Enchanted Images
two character portraits for partially animated flick now online
(Source: www.circuitplanete.com)
I've been keeping half-an-eye on Disney's upcoming Enchanted for one big reason: this is Disney's first attempt to get back into cel animation after killing the division during the dying days of the Eisner regime. This has happened before: Disney shut it down after 1985's The Black Cauldron flopped, only to reverse that decision four years later.
However, unlike 1989 when The Little Mermaid ushered in Disney's "animated renaissance," Lasseter and Co. are taking it slow this time. Hence Enchanted's part cel-animation, part live-action concept.
Here's the plot: "The film follows the beautiful princess Giselle (Amy Adams) as she is banished by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn’t operate on a “happily ever after” basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who has come to her aid -- even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince (James Marsden) back home – she has to wonder: can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?"
Even a casual movie fan will notice a frightening similarity between Enchanted's plot and that of current bomb Happily N'Ever After. On the plus side, the animation looks intriguing: a mix of Disney's classic rotoscoped style and the more rounded look prevalent in more recent flicks like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. So I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude on this one. Check out the two images from the flick over here.
Enchanted opens November 21st.
