Disenchanted
Disney+ | Release Date (Streaming): November 18, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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19
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San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisNov 18, 2022
Disenchanted, a delightful follow-up to the beloved fairy tale Enchanted, delivers everything you could ask for in a sequel. It not only continues the original film’s magical mix of music, animation, live action and humor, but also takes the story in a new and interesting direction. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonNov 22, 2022
How much you enjoy yourself depends on whether you’re a fan of the original, or of Amy Adams. Read full review
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The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldNov 18, 2022
Adams, six Academy Award nominations later, still sings and dances like a Technicolor dream, and this time around she gets to have some fun as not only the ultra-sweet Giselle, whose voice sounds like butterflies and sunrises, but an evil alter ego. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineAbby OlceseNov 18, 2022
It’s light on the satire, and heavy on the fairy tale rules and aesthetics. There’s still plenty of charm to go around, and it’s ultimately a fun experience, but it undeniably avoids the original movie’s strongest aspects in favor of sincerity. Read full review
70
SlashfilmJosh SpiegelNov 18, 2022
It's a delightful surprise that the Disney+ sequel, Disenchanted, in spite of having a thudder of a title, is a moderately charming affair bolstered, per usual, by a phenomenal lead performance from one of our best living actresses. Read full review
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IGNAmelia EmberwingNov 18, 2022
The movie’s only real sin is some dull lyrics for rough songs. Amy Adams’ return as Giselle is a charming one, and families will have plenty of fun sitting down to watch this sequel together. Read full review
63
PolygonPetrana RadulovicNov 18, 2022
The new sequel on Disney Plus has some fun moments, but it can’t capture the first movie’s originality and magic. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredErielle SudarioNov 28, 2022
Disenchanted shows what life was like after happily ever after, but it doesn't build on themes that made 'Enchanted' great. Read full review
60
Little White LiesElla KempNov 18, 2022
It’s more of a soundtrack album of a movie, a sequel crying out for a stage production to give little girls and lethargic parents a rare night off: something to sing about. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNov 18, 2022
Adams is still an absolute dynamo as Giselle, fluctuating between preternatural cheeriness and storybook meanness. As in the first film, the actress strikes a graceful balance between the silly and the sincere, embodying and even humanizing everything people love about fairy tales. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentNov 18, 2022
If you liked Enchanted, this is a dependably familiar serving. In an era where Disney is constantly raiding its archives for intellectual property to remake, this is a sequel that feels unusually original by comparison. Read full review
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Total FilmJamie GrahamNov 18, 2022
It’s a delight to watch Amy Adams do Jekyll and Hyde as she incrementally transforms from cheery Giselle to noxious stepmother, while Maya Rudolph is a whole heap of fun as the ultimate control-freak soccer mom who - of course - becomes queen when Monroeville turns into “one big fantasia”. Read full review
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Screen RantRachel LaBonteNov 18, 2022
This is a sequel that doesn’t quite surpass its original, but is still a worthy follow-up all on its own. Anyone who enjoyed the original Enchanted should find plenty to love here. Read full review
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The GuardianBenjamin LeeNov 18, 2022
At a baggy, over-stretched two hours, its welcome is close to being overstayed, but there’s just about enough charm to keep Disenchanted from living up to its title. Read full review
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IndieWireSamantha BergesonNov 18, 2022
Much like its message, Disenchanted reminds us that every moment has the potential for providing us with a happily ever after, but it’s the good and the bad that makes it ever more enchanting. Did we need a sequel to “Enchanted”? Not really, but it’s cute enough to cast a bit of an escapist spell this holiday season. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryNov 18, 2022
Amy Adams nimbly steps back into the role of an animated princess trying to adapt to the live-action world, in an epilogue to “Enchanted” that has moments of magic without completely delivering on the premise. Read full review
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Vanity FairRichard LawsonNov 18, 2022
It is a proper movie, one that probably would have fared decently in theatrical release. I believe there was genuine artistic intent put into the making of the film, which distinguishes Disenchanted from HP2 and so many other chintzy streaming endeavors. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesNov 18, 2022
Although it's gorgeous to look at (especially Joan Bergin’s costumes), Disenchanted fails to truly rekindle the magic, or the biting wit of its predecessor. Read full review
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The New York TimesAmy NicholsonNov 18, 2022
Adams doesn’t gain much by returning for Disenchanted, a cluttered and noisy sequel directed by Adam Shankman from a screenplay by Brigitte Hales. Neither does the original film’s fan base. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeNov 18, 2022
Disenchanted lacks the charisma and curiosity of its predecessor. Read full review
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ColliderRoss BonaimeNov 18, 2022
Disenchanted posits that happily ever after isn’t always the ending of the story, but Disenchanted also proves that sometimes, maybe it should be. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyNov 18, 2022
This isn’t an organic continuation of Giselle’s story so much as an uninspired knockoff of the original, yet another attempt to use existing IP to attract viewers and subscribers besotted by the prospect of watching something familiar on a Friday night. Read full review
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The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeNov 18, 2022
What we really needed was something in the vein of the second Scream film – a sequel that, rather than just deconstructing classic Disney tropes, satirised emerging conventions of the streaming sequel. Read full review
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The IndependentJessie ThompsonNov 18, 2022
Sometimes “happily ever after” isn’t a cop out, or an outdated, romantic notion that marriage solves everything. Sometimes it’s just the best time to stop the story. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 18, 2022
Adams almost makes it work through sheer force of musical-comedy will: her mimicry of “classic wicked stepmother poses” is a scream, and despite the thin material, she never looks less than fully, beamingly engaged. Even so, it’s hard not to wish she’d just stuck with her happily ever after first time around. Read full review
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VarietyOwen GleibermanNov 18, 2022
Obvious in its comedy, at once overblown and undernourished in its fantasy, Disenchanted, at times, is like a kiddified “Don’t Worry Darling” crossed with “Cinderella Strikes Back.” At others, it’s a light show in search of a movie. The visual effects are all swirling sparkles and sprouting vines, but the real problem is that the film has a pandering impersonality, along with the busy skewed logic of a metaverse. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreNov 18, 2022
Marsden is pretty much the only reminder of how campy and giddy this material once was and that the new film should have striven to be. Love him. Love Rudolph. Adore Amy Adams most of all. But Disenchanted plays like a contractual obligation, a paycheck, a nearly laughless show of loyalty to the folks who made you what you are. Read full review
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New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNov 18, 2022
One sequence is amusing: a number called “Fairytale Life (After the Spell)” in which panini grills and espresso machines sing along like they live in Pee-wee’s Playhouse. You struggle to care about the rest. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubCourtney HowardNov 18, 2022
Its lack of legitimate wit, cleverness, and focus makes a promising concept feel like a wasted wish, conjuring little of the magic that made its predecessor feel so memorable. Read full review
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