FILM 2084: ENCHANTED (2007)
FILM 2084: ENCHANTED (2007)
TRIVIA: The law firm where Robert works is Churchill, Harline, and Smith, the surnames of the songwriters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Idina Menzel, a Broadway veteran and Tony Award winner, does not sing in the movie. In an interview, Menzel stated she felt flattered to be hired solely as an actress.
The wedding dress that Giselle wore weighed 45 pounds. A stunt double taught Amy Adams how to move in the dress. She described it as "grueling" since "the entire weight was on my hips, so occasionally it felt like I was in traction".
The actresses who provided the voices for three previous animated Disney princesses make appearances in the film: Jodi Benson ('Ariel' in The Little Mermaid (1989)), Paige O'Hara ('Belle' in Beauty and the Beast (1991)), and Judy Kuhn as the title character's singing voice in (Pocahontas (1995)). Also, Julie Andrews, who starred as the title character in Disney's live-action Mary Poppins (1964), provides her voice here as the Narrator and Idina Menzel, who plays Nancy, would later voice the queen, Elsa, in the Disney's animated movie, Frozen (2013), released six years after Enchanted (2007).
Disney had originally planned to add Giselle to the Disney Princess line-up, as was shown at a 2007 toy fair where the Giselle doll was featured with packaging declaring her with Disney Princess status, but decided against it when they realized they would have to pay for lifelong rights to Amy Adams' image.
According to director Kevin Lima, "thousands" of references are made to past and future works of Disney in Enchanted (2007), which serve as both a parody of and a "giant love letter to Disney classics". As Lima worked with Bill Kelly, the writer, to inject Disney references to the plot, it became "an obsession"; he derived the name of every character as well as anything that needed a name from past Disney films to bring in more Disney references.
The background music on the TV in the hotel room is from past Disney films.
The restaurant that Edward and Gisele have dinner at is named Bella Notte. That is the name of the song being sung while Lady and Tramp are eating spaghetti in Lady and the Tramp.
Two of the elderly men dancers in the "How Do You Know" number danced together as members of the Jets gang in West Side Story (1961).
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