, we have no place in any film that children might see, unless we're about to make goo-goo eyes at James Marsden for a quick laugh.

But Amy Adams wasn't in that scene and all of the really stupid parts (there are plenty) are all of the scenes without her. When she's onscreen, it's very hard to look at anything else. She should teach some sort of master-class in how an actor must do their homework before they play any role. Somehow, she managed to roll all of those Princesses that our nieces are all clamboring to decorate their bedrooms with, into one actually pretty compelling character. It's all in the fingers, you see, and the way that all of her emotions take her by surprise.

Seriously – you should absolutely wait to see it on Netflix, and fast forward through any scene she's not in.

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