Amy Adams is perfectly cast as the princess-to-be Giselle, who on her wedding day meets her soon to be stepmother, the evil Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon), who tosses her into a wishing well. The wishing well catapults her from the animated land of Andalasia, to the one place where you won’t live happily ever after, New York City. Here in the live-action world of Manhattan, Giselle learns the harsh reality of the modern world as waits for her Prince Edward (James Marsden) to come and rescue her.

So begins the story of Enchanted, a clever film that is surprisingly a fun family movie for everyone to enjoy. I’ve never been big on the musical genre as a whole but I couldn’t help but get absorbed into the world of Enchanted. The film has fun playing with this fish out of water premise and finds a way to make you almost yearn for the fairy tale idealism of the old musicals.

Along the way, there are so many fun references’ to Disney’s animated past; if you blink you might miss them. The movie opens up like almost every Disney animated movies have with a book and the immortal words, Once upon a time. In fact, the opening and ending animated sequences were done in the traditional cel animation style. Look for nods to Snow White, Cinderalla, The Little Mermaid, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast and even Sword in the Stone. The homage’s are endless and makes the hunt for references part of the fun.

Enchanted has arrive on the home market and is available on DVD or blu-ray. Both versions come with a nice variety of bonus features and there is even one extra exclusive to blu-ray. Both formats include the three featurettes focusing on the behind the scenes of three scenes. There are six deleted scenes introduced by the director, bloopers and a pop-up book adventure staring the chipmunk, Pip.

Exclusive to blu-ray, is a unique feature that is called The D-File. Instead of a standard commentary track, Enchanted has this feature that is an interactive trivia game. If you answer the questions correctly, the film stops and takes you to addition short clips that include the making of and the multitude of references in the movie. If you didn’t get them all right during the film, never fear, you can cheat and wait until the end and watch them one by one. The feature seems to be a little glitchy and slow but is perhaps a taste of what they can do with blu-ray technology.

It’s not easy to pull off a film like this today, but Disney has delivered a delightfully clever film for young and old. From the musical numbers, the songs and the clever little story, Disney has proven they can still make a modern day fairy tale.

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