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[[File:enchantedenglish.jpg|frame|The Real and Animated worlds collide, and cause an enormous philosophical discussion on Fairy Tales.]]
'''''Enchanted''''' is Disney's [[Affectionate Parody]] of... [[Don't Explain the Joke|well]], a [[Self-Parody|Disney movie]], specifically the ones that spawned the [[Disney Princess]]es.
Giselle lives in the beautiful animated land of Andalasia, where [[Genre Tropes]] abound. She falls in [[Love At First Sight]] with the handsome Prince Edward, and they are to be wed the very next day. But his stepmother, the wicked Queen(-Regent) Narissa, doesn't want to surrender the throne, so she throws Giselle down a [[Portal Pool]] to modern day, live action, [[Big Applesauce|New York City]]. There she is rescued by Robert, a divorce lawyer who doesn't put much stock in "[[Happily Ever After]]". Prince Edward follows Giselle to New York in hopes of rescuing her, Robert's fiancée Nancy is caught in the middle, and Queen Narissa sends her lackey Nathaniel after Giselle in hopes of killing her.
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In November 2021, Disney announced that the [[Sequel]], ''[[Disenchanted]]'', would premiere in Fall 2020, exclusively on [[Disney+]].
[[I Thought That Was|Not to be confused]] with ''[[Ella Enchanted]]'', nor with [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Enchantment]]''.
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* [[Action Girl]]: After spending most of the movie as a [[Princess Classic]], Giselle turns into one to fight the [[Big Bad]].
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[[Ping-Pong Naivete|"I don't know. Nobody will tell me."]] }}
* [[All Part of the Show]]:
** The bystanders to the [[True Love's Kiss]] scene assume it was some kind of performance...until Narissa transformed into a dragon. And even then, some of them bemoan the "special effects".
** Also, the patrons at the Italian restaurant applaud after Nathaniel's fight with Pip, although it's not clear whether they think it was all a show, or they're just that glad the rodent's gone.
* [[Award Bait Song]]: "So Close", which weirdly enough, is the one song in the movie where the placement ''makes sense''—it's used as the "slow dance" song at a ball. Giselle's magic voice not necessary! Strangely enough, it's a bittersweet love song—apt for our leading couple but presumably less so for the other dancers, who, while invited to dance with someone they did not come to the ball with, presumably do not have the same unresolved feelings for one another.
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* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Giselle plays this straight, but it’s averted with Queen Narissa. And only Narissa uses her good looks to her advantage.
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Giselle can never, ever get dirty. (She does get slightly dirty on the bottom of her dress in the beginning.)
* [[Because You Were Nice to Me]]: Giselle ends up falling in love for Robert partly for this reason. She was having a bad time in NYC until he showed up, because NYC wasn’t her fairy tale kingdom.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: [[Gender Flip]]ped but otherwise played straight.
* [[Big Bad]]: Queen Narissa. She is based off the Evil Queen from Snow White, after all.
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:* Of course, since she is [[Susan Sarandon]], she ''is'' lovely, even dark.
* [[Development Hell]]: Disney bought an early version of the script in 1997.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Queen Narissa's evil is brought to Edward's attention only when Nathaniel tells him she's evil. Though in Edward’s defense, Nathaniel himself allowed Narissa to use her good looks to take advantage of him, though he wised up by then.
* [[Disney Creatures of the Farce]]: In New York, Giselle's singing summons rats, pigeons, cockroaches, and flies! Well, it could be worse; she could have inadvertently shanghaied the neighbors' housepets.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: It's like they read the friggin' page. [[Affectionate Parody|Oh wait...]]
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Giselle goes barefoot in the animated segments. Though it doesn’t last forever.
* [[Double Subversion]]: A ''lot'', due to the film's refusal to commit to being a parody or not.
* [[Dude in Distress]]: At the end of the film, Narissa turns into an [[One-Winged Angel|enormous dragon]], grabbing Robert and flying with him to the top of the Woolworth Building, forcing Giselle to save the day.
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{{quote|'''Robert:''' Over my dead body!
'''Narissa:''' All right, I'm flexible. ''(attacks Robert)'' }}
* [[Guess Who I'm Marrying]]: A heroic variant. Robert is going to marry Nancy, whom Morgan perceives as a threat due to her sharing the same surname of Cinderella's stepmother and the overall reception of stepmothers in fairy tales. Thanks to Giselle's arrival, his plans are derailed.
* [[Happily Ever After]]: Pretty much the theme of the entire movie…though Narissa and Robert both believe that they aren’t any happily ever afters in New York. Giselle proves them both wrong…and gives the latter a happily ever after of his own.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Nathaniel.}}, once he realizes that Narissa is using him.
* [[Held Gaze]]: Robert and Giselle do this at the ball during their [[Dance of Romance]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Giselle suffers a mild case of this when she learns about the concept of divorce.
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* [[Hot Dad]]: The divorced Robert, who was played by Patrick Demsey AKA [[Grey's Anatomy|Dr McDreamy.]]
* [[I Do Not Speak Nonverbal]]: Prince Edward towards the now mute and impressive mime Pip.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: When Edward realizes {{spoiler|Giselle's true love is Robert}}, he immediately starts pushing {{spoiler|Robert to kiss Giselle}} in order to save her with no jealousy whatsoever. Robert is hesitant, but then {{spoiler|Nancy also relinquishes her former love}} and tells him to. Not terribly surprising considering Edward knew Gisselle for all of a day, less a miss right and more a miss right now.
* [[Improvised Zipline]]: Pip the Chipmunk did this on a wire with a clothes hanger.
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* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Giselle, if the shower scene is any indication.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Is this a big habit of yours, falling off stuff?"
* [[Is This What Anger Feels Like?]]: [[Futurama|Other]] [[Trope Namer]] when it was called "I Feel Angry". {{context|reason=Fine, it's a trope namer, but it's more important to tell people who it applies to and how.}}
* [[Knight in Shining Armour]]: The movie begins with Prince Edward saving Giselle from a troll and they plan to get married the next day.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
** Pretty much the entire movie, but particularly the song "That's How You Know", where Robert, acting the part of the [[Straight Man]], wonders how on earth everyone knows the words for a song he'd never heard.
** A great deal of Queen Narissa's dialog consists of this.
* [[Large Ham]]:
** Edward. James Marsden was clearly enjoying himself more than is street-legal, but that's part of the fun.
** Susan Sarandon as Narissa is even more remorselessly hammy. Narissa is such a [[Large Ham]] that she continues after going [[One-Winged Angel]], which is normally the point where most villains lose their ability to speak. You can safely argue that it makes her pretty entertaining, though. So there’s nothing wrong with that by that logic.
* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: {{spoiler|Edward and Nancy.}}
* [[Lord Error-Prone]]: Edward, being that this movie deconstructs fairytales.
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* [[Speech-Impaired Animal]]: Pip in New York becomes a literal example. Back in Andalasia he's a [[Talking Animal]] like all the animals in Andalasia.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: Rightfully turned [[Amy Adams]] into a instant star.
* [[Stock Scream]]:
** The troll has Goofy's scream, or something remarkably similar, when he gets thrown in the air.
*** And a Wilhelm Scream can be heard at the start of Narissa's transformation.
* [[Suggestive Collision]]: Giselle, dressed only in a towel, falls out of the bathroom onto Robert. Right when Robert's girlfriend walks in.
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* [[Tree Buchet]]: The troll in the beginning of the movie has this happen to him.
* [[Troperiffic]]
* [[True Love's Kiss]]:
** Giselle has an [["I Want" Song]] ''called'' "True Love's Kiss".
** It's also played straight near the end of the movie, when, like a good Disney princess, she's hexed to sleep. She needs a [[Troperiffic]] [[True Love's Kiss]] before midnight (of course) in order to wake up. {{spoiler|Robert, of course, manages to rouse her in the nick of time with a [[True Love's Kiss]].}}
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* [[Villains Blend in Better]]: Nathaniel seems to have much less trouble navigating New York than Giselle does, showing up in a variety of guises and apparent jobs. (Possibly he has a fairytale-villain-instant-disguise trait that carries over the way Giselle's fairytale-heroine-magic-singing trait does.)
* [[Wafer-Thin Mint]]: Pip has this effect on a tree branch that's already holding Giselle and a giant troll. {{spoiler|And again on a metal spire Narissa is on.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]:
** Not quite. While Giselle's band of woodland animal friends in Andalasia does contain a lot of "cute" animals, we also see a warthog, an alligator, and other decidedly non-cute-standard creatures.
** Thoroughly deconstructed when Giselle calls the creatures of New York to help her clean Robert's home for him [[Disney Creatures of the Farce|and ends up with an entourage of rats, pigeons, and cockroaches]]. With a queasy look: "Well...it's always nice to make ''new'' friends..." Eventually she gets along with them just fine "...even though you're vermin."
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* [[X Meets Y]]: "[[Disney]] meets Reality".
* [[You're Insane!|You're Crazy!]]
{{quote|'''Narissa:''' No! Spiteful, vindictive, [[One-Winged Angel|''very'' large]], but never crazy!}}
* [[You Said You Couldn't Dance]]: Word for word.
{{quote|'''Giselle:''' You said you couldn't dance!
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Fantasy Films]]
[[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]]
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[[Category:Hugo Award]]
[[Category:Film]]
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