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Giselle is a beautiful and innocent young girl who lives in the woods with her animal friends helping her about her little tree house. While daydreaming of her longed for meeting with the prince of her dreams one day, she is rudely interrupted by an enormous ogre who is about to eat her for lunch. Along rides her hero in the form of Prince Edward. He literally sweeps her off her feet from her little home in the woods and they fall in love on the back of his horse there and then. Ah!

However his evil step-mother does not want to give up her throne and therefore has to stop Edward marrying at all costs. When Giselle arrives at the palace in her wedding gown the evil step mother disguises herself as an old pedlar woman and tricks Giselle into making a wish over a very deep well.

With a push and shove Giselle is tumbling down through the water and into a whole new world.

The name of this film says it all for me - Enchanted - I was enchanted watching it, and although it is a film mostly aimed at children I absolutely loved it, as did my four year old daughter and to a slightly lesser extent my six year old son.

The story itself is such a fabulous mix of fairytale, adventure, action and comedy that it should easily please the mix of most families and certainly one of the things my daughter liked about it was the fact in the beginning of the film the story is told in cartoon format. Giselle and Prince Edward are cartoon characters, along with all the set and everything else. My daughter was perfectly happy about this as we had not told her much else about the film before going, but when she is thrown down the well; her journey ends up in a man-hole in New York City. She pops up through the man-hole cover as a real person and the whole set changes to a real film. As Giselle was wearing a wedding dress when she was thrown into the magic well this is obviously what she is wearing when she emerges from the sewers (nice and clean still I might add!) It is this dress that had my daughter captivated and she watched with total absorption from this point on.

I must admit the wardrobe department did a fantastic job on all the costumes, especially Giselle's dresses. Her wedding dress is the most intricate in my opinion and is a real fairytale princess dress, with loads of massive skirts and lace and silk to it. But the other characters that pop through the man-hole cover from fairytale land as the film progresses are also just as intricately dressed (being from fairytale land!) and

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