Disney still has the magic Not rated   (0 votes) General mischief ·  Mar 29 2008, 07:31 AM Yesterday my son and I went to see the new Disney movie, "Enchanted". For me, it was as close to a perfect movie as the modern world has ever come. The balance of characters, events, places, scenes, transitions, music, story, so forth and so on was completely and totally flawless. It was hilarious, uplifting, satiric, sarcastic, serious, whimsical, and loaded with social commentary in the time-honored traditions established by Walt Disney himself. It was, hands down, the single most entertaining movie I have seen since the mid-eighties when Hollywood offered us "Back to the Future" and "Indiana Jones and the Search for the Lost Ark". It opens in the kind animated world that Disney created the template for with Snow White and Cinderella. The first ten minutes are loaded with intimate and revealing allusions to so many Disney classics it is impossible to keep track of them all. The overall sentiment is intentionally over-the-board melodramatic and sickly saccharine. Then the evil-stepmother-disguised-as-an-old-hag pushes the princess down the bottomless well and the story really takes off! From that point on the humor and social commentary does not stop. Every single frame is loaded with philosophical conflicts, biting social criticisms, and familiar Disney themes presented in a thoroughly modern and realistic social context. Walt Disney theaters have not made a movie like this since Walt stepped down from the top chair. In whatever technicolor paradise he finally landed in, Walt is surely smiling.    Comments for: Disney still has the magic RicoSuave Apr 4 2008, 10:21 PM   Master Group: Members Posts: 228 Joined: 22-March 06 Member No.: 585 My favorite part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x-CqPoAmNs Add Comment Logged in as:Guest Smilies BB Code Help

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