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''Enchanted'' is Disney's AffectionateParody of, well, a [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney movie]], specifically the six that spawned the {{Disney Princess}}es.

Giselle lives in the beautiful animated land of Andalasia, where GenreTropes abound. She falls in LoveAtFirstSight with the handsome Prince Edward, and they are to be wed the very next day. But the wicked Queen Narissa, who doesn't want to lose her throne, throws Giselle down a PortalPool to modern day, live action, New York City. In New York she is rescued by Robert, a divorce lawyer who doesn't put much stake in "happily ever after", for whom she eventually falls. Prince Edward follows Giselle to New York in hopes of rescuing her, Robert's fiancée Nancy is caught in the middle, and Queen Narissa follows Giselle in hopes of killing her.

The movie is never quite sure whether it's a {{Deconstruction}} of fairy tales or an actual fairy tale, and continuously bounces between both ends of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. Either way, though, it's still fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.
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!!This film provides examples of:

*ActionGirl: Giselle grabs the sword and goes after the dragon.
*AffectionateParody: Disney sends up their own animated canon, and they have a lot of fun doing it.
*AllMenArePerverts: "Remember, when you go out, not to put too much makeup, otherwise the boys will get the wrong idea. And you ''know'' how they are... They're only after one thing." From the ''six-year-old'', no less.
-->What's that?
-->I don't know. Nobody will tell me."
*AllPartOfTheShow: The bystanders to the TrueLovesKiss scene assume it was some kind of performance.
*AnachronismStew: The costumes at the Kings and Queens Ball. One would assume it'd be medieval- or Elizabethan-themed, but it's more like "whatever the hell period dress you feel like putting on" (there's a Spartan helmet in there...).
*AntagonistsAssimilate: Nathaniel, the evil queen's minion, has no trouble fitting into New York. He even comes up with various disguises and gets at least two jobs while there. Oh, and he apparently knows how to drive.
*AwardBaitSong: "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!
*BeautifulDreamer
*BettyAndVeronica: {{Gender Flip}}ped and played straight.
*BlitheSpirit: Giselle, of course.
*BrainlessBeauty: Edward
** Giselle too, though she improves by the end... though she still [[spoiler:accepted an offer to "help her forget her pains" from the "old lady" who ''pushed her down the magic well''.]] At least Edward didn't swallow Narissa's excuses...
*** Admittedly, Giselle was under a lot of stress and heartache at the time (something probably quite new and unpleasant to her) so the [[spoiler:"old woman"]] probably didn't need to use much pursuasion...
* {{Cameo}}: Several previous Disney princesses make appearances in the movie -- [[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0072533/ Jodi Benson]], the physical model and voice actress for Ariel in ''The Little Mermaid''; Paige O'Hara, the voice actress for Belle in ''Beauty and the Beast''; and Judy Kuhn, who performed the singing voice for ''{{Pocahontas}}''.
*CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: A PairTheSpares that feels like an AssPull. There is a deleted scene that shows how Nancy is a romantic, that was supposed to show why she would be better with Edward than Robert. But, it didn't make it into the movie.
** YourMileageMayVary. Most GenreSavvy tropers probably [[IKnewIt saw it coming]].
*{{Cloudcuckooland}}: Andalasia.
*CrashIntoHello: A twisted version, in that this is not how Giselle is introduced to Robert but rather how she's introduced to Robert's ''girlfriend''. The NotWhatItLooksLike defense is employed.
*CrowdSong: Parodied as ruthlessly as is possible in a Disney movie.
*CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Blink and you'll miss it - Giselle throughout the movie insists that singing to the girl you love is the best way to let her know. When they dance together at the ball, Robert softly sings along with the band's crooner. Pass the tissues, please.
*CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Nancy, after [[LampshadeHanging hanging a lampshade]] on [[CanYouHearMeNow how a cell phone still gets reception in a magical fairytale kingdom]].
*DamselInDistress: {{Gender Flip}}ped
* DanceOfRomance: The only possible explanation behind Nancy and Edward's LastMinuteHookup
*DancesAndBalls: Being a sort of parody on [[FairyTale Fairy Tales]], it has a dramatic and grand Dance Ball near the end. It's complete with Giselle looking stunning in her dress and Robert showing that, although he doesn't like dancing, he actually ''can''.
*DeadpanSnarker: Robert -- in the beginning.
*DevelopmentHell: Disney bought an early version of the script in 1997.
*DoubleSubversion: A ''lot'', due to the film's refusal to commit to being a parody or not.
*EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels: Pip.
*EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Of course, since it's a parody of the movies that foster the mindset.
*EvilOverlooker: See the poster illustrating this article. That giant woman is Queen Narissa.
*HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Nathaniel]]
*FallingIntoHisArms: Played straight with Edward and Giselle, but more of a "Falling ''ontop of'' his arms" with Giselle and Robert.
*FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Probably unintentional, but [[spoiler: it's a-okay to break off a long-standing relationship to marry a girl you've known a week]]. Which adds more fuel to the Parody/Not a Parody fire -- isn't that kinda how all Disney romances go? How many of the DisneyPrincesses know their princes for much longer than that before the HappilyEverAfter?
**Also, your [[spoiler: dad won't mind you borrowing his credit card to take the stranger shopping!]]
*FantasticRomance
*FishOutOfWater: Giselle, obviously, although a lot of things are ignored for the sake of keeping the plot on track.
** This actually gets subverted a bit, in the scene where the Prince and the henchman are in a motel room, and turn on the TV. Initially, they're doing the traditional 'Fish out of Water' bit, but they fairly quickly figure out how to use it, that it's not tiny people trapped inside, and are even able to use the remote quite well. This is probably how someone who had never seen a TV would react: Alarm, but quick adaptation.
*** The prince still thinks it's a magic mirror, though.
*FriendToAllLivingThings: Both played straight AND [[DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce spoofed.]]
*GenreSavvy: Narissa, but apparently only during the FinalBattle, since she always sticks to her plan of [[DisneyDeath Disney Killing]] Giselle until the very ending.
*GettingCrapPastTheRadar
**When Nathaniel first pops out of the manhole, the road workers, exasperated, ask him if he's looking for a beautiful princess like Edward was. Nathaniel's reply: "No. A Prince, actually." The stunned expressions on the roadworkers' faces are obvious.
***[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Hehehe... manhole.]]
**The NotWhatItLooksLike scene is pretty much one long string of crap put past the radar — possibly ParentalBonus, since while the kids won't know what's implied, their parents will. For one thing, save for a towel, Giselle starts out ''naked on top of Robert''. Nancy sarcastically asks if Robert was having some [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "grown-up girl bonding time."]] And when Giselle asks if Nancy thought they ''kissed'', Robert replies: [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "Yeah. Something like that."]]
**The scene immediately following the CrowdSong in which Nathaniel picks up Edward after he's fallen over. "You've fallen on your royal—" [[CurseCutShort "I know, I know."]] But he fell ''forward'', so "ass" seems unlikely. Royal ''jewels'', perhaps?
*** [[{{Discworld}} Succession?]]
**The scene where Edward is looking for Giselle in the apartment building. Behind the one of the doors he knocks on, he finds [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels a stereotypical biker]]... [[HardGay who grins mischievously at him]]. Edward politely excuses himself.
***The romantic-looking scenery of the room behind the biker didn't help things any.
**Then there's this little nugget of dialogue, from Morgan and Giselle's shopping montage:
--->'''Morgan:''' And you don't wanna wear too much make-up, because then boys get the wrong idea... and you know they're only after one thing!
--->'''Giselle:''' What's that?
--->'''Morgan:''' ... I don't know. Nobody will tell me.
*GiantPoofySleeves: Giselle's wedding dress, Edward's shirt.
*HappilyEverAfter: Pretty much the theme of the entire movie.
*[[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Hey, what are [[Film/{{XMen}} Cyclops]], [[GreysAnatomy Dr. McDreamy]], [[{{Rent}} Maureen]] and [[Film/{{HarryPotter}} Peter Pettigrew]] doing in this movie?
** Forget [[{{Rent}} Maureen]], what's [[{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] doing here?!
* HighConcept: "Hey, let's do a RefugeeFromTVLand plot with a Disney princess" said one exec to another.
*HotShoujoDad: Robert, who is a rare non-anime, western live-action example of this trope.
*IFeelAngry: TropeNamer
*IndecisiveParody: The movie never quite decides whether it's a true parody of the DisneyAnimatedCanon or not.
*TheIngenue: Giselle
*IronicEcho: "Is this a big habit of yours, falling off stuff?"
*JamesBondage: Robert [[spoiler: in the final battle between Giselle and Narissa]]
*LargeHam: Edward. James Marsden was clearly enjoying himself more than is street-legal, but that's part of the fun.
*LastMinuteHookup: Edward and Nancy.
*LoveAtFirstSight: Almost parodied. Giselle falls out of a tree onto Edward's horse, and he immediately announces that they'll be married the next day.
*LoveMakesYouEvil: And rejection makes you good.
*MagicalGirlfriend: What else would you call Giselle in New York?
*ManicPixieDreamGirl: Giselle, though she's not an entirely straight example given her character growth and the fact that Robert himself is performing a similar role for ''her''.
*MeaningfulEcho: "True love's kiss. The most powerful force in the world."
*MeetCute: Lampshaded when Giselle falls onto Edward's horse running from a troll he was hunting.
--> "And in years to come we'll reminisce / How we came to love..."
*MissingMom: Morgan and Giselle share a bonding moment over neither having ever had a shopping with mom experience.
** Bonus points in that [[spoiler: Morgan's mom ''isn't'' dead, but actually left her family.]]
*NameThatTune: "Part of Your World" and "Beauty And The Beast"
*NotWhatItLooksLike: See second entry on GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
*OneWingedAngel: Narissa transforms into a dragon as a homage to Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent.
*OutOfSightOutOfMind: Narissa's initial plan -- obviously, it doesn't work.
*PairTheSpares: Take a wild guess.
** It might have been foreshadowed by Edward when he and Giselle were reuinited at Robert's apartment.
-->"Somewhere there's a maid I've never met..."
*ThePalantirPloy: Narissa can turn any body of water [[spoiler:(or soup, or alcohol)]] in the real world into a spy camera.
*ThePaolo: Nancy, Robert's fiancée [[spoiler: who takes up Giselle's place and marries Prince Edward in the end.]]
*PimpedOutDress: Giselle's would-be wedding dress.
*PrinceCharming: Edward, parodied.
* PrinceCharmless: Again, Edward.
*PrincessClassic: Giselle, also parodied.
*PropheticNames: Robert's last name is Philip ({{Sleeping Beauty}}'s prince) and Nancy's is Tremaine ({{Cinderella}}'s evil stepfamily.)
*RefugeeFromTVLand: The fairytale Princess, her handsome Prince, a wicked Queen, and SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer all being transported to modern New York City.
*ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The "turtles are cute" subversion.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Of the second variety.
*ShallowLoveInterest: Prince Edward.
*ShoppingMontage: In this case however, the "protégée" is an adult, and the person who takes her shopping is a child.
*ShoutOut: Many, many, ''many'' to past Disney movies. The BlueRay DVD version even contains a special feature on them.
** A particularly delicious one is the name of the roving reporter who tells Edward how to find Giselle, since it references the voice actresses of three Disney princesses: Mary (Costa, ''Sleeping Beauty'') Ilene (Wood, ''Cinderella''), Caselotti (Andrea, ''Snow White''). To know this, of course, you'd have to be a true fan...or have no life. You make the call.
*** Well, if you didn't know and you're finding out [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife here…]]
*SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Nathaniel.
*SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Idealism may be easier and less painful, but cynicism is more fun.
* SkepticismFailure: It takes Robert a very long time to admit to himself that Giselle ''really'' is magical, ''despite'' watching her magical song powers in action.
* SlapSlapKiss: Giselle is ''really'' turned on by how Robert makes her - what is it called? - so ''angry''!
*SomebodyElsesProblem: A young woman wearing a dress the size of a building pops out of a manhole and runs into traffic, babbling about a prince and a castle, and gets nothing more than a few confused/annoyed {{Aside Glance}}s -- well, this ''is'' New York City!
*SpeechImpairedAnimal: Pip in New York, back in Andalasia he's a TalkingAnimal like all the animals in Andalasia
*StockScream: The troll has Goofy's scream, or something remarkably similar, when he gets thrown in the air
*StrangledByTheRedString: Deconstructed and played straight -- The Aesop of the film is that this is impossible... [[spoiler:and then it hooks up two of the characters at the last minute.]] Hm.
*TakeThat: At the beginning of the movie, when the old hag, who's really Narissa in disguise, pushes Giselle into the well, she says that she sent her to a place "where there are no happily ever afters...NEW YORK"! Nice.
*TastesLikeDiabetes: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NzDB_i3bw first three minutes]]. That was supposed to be a parody of things that taste like diabetes.
*ThisIsReality
-->'''Giselle:''' What sort of awful place is this?
-->'''Robert:''' It's reality!
-->'''Giselle:''' Well, I think I'd prefer to be in Andalasia.
*ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Even if you're a princess.
*TrappedInAnotherWorld
*TreeBuchet: The troll in the beginning of the movie has this happen to him.
*TrueLovesKiss: Giselle has an IWantSong ''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 Troperriffic TrueLovesKiss before midnight (of course) in order to wake up. [[spoiler: Robert, of course, manages to rouse her in the nick of time with a TrueLovesKiss.]]
*UnfortunateImplications: At one point, Nathaniel imprisons the chipmunk Pip by leaving him dangling in mid-air by the arms. Being trapped in this position generally leads to death by asphyxiation, as anyone [[CrucifiedHeroShot nailed to a big wooden cross by a Roman]] can testify.
** Like that was going to happen in a Disney movie.
**Wouldn't this be WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic, rather then UnfortunateImplications? Oh, right, ''Disney''. [[{{SarcasmMode}} It's got to have]] UnfortunateImplications.
*UrineTrouble: Happens to Edward, when he's hunting Giselle outside Robert's apartment complex.
*UnnecessaryMakeover: Giselle gets a makeover before going to The Ball, giving her a more "realistic" appearance to contrast with the somewhat silly "fairy-tale princess" look she originally had. Given the plot and themes of the film, this makes perfect sense, and the characters react according to the trope. Unfortunately, the filmmakers put the actress in a rather unflattering dress and gave her an unimpressive hairstyle, completely ruining the intended effect; she was much prettier as a "fantasy princess" than as a "real woman".
**That, and the fact that the ball is ''fairy tale themed''.
**Maybe this was the point? Perhaps she was supposed to have a drab "real world" appearance while everyone else got to look like something out of a fairy tale?
**That's actually a good point — consider that, when the group meets up, Giselle sort of looks like Nancy when we first saw her, and the dolled-up Nancy looks like when we first saw live-action Giselle. It's like [[spoiler:it's foreshadowing the switch that'll happen at the end]].
**It is the point; {{Word of God}} has [[http://web.archive.org/web/20071125125629/www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1195810501231580.xml&coll=2 confirmed this]]. You'll notice that Giselle's outfits get progressively less fairy-tale-ish and more real-world/conservative as time goes on. When you first see her, she's in that ridiculous wedding dress; the dress she makes out of Robert's curtains is more understated but still fairy-tale like. This continues until the final scenes in the modern ball gown dress and the ending scene.
*UpTheRealRabbitHole: After one attempt to locate it, as far as Robert is concerned, Andalasia (a very real if MagicalLand) is "fantasy", and ThisIsReality. Nobody ever corrects him or acts as if this makes anything but perfect sense.
**Humorously enough, the secretary making the attempt to locate it got the name wrong, and was looking for "Andalusia". It's rather odd that she didn't find it; that's the name of a place in Spain.
*WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Not quite. While Giselle's band of forest critter 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... [[DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce 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".
*XMeetsY: This is "Cinderella Meets Snow White Meets Reality" or "{{Disney}} meets Reality".
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