The Amy Adams-starring sequel to 2007’s Enchanted is now streaming on Disney+.
Disenchanted, the direct-to-Disney+ sequel for the best Disney live-action fairy tale film, is held together by the magic that is Amy Adams. The story, unfortunately, lacks enough of its own magic to feel completely satisfying.
In the previous film, Enchanted, her Giselle was a delightful princess-to-be trope that came to life and found herself in modern-day New York City. She discovered there’s more to life than “true love’s kiss” and ended up with Robert (Patrick Dempsey), a hotshot lawyer, rather than perfect himbo prince Edward (James Marsden). The first film captured the sincerity of striving to keep the best of fairytale ideals in a world that could use a little magic—while breaking the tropes that needed to be broken in real life through music and climactic action (shout out to Susan Sarandon for being a delicious dragon villain).
In Disenchanted, we find Giselle seeking ways to recapture magic in her life. Her family has outgrown their NYC apartment, her stepdaughter Morgan (now played by Gabriella Baldacchino) is a teen, and their family has welcomed a new baby, Sofia. So they decide to uproot to suburbia, Monroeville—a not-so-idyllic place, despite outward appearances, where mean-girl mom Malvina Monroe (Maya Rudolph) and her two minions (Jayme Mays and Yvette Nicole Brown) run the show.
Seeing that suburbia is not all that it’s cracked up to be and with a teen who misses her old life in the city, Giselle takes matters in her own hands when the opportunity presents itself.
