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It has been more than ten years since Giselle (Adams) and Robert (Dempsey) wed, but Giselle has grown disillusioned with life in the city, so they move their growing family to the sleepy suburban community of Monroeville in search of a more fairy tale life. Unfortunately, it isn’t the quick fix she had hoped for. Suburbia has a whole new set of rules and a local queen bee, Malvina Monroe (Rudolph), who makes Giselle feel more out of place than ever. Frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, she turns to the magic of Andalasia for help, accidentally transforming the entire town into a real-life fairy tale and placing her family’s future happiness in jeopardy. Now, Giselle is in a race against time to reverse the spell and determine what happily ever after truly means to her and her family.Disenchanted sees Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey reprising their roles from Enchanted as Giselle and Robert Philip, respectively, alongside James Marsden (Sonic) as Prince Edward and Idina Menzel (Frozen) as Nancy Tremaine. Newcomers to this blockbuster fairy-tale will be Maya Rudolph (The Good Place), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Jayma Mays (Glee), Kolton Stewart (My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2), Oscar Nunez (The Office), and Gabriella Baldacchino. (courtesy Flickering Myth)
What comes after the happy ever after?
Honestly, I’m not sure there are that many fairytales that try to find out since ending on that obliquely promising phrase is assumed to be all you need to say after true love has found you; you’re happy at that point so you’ll be forever, right?
Not so fast – the truth is that even the happiest of us finds the “after” part more than a little bit arduous and that includes dear, sweet Giselle from Enchanted who, a decade later is not finding herself unhappy so much as not as happy as she was.
What to do, what to do?
While most of us would head to therapy, Giselle decides magic could be the solution to her problems, an assumption that happily for the narrative of Disenchanted, the sequel to the film that gave her her supposed happy ever after to begin with, turns out to be not as simply as she thought.
No doubt she will get another crack at happiness by the end of the film but the getting there looks like being a whole lot of diabolical fun!
Disenchanted premieres on Disney+ on 18 November.
