Cute! I'm officially in love with Amy Adams and I've never even seen June Bug that everyone else loved her for. So this one is about Gisele (Amy Adams) who is stashed away in the woods a la Sleeping Beauty and she's awaiting her true love, Prince Edward (James Marsden). Well, they find each other and plan to marry but the evil queen (almost literally Maleficent) tempts her (a la Snow White) and tosses he down a well. That little trick ends up tossing her out in the middle of NYC via a sewer cover. She meets Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his daughter, Morgan, and the strange fairy tale begins.
It simultaneously upholds the fairy tale and turns the stereotypes on their heads. And it makes veiled (and not-so-veiled) references to all of Disney's princess stories: Gisele calls a midget "Grumpy" at one point; there's a huge choreographed dance number with a calypso beat during which they are in a canoe on a pond, on a carriage, and which includes 12 (I think) men in hard hats; the poison apple makes an appearance; there's a ball and the issue of midnight; a dragon; etc . . . .
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