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I loved Enchanted! I saw it last week. It was adorable! :]

Gizelle cracked me up! She was so.... oblivious! Haha! But yet so cute at the same time. Her dresses ROCKED! (I would pay her to make me a dress.... LOL).

Pip was awesome of course.

Oh, oh! And did anyone realize that Nathaniel's voice was Timothy Spall??? I knew it the moment I heard it, and I hadn't even the slightest idea that he was supposed to be in the movie. So I was kind of waiting to see his character enter the "real world" through the manhole, just to make sure I was correct. LOL.

I want a Prince now.... Aww....

But that movie will teach little girls something. See, my generation, and even those before me, watched Disney Princess movies and always thought that they would marry the first "prince" [figire] that they met/were with. Enchanted teaches them otherwise! YAY!

Nice to meet ya, Lady Pirate. Yeah, I knew right away that was Timothy Spall, too (yay being a 'Harry Potter' freak!)
And Lady Pawn- yeah, it was silly, but that's what made it so cute in my opinion. smile
You really think that 'Golden Compass' was only "bearable"? I had a few friends who thought it was great. (Just wondering why)

Well, I'm biased when it's a movie made off of a book... because if it's a book I've read, I get all of my hopes up and start looking forward to certain scenes, and hoping that they capture what I was feeling when I read this part or that part...

And when my hopes are dashed because the characters don't look how I imagined them, or they're missing scenes I deemed critical, or they have all the scenes but they seem crammed in there with no thought, emotion or point.

It comes down to me believing that books and movies should be two different things and not cross over into eachother's worlds. Books are only entertaining because they actively use the imagination, they have cliffhanger chapters and little itty-bitty pieces of information that are so easily skimmed over when in a mad rush to get to the next page. They almost always come back and bite you in the @ss. And that's what I love about reading. For example, in the Harry Potter series... JK Rowling hides all of her juicy clues in the open and the only reason you don't go, "AHA! She's going to use that later... I just know it!" Is there's no dramatic music, no voice that drips 'this line is important'. So you miss it until the plot unravels and you get that 'Oh!'.

The climax in books is soooooo much more invigorating then that in movies because as the protaganist pieces together all those missed bits of information, you do as well, since you missed them just like the main character did (unless the author made them alittle too obvious and your going, "No little bookman! Don't go into the dangerous trap you stupid little paperback fool!"). In a movie I'm always going, "No... don't do that, didn't you see this!? God that's so unrealistic..." because my imagination isn't giving it a chance because there's no real chance to give.

And boy... I'm definately ranting. This is what happens when I get sick and cynical. I get bored and all essay-like on the population.

To get to the point. I never read The Golden Compass, but it seems to me like it would have been a wonderful experience if I could have only imagined it and not watch it play out on screen wondering if it missed something here or didn't do the scene justice there. It was only bearable because it was pretty and I'm a fan of Nicole Kidman... I just hate squirming in my seat longing to read the book instead of staring at a wall.

Sorry for the lenghty post and the 'in your face' opinion. You can completely disagree if you wish. Your entitled to your own opinion just as well as I am.

Lexell heart heart heart Prince Edward!

It's really amazing, James Marsden sings better than me and our friends hear and imagine with Hairspray!

(I'm a musicals freak too, sorry sweatdrop )

I love Pip too, how he acts like Giselle rofl

As my sister had said when we left the theatre, "It reminds us of why we loved the classic Disney movies so much growing up."