What a wild disappointment. I enjoyed the original Enchanted quite a bit and this sequel, while well-cast and with some good ideas, falls flat in so many ways.

The film reunites us with Giselle, former fairy tale princess (Amy Adams) and McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) as they move from the city to the suburbs. Their now teenage daughter isn’t pleased and Giselle realizes she’s become a step-mother to her unhappy daughter… so she makes a wish and the movie goes full WandaVision.

The first forty minutes of this flick were poorly executed, plodding, and boring. My heart sunk every second anything was happening on screen and I couldn’t believe this was the pacing of a sequel to a much more fun film. The songs were pretty mediocre too… they felt perfunctory and cliched.

But finally at around that forty minute mark, the movie decided to get to its plot. And that turn introduces some neat ideas and we get to see Amy Adams play against type… and that’s the only reason this flick even gets the rating I’m giving it because the direction it goes is ultimately mediocre and uninspired.

What made Enchanted huggable as a movie was its fish-out-of-water premise. 84.5% of that flick’s charm and sweetness came from a fairy tale princess in the real world. When Disenchanted gets to its plot, it just becomes the kinda disappointing full fairy tale final act of Enchanted. Just a pretty average fantasy/fairy tale adventure story, completely lacking in what made the original film fun.

Still, there’s just enough decent acting and emotion to save it from the garbage heap. But just by a whisker and I suspect I’m being too generous. Amy Adams being able to play two different roles was about the only thing that saves this film. Hope she got paid well.

Score: 70