#disney's enchanted

[princess-posting]

if i had a nickel for everytime disney had an optimistic, idealistic female protagonist embark on a journey where she has to grow up and face the real world with a snarky, reluctant guy who's only forced to help her but comes to care about her very deeply, i'd have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot but its weird its happened thrice

[mask131]

On a much brighter and lighter topic!

I originally wanted to make this post on my side-blog about fairytales, but I'll do it here thanks to having a wider audience. Because I have not seen people talk about this when I think it should?

I want to talk about Disney's Enchanted and its sequel, Disenchanted.

So we all know that Enchanted is Disney's self-homage and parody of all the classical Disney fairytale movies. It is the quintessential boil down and humoristic summary of Snow-White, and Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty, and the Little Mermaid, and so forth and so on... It is all their tropes and archetypes and the like. That has been well established, well analyzed, well discussed upon.

But when it comes to Disenchanted, Enchanted's sequel, there is I think something people completely missed... Haven't you noticed that this movie had the quintessential feel of a "Disney sequel"?

Literaly and figuratively. They pull tropes and ideas and concepts from all the Disney sequels, from The Little Mermaid 2 to Cinderella 3. And by extension, when you look at Disenchanted as a whole, you actually get this very unique and distinct feeling of a Disney sequel. This feeling hard to put into words but that you have upon looking at The Lion King II, or Aladdin II, or the 101 Dalmatians II.

You know the feeling. You know the type of thing I am talking about.

The movie is not as great as the first one and can only be compared badly to it, but it is still a fine and enjoyable product on its own right.

The movie expands the universe set by the original, and yet it feels like this new story is of a much smaller scope than the first.

It explores the consequences and the aftermaths of the first movie, usually through a "next generation".

It feels weird somehow. Not "uncomfortable" weird, but somewhere between "funny" weird and "bizarre" weird.

Or is it just me? Whereas Enchanted is the essence of typical Disney "classics"... Disenchanted really managed to recreate and sum up perfectly the feel of a "Disney sequel".

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Kingdom Hearts 4 Challenge Day 1: A World You Want to See

Andalasia!

Okay. Realistically, I know that there could be some issues here. Probably first and foremost being the whole "real people in this movie" thing. Like, I guess the reason that Giselle isn't an official Disney princess is because that if she was, every time Disney used Giselle somewhere, they'd have to pay Amy Adams royalties. So that kind of explanation could be a reason that "Enchanted" might never show up in a Kingdom Hearts game. But wouldn't the same sort of rules be true of the characters in Pirates of the Caribbean? Or Tron? And yet we had those worlds in Kingdom Hearts. So (I could be wrong about this). But I feel like there's a still chance we could get this world, then, if we got those ones.

Another issue is that some of this movie, arguably, might not work that well (the New York part). But I don't know. Either they could not adapt that part of the film, or they could throw Heartless in there (like they have so many other Disney movies "that wouldn't work," to give us something to fight), or make it a mini-game world (in my opinion, with the New York being the mini-game section, and the parts that would adapt well acting as a normal KH section, like fighting Narissa alongside Giselle), or something.

Because you can't tell me that the parts of this movie that do lend themselves to KH well would be marvelous to see. I also feel like Giselle would make a perfect new Princess of Heart, of course. And if they did the humor right, we'd also get some wonderful levity in KHIV with this film.

Personally, Andalasia has been my dream world for a while now. And--while I still doubt it'll ever happen--I'll never completely give up hope on it, and I'd love to see it:)

[thepetitepiper]

[silverskyeline]

logan howlett x scott summers royalty au kate and leopold (2001) x enchanted (2007)

hear me out? i rlly wanna write a fic based on this. . .

[laylakeating]

ENCHANTED (2007) dir. Kevin Lima

[blackthornluce]

James Marsden walked so Ryan Gosling could run as Ken.

[misshollyslair]

I made this illustration back in 2019 and decided to touch it up recently 🌲

[evie-carnahan]

Enchanted (2007)

[madeleineengland]

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas 🎄

[sunhealings]

the rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose...

[idrawprettyboys]

Let’s try again, with a more complete drawing! Guess that actress!

1 hour portrait progress. Guess the actress! The first to guess correctly gets a free non-rendered (no shading, just outline) anime portrait of a character of their choosing.

[hauntedorpheum]

Disney having a gay old time!

+Bonus

[blizzardheart12]

If Chad Charming really did turn out to be adopted, I wouldn’t accept anyone else as his biological dad except Prince Edward from Enchanted because… well, just look at them.

[noodles-and-tea]

Objectively one of the best Disney princesses

[marciabrady]

Scrapped animation from the abandoned project DISNEY PRINCESS FAIRYTALES. The presentation was going to utilize all the same story beats from the original film, except with Phillip in Aurora's place (barring Maleficent's curse). The audience was to follow Aurora planning a surprise for Phillip's birthday, the way the fairies planned one for Aurora in the first film. Aurora then sings a song about love in the forest, just as she does in the original, preceding a fight the fairies get into during the party preparations where they zap one another from blue to pink and the film would've ended with a waltz between Aurora and Phillip after the fairies conjure up a dress for her. This treatment included a lot of traced animation from the first film (none of which is seen above), identical backgrounds, and most of the same costumes, apart from Aurora's finale dress. Despite the fact that previews for this version were released, studio heads at the time rejected it and forced a rework, as this film was their favorite from the Walt era and they were more protective over it.