{"id":20155,"date":"2022-12-05T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=20155"},"modified":"2022-12-06T19:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:03:51","slug":"disenchanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/disenchanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Disenchanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;I love festivals, we have them all the time where I come from. They were usually interrupted by evil forces of some kind, but when they weren&#8217;t they really brought people together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disenchanted<\/strong>, released in 2022<\/p>\n<p>Giselle and Robert decide to move to Monroeville, but teenaged Morgan isn&#8217;t happy about it. Morgan doesn&#8217;t have a great first day at school, and even Robert isn&#8217;t sure about commuting to the city every day. The King and Queen of Andalasia drop by to give a wand of wishes to their goddaughter, and Giselle decides she will use it to make things better.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/enchanted\/\"><strong>Enchanted<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the common premise of a wish gone bad, it was very nice to see these characters again.<\/p>\n<p>Like <strong>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/strong>, it seemed to have all the right pieces in place but overall didn&#8217;t attain the magic of the previous movie.<\/p>\n<p>The songs are funny and clever. Amy Adams and Maya Rudolph&#8217;s duet is particularly delightful.<\/p>\n<p>As for the plot, there were a few too many things that didn&#8217;t make sense, especially near the end. Characters believe they can do certain things without a logical reason.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Maya Rudolph, Gabriella Baldacchino, Idina Menzel, and James Marsden. Directed by Adam Shankman (<strong>Hairspray<\/strong>). The songs are once again written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;I love festivals, we have them all the time where I come from. They were usually interrupted by evil forces of some kind, but when they weren&#8217;t they really brought people together.&#8221; Disenchanted, released in 2022 Giselle and Robert decide to move to Monroeville, but teenaged Morgan isn&#8217;t happy about it. Morgan doesn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,51,5],"class_list":["post-20155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-musical","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20163,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155\/revisions\/20163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}