Funny, witty, brilliant, and just plain great.

Now that you know you must see it, the rest of this review is just details.

Enchanted starts off with your typical Disney cartoon fairy tale, complete with a handsome prince, budding princess that sings to animals as they do her chores, evil witch, all the usual. We see just eneough to get the idea and set up the plot, then the evil witch queen sends the Princess away to another wolrd... Ours.Now, seeing a fairy tale princess having to adjust to life in modern New York City and all that culture clash is amusing enough but add in the fact that she still has her faery tale powers; complete with singing animals to their chores (this being NYC, we're talking rats, pigeons, and cockroaches), making her own dresses out of curtains, and not only starting up a singing number but getting half of Central Park to join in. Now add in the Prince coming through to find her (along with a chipmunk, now mysteriously deprived of the ability to talk), then the Queen's henchman, and finally the Queen herself, and things just get progressively nuttier. Sure, the twist-ending you can see from three reels away, but it all still works

One small gripe, and this one directed to the costuming people. Towards the end the Princess is getting ready to attend a local ball, and so goes on a shopping and makeover trip. Now, pretty as she already is, and working wonders making her own dresses, you'd expect the usual heavenly-vision showing up at the ball, especially from the way the guy she's been with looks up to see the vision at the top of the stairs. But apparently the costume designer's idea of increased lovliness is a bit off from ours. She started with shiny red hair with great loose curls, light aery dresses, and a youthfull face. She ended up with enough layers of makeup to visibly age her by at least a dozen years, hair straightened out and lost of its shine, and wearing this horrendous fancied-up gunny sack of a dress that adds some odd pounds when viewed from the rear. whose idea was THAT?! fortunately after the ball she's back to the red curls and gossamer gowns. This doesn't detract from the movie any, but when you expect some stellar-looking entry and see a 22 year old sprite transformed into a 35 year old Type A looker, it's just a bit disappointing.

anyway, great movie. Almost... enchanted.