Disney+ dropped a new flick called Godmothered which is remarkably similar to their own film Enchanted. Enchanted was a better, funnier, and more romantic film. And putting on my overthinker hat, much better at the very similar high concept.
Godmothered is about a fairy-godmother-in-training who realizes the godmother gig has a shelf life (soon she’ll have to become a tooth fairy). So she travels to the real world to find a little girl who had asked for help. Only that girl (played by Isla Fisher) turns out to be all grown up with two kids of her own and a new set of problems. The godmother must now help her family with their problems while having no concept of how the real world works.
I shouldn’t bother worrying over whether or not this movie got its fairy godmother concepts right… but I guess I will. On a pure conceptual level, this movie is all over the place. It doesn’t have a consistent idea of what a fairy godmother is and, instead, just kind of has a vague hand-waving idea that it’s all about fantasy kingdoms or vague magics. Look, it’s a Disney+ film that’s surely not meant to be analyzed… but what it comes back down to is how much better Enchanted pulled this off. This film – which isn’t great in the first place – is made worse by the comparison.
So fine… ignoring that (and, really, you probably should), is the movie funny, heartwarming, or cute? Sporadically… very sporadically. And the funniest thing is, when it hits the heartwarming and cute bits, it has nothing – not a thing – to do with the fairy godmother business. They could have cut all that out and had an equally good (if not better) film. Because all the godmother stuff is used in the comedy and most of it is desperate, disjointed, and sad.
So I guess stay for the occasional heartwarming fun? Maybe keep your standards low and try to enjoy the iffy fantastical elements? I dunno… I’d just skip it. I probably should have just skipped it.
Score: 64