2nd Enchanted Poster
Disney Film Stars Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Dempsey
Now that the summer animated season is winding down, the studios are beginning to push their mid-November animated product. Paramount is getting all Heavy Metal (the fantasy magazine, not the musical genre) with Beowulf, Jerry Seinfeld brings his comedy schtick to cartoons with DreamWorks’ Bee Movie, and Disney courts the date-movie crowd with the live-action/cel animation hybrid Enchanted.
Enter the first official one-sheet for this flick, courtesy of the good folks at Cinematical. The 'official' designation is key, since the Mouse House hadn’t officially sanctioned the ones I talked about back in March. And, for all intents and purposes, this new poster’s a good ‘un.
A single glance tells you what it’s all about. You have sparkly Princess Giselle (Talladega Nights’ Amy Adams, in a potentially star-making role) flanked by her suitors: dapper divorce lawyer Patrick Dempsey and debonair prince James Marsden.
Add a dragon sitting atop the moonlit Empire State Building, and evil queen Susan Sarandon looming overhead, and we have a fair idea of what this movie will be about. The tagline “The Real World and the Animated World Collide” also gives us another clue as to what’s happening here. Kudos to Disney’s marketing team for telling us so much in a single poster.
At first, the tale of Princess Giselle getting flung from animated Andalusia into live-action Manhattan seems to be standard fare from the studio that brought us such animated fairy tales as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and The Little Mermaid.
As you can see from the trailer, Kevin Lima and the Disney Animation crew appear to be hell-bent on spoofing the studio’s fairy tale heritage, with Adams serenading a pack of rats, Marsden shaking salt on the tasty scenery he’s about to chew, and Sarandon coming off like a cross between Sunset Boulevard’s Gloria Swanson and Cruella de Vil.
And, from what I’ve seen so far, Lima and writer Bill Kelly are hitting all the right notes in making this flick. Not exactly a Shrek retread, but an affectionate parody of Disney’s animated heritage. Will Sarandon’s character Queen Narissa eventually turn into the dragon, a la Sleeping Beauty? Possibly, but I’m willing to go along for the ride.
If this movie lives up to its promise, Enchanted may end up becoming a “chick flick” that won’t trip their dates’ gag reflexes. You can check out the full-size one-sheet over here.
Enchanted opens on the American Thanksgiving weekend.
Fun Fact: Enchanted co-star Idina Menzel is best known for originating two iconic roles on Broadway: lesbian performance artist Maureen Johnson in Jonathan Larson’s Rent, and the misunderstood witch Elphaba in Gregory Maguire’s Wicked. She is currently married to her Rent co-star Taye Diggs.
