Enchanted: Critic Reviews

An inspired Disney fairy-tale mash-up.

Enchanted works its magic largely by sending up some of the very stereotypes that have long been Walt Disney Pictures' profitable stock in trade.

Overhyped family movie covered in a cellophane shrink-wrap of corporate Disney plastic-ness.

The film, anchored by an entrancing performance by Amy Adams and a strong ensemble cast, is cleverly written. The situations are funny, and the story feels effortlessly entertaining.

That rare comedy that will appeal to the whole family, as it indulges in all the dreams of fairy-tale romance while making a few 21st-century adjustments.

The sight of Adams gliding and beaming and chirping in this movie is just about the happiest time I've had watching an actor do anything all year.

Enchanted isn't something to get worked up over -- not only because it's so boring, but because it can't even be bothered to adhere to its own internal logic.

Cute and clever enough to enchant little girls -- not to mention their mothers.

A gently meta fairy tale that pokes fun at Disney's animated classics, just never too hard to hurt.

Enchanted isn't just a culture-clash fable, it's also a throwback to one of classic Hollywood's giddiest genres: the screwball comedy.

A heart-winning musical comedy that skips lightly and sprightly from the lily pads of hope to the manhole covers of actuality, if you see what I mean. I'm not sure I do.

[Amy Adams is] every Disney princess in one ebullient package.

Disney goes meta in this witty, exuberant musical comedy whose parody and nostalgia serve a sweet and affecting romance.

This charmer of a film runs a little long and is heavy on the CGI dragon. The real special effect is Adams, who sings the Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz songs with brio, complementing her vivacious performance.

Adams is daffy and delicious in a star-making role, and the script, direction and music are spot-on.

Enchanted is not a perfect movie ... But it is so thoroughly delightful when Adams is on screen you forgive its faults with a smile.

When it's funny, it's good. But when it takes a turn for the heartwarming, it feels more like a Disney knockoff than a send-up.

More than lives up to its title. A full-blown musical that commutes between Disney's patented cartoon universe and the real world with cleverness and grace, this splashy production reminds one of nothing in the Disney canon so much as Mary Poppins.

Enchanted is worth seeing for Adams, and children will adore the slapstick performers, including a prominently featured CGI chipmunk.

The best Disney fantasy-musical since Mary Poppins, a hilarious, dazzling send-up of the thing that made Disney what it is today fairy-tale princesses.

How refreshing it is that Enchanted gently makes fun of Disney tradition while upholding it at the same time. There are no cheap or vulgar jokes, and sentiment never turns to treacle.

Amy Adams delivers an iconic breakthrough performance in Kevin Lima's sophisticated and subversive Disney film.

Enchanted manages the trick of recasting sugar spun Disney fairy tales of old into a winning, modern-day comedy. Walt Disney would be impressed.

Disney can afford to poke fun at a lot of things about itself, and in Enchanted, it does exactly that, to largely charming effect.

Enchanted earns its label as a "family film" by virtue of its ability to captivate audience members both young and old.