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Enchanted Disney Pictures directed by some guy starring Amy Adams and that guy from Can’t Buy Me Love
Really, Disney? You want to replace your manufactured but still charming childlike innocence with heavy-handed “satire”?
“Enchanted” was an attempt by Disney to make fun of its earlier masterpieces, such as “Snow White” and “Sleeping Beauty” (as well as more recent hits like “the Little Mermaid) by throwing a stereotypical fairytale princess in modern day New York City and playing off of her naivete and innocent ideas about love. Of course the satire had to be as obvious as possible, while throwing a few winks to the parents, but obvious and funny don’t necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. Unfortunately for me, “Enchanted” presented me with many cases in which the two don’t meet.
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Living in a city you hear a lot of things. Some of these things you hear through walls. Sometimes its a baby crying, sometimes its Soulja Boy (an estimated 67% of the population prefer the former). Occasionally it’s lovemaking, but most of the time its screaming and fighting. Such close proximity can be frustrating at times, but I can live with this. It’s a small price to pay for being able to get stoned from merely opening a window.
In his book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, David Ray Griffin hopes once and for all to set the record straight on one of the most sensitive, guarded, emotional topics in American history. The plane crash into the Twin Towers in New York, and whether or not it was orchestrated by terrorists, or by our government, or by a collaboration by the two, is one of the most talked about, researched, speculated about subjects in the past ten years (besides Lost). Most people do not trust the Bush Administration, and no one in this country was left untouched by the events of 9/11.
