uh huh her ([info]laurgasm) wrote,
@ 2007-12-11 21:32:00
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Entry tags:love, reviews

Enchanted



I just saw Enchanted with my parents this evening and despite it being a romantic movie, I left the theater feeling teh warm and fuzz of love. Brilliant storytelling, wonderful acting (James Marsden owns my panties), GORGEOUS costumes, very subtle and clever comedy. I was laughing so hard and so loudly that my mom, worried that an irate moviegoer would empty his/her popcorn bag on my head, had to elbow me in the ribs several times to make me shut up.

The movie made me realize two things about myself and life:

1) I'm a lot more like Giselle than I'd like to admit.

2) If growing up means losing your ability to be spontaneous and fun, and if adults really are incapable of loving whole-heartedly and without irony, then please...let me stay twelve years old forever. And if I can't find anyone who's as idealistic about romantic love as I am, then let me remain single and bear babies from random sperm donors. No dry, dull, boring grown-up men for me! But hey, no emotionally fucked-up boys allowed either. :P

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[info]psychoshoujo
2007-12-11 03:20 pm UTC (link)
And like all disney movies - they lived happily ever after, with merchandising! :D glad ya enjoyed!!

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[info]laurgasm
2007-12-12 08:37 am UTC (link)
Haha apparently they didn't push through with making the Giselle Barbie cos they'd be paying lifetime royalties to Amy Adams. Damn. I'd actually buy one, just because I love the movie that much. XD

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Is gushing, is slightly incoherent, but is most inclined to agree anyhows.
[info]dadomz
2007-12-11 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Lol.

I'm more inclined to say Patrick Dempsey--only because I think James Marsden is TEH gay.

You know, this movie actually brought me back to my childhood--back then, I was just plain contented rooting for the princess to wind up with her one true love (but you know, once you hit the growth spurt, you suddenly realize that men are dicks and that clearly, women are better) without any preconceived notions of how the real world worked.

Watching Enchanted made me feel that way again--the giddy, school-girl hoping the heroine would end up with the prince that best suits her (and actually overlooking the possibility of Robert and Edward hooking up) and yes, despite their attempt at an angsty plotline, they never quite deviated from the formula--but don't get me wrong, it's how they played around with the formula that made the movie quite wholesome and well, human-esque?

So yes, I loved it but I think watching it once is enough for me--in hopes that I get to preserve the excellent movie experience I had.

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[info]laurgasm
2007-12-12 08:47 am UTC (link)
True true. Lately all I've been hearing are stories of friends cheating on their boyfriends/girlfriends/wives/husbands. Not to mention that every guy I've been interested in turned out to be a dick or just plain old uninterested. XD I know it's just a movie and all but Enchanted restored my faith in happy endings and my idealistic approach to love. Even if the real world works differently, I don't ever want to grow up and let reality get to me and turn me into a jaded adult. I think that's the most important thing I picked up from the movie. :)

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[info]bluelead
2007-12-12 01:20 am UTC (link)
YOU loved this movie? Well, not to cast any doubts on your character but, you liked it? Geez, that makes me reconsider seeing this movie. It came off as really baduy, now people are telling me it's really nice. I guess that's the adult slowly working itself into my thinking, not wanting to be "suckered" into something that might "make me feel bobo."

If growing up means losing your ability to be spontaneous and fun, and if adults really are incapable of loving whole-heartedly and without irony, then please...let me stay twelve years old forever.

I feel so depressed every time I hear that bit about adults. Yeah, I really don't like it either. Why must we grow up so walled-in and hesitant? I for one play to stay a child-at-heart all my life. Of course, that doesn't mean I have to be immature. I just wanna be a big kid!

Lauren, I'd like to recommend a song to you. I think you'd like it, because the lyrics are really about denying the evils of growing up, sang in a hopeful, and not angsty way - "Good Lives", by Eve 6

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[info]laurgasm
2007-12-12 08:52 am UTC (link)
YOU loved this movie?

Lolz wtfux is that supposed to mean? I may be a little strange, but I'm a mushmellow deep down, just like any other girl. But don't tell anyone that. :P

I know what you mean about wanting to stay a big kid. I'm not going to ditch my responsibilities, but at the same time I don't want the pressures of the real world to get to me. So what if people expect you to spend most of your life slaving away in an office, working a job you hate? So what if people want you to act dry, dull, and adult-ey? That's not what I want for myself. I've been through a lot and at this point I really should be jaded and all, but being a jaded grown-up is no good cos you fail to see the beauty in life and in people. Bleh I'm going completely off-tangent here lol.

Watch eeeeet! And I'll check out that song you told me about. :D

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