ENCHANTED MOVIE SYNOPSIS

The movie begins with a narration (Julie Andrews) about the fairytale land of Andalasia. The
Evil Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) wants to keep her throne as long as she can so has
tried to keep her step-son, Prince Edward (James Marsden) away from the fair maidens so
he will not get married and she will not lose her throne. The scene cuts to Giselle (Amy
Adams) who is making a statue of the true love she has dreamed of. Her animal friends,
including her best friend chipmunk Pip, help her make the statue and find the perfect pair of
lips, as lips and true loves kiss is the most important thing in the world. At the same time,
we see Prince Edward (James Marsden) hunting ogres with servant Nathaniel and he hears
Giselle's song. He starts towards Giselle's home, but Nathaniel (clearly on the Queens side)
lets an ogre after Giselle. Edward saves Giselle from the ogre and tells her that now they
have met they will be marriedtomorrow. Giselle arrives at the castle the next day and is met
by Nathaniel who locks her animal friends out of the wedding. She is stopped by an old hag,
the queen in disguise, who tricks into going to a wishing well and pushes her into a place
where there are no happily ever afters; New York City. [Everything that happens in Andalsia
is portrayed in animation; everything that happens in New York is live action.]

Upon arriving through a manhole in the middle of Times Square, Giselle tries to find the
nearest castle in order to get home. After causing a car accident, taking the subway, and
having her crown stolen by a homeless man, she manages to find the castle on top of the
Palace Casino. At this point, the movie cuts to Robert Phillip (Patrick Dempsey) in a divorce
settlement meeting. The couple is fighting over a Hank Aaron baseball card when his
secretary tells him it is time to pick up his daughter, Morgan. She asks Robert if he has told
Morgan about his plans to marry his girlfriend Nancy (Idina Menzel), to which he says no. In
the taxi home, he gives Morgan a present; not the fairy tale book she wanted, but instead a
book on inspirational women including Madame Curie and Rosa Parks. At a stop Morgan
sees Giselle trying to get into the palace and gets out of the taxi. Robert follows her and
ends up catching Giselle when she falls off the sign. Morgan instantly believes she is a
princess and wants to help her while Robert thinks she is absolutely crazy. They end up
bringing her to their apartment where Giselle ends up falling asleep on the couch while
Robert calls her a car. He lets her stay overnight when he sees she is sleeping, but tells
Morgan to sleep in his room for the night.

Giselle wakes up the next morning and sees that the apartment is filthy. She goes to the
window and calls the animals (roaches, flies, rats, and pigeons) to help her clean the house.
A one-legged pigeon drops a plate while cleaning, which wakes up Morgan and Robert. The
two attempt to get rid of the animals and Robert talks to Giselle as she is about to get into
the magical shower. At the same time, Nancy arrives to bring Morgan to school and gets the
wrong idea when she sees Giselle in her towel with Robert and leaves. Robert follows her
and she gets in a taxi and leaves.

We cut back to Andalasia where we see Pip explaining to Prince Edward what had happened
to Giselle. Edward and Pip follow Giselle into New York. Queen Narissa is upset about this
and flirts with Nathaniel in order to convince him that he must go as well to stop Edward
from finding Giselle. Nathaniel then goes into New York City as well. Prince Edward and Pip,
who now no longer can speak, run off into traffic with Nathaniel following behind.

Robert comes back to see that Giselle has cut up his curtains to make a new dress. He then
becomes extremely angry with her, an emotion she has never seen, and the two take
Morgan to school. Robert brings Giselle to work and leaves her with the secretary while he
meets with the same divorcing couple as the day before. Narissa sees Robert trying to help
Giselle through the fish tank in the office (she pops up all over the place, wherever water is
available) and is clearly not happy.

Upon defeating a bus (what we see in the previews), Prince Edward runs off when he has
done the wrong thing and Nathaniel catches up to him and Pip. They go to lunch and
Narissa shows up in a pot and gives Nathaniel 3 poison apples. All he has to do is get her to
eat one bite and shell go to sleep. Pip hears this and tries to explain through charades to
Edward the evil plan. Sadly Edward is a little bit dense and does not understand. Nathaniel
tells Edward they should split up to look for Giselle and they go their separate ways.

Back to Giselle and Robert: At the close of the meeting, he comes to see Giselle and the
secretary tells Robert about how crazy Giselle is. Meanwhile, Giselle begins talking to the
divorcing couple and cries about the fate of their marriage when she finds out they are
separating. Robert sees she is ruining his case and brings her to Central Park where he
plans to leave her. He gives her money and says goodbye, but she gives the money away
and he catches up to her and walks with her. He asks about her Prince and she explains
they have only known each other for a day, which surprises him because he has known
Nancy for 5 years. He explains the concept of dating to her, which she has never heard of
before this. At this point Nathaniel shows up and offers Giselle a free caramel apple, which
she takes but accidentally throws when passionately talking about love. She explains how
she knows that she is in love and that loves true kiss is the most powerful thing in the world
and she wouldnt want to wait any longer for that. Prince Edward hears her singing again
and tries to chase her down, but gets run over by some bicyclists.

Giselle helps Robert make up with Nancy by sending her flowers and getting him to bring
her to a ball, which is far more romantic or spontaneous than he usually is. He explains to
her that he only wants to help Giselle and they make up. We see Edward and Nathaniel
have checked into a motel to rest. While Edward flips through channels on the magic mirror,
Nathaniel traps Pip in the closet and goes after Giselle. We catch up with Giselle and Robert
at a pizza place where she asks if they are on a date. He says that people dont bring their
children on dates and we then see Morgan is there as well. He talks to Giselle about his
wife, who left him and Morgan for no real reason, which makes him very emotional. Giselle
explains to him that his dreams still can come true and then Nathaniel appears with a free
apple martini. Robert jokes that those are poisonous and Pip shows up trying to stop Giselle
from drinking the martini. People in the restaurant see the rodent and Nathaniel traps him
again, though they do not know what had happened to him at first and Giselle gets very
sad.

Back at the hotel room, Edward sees Giselle being interviewed about the rodent attack on
TV and leaves the hotel room to find her. Upon finding the correct building he knocks on
every single door in the building, finding a bunch of interesting people at each door.

We see Giselle then telling Morgan a bedtime story while Robert watches and smiles. She
leaves the room and Robert begins trying to tell her that perhaps Edward will not come for
her after all, which she gets angry about, saying that all he ever says is no. The two share a
special moment as she is excited about feeling angry, and Robert leaves, though both of
them clearly feel a connection to one another.

We cut to Nathaniel in the pizza place at the bar where he is talking to Narissa, who is in his
drink, and she is very disappointed in him. She tells him that she is now coming to New
York to get Giselle herself, and in anger breaks all the glass at the bar including the one Pip
is stuck in.

The next morning Robert awakes to see that Giselle has made herself another dress and
smiles at this. The three sit down to breakfast when Prince Edward knocks on the door. He
and Giselle are reunited, though it is not the same between them, not that Prince Edward
would notice. She tells him that she wants to go on a date with him before they leave for
Andalasia and he agrees. She leaves Robert and Morgan, who are very sad to see her go. At
work Robert meets with the divorce clients who were touched by Giselle and have decided
to stay together. We can tell that he misses Giselle. Meanwhile, Giselle and Edward are on
their date and Giselle asks Edward to stay for just a little while longer and go to the ball but
promises him to go home after that. Giselle goes back to Morgan and tells her that she is
going to the ball, to which Morgan takes Roberts emergency credit card and the two go
shopping. They stop for a haircut and pedicure, where the two bond over not having
mothers, but enjoying their shopping time together.

Night falls and Queen Narissa arrives and heads towards the ball. We see Nancy and Robert
have already arrived as Giselle and Edward make their entrance. Robert and Giselle see
each other and the couples meet and greet. Edward introduces Giselle as the love of his life,
to which Nancy says is so bold and romantic. A dance is announced where you dance with
someone you did not bring to the ball, and Robert and Giselle dance together and seem
very happy and Nancy dances with Edward. At the end of this dance, Edward and Giselle
plan to leave and he goes to get her wrap. The old hag shows up as Giselle is sadly
watching Nancy and Robert and offers her an apple that will make her forget all the bad
memories. She bites the apple and falls asleep. The hag drags her into an elevator that she
creates and turns back into Narissa just as Edward stops the elevator. Narissa says that she
does not know what happened to Giselle, when Nathaniel shows up and explains her evil
plan. Narissa explains Giselle will die at midnight and Robert remembers what Giselle said
about loves true kiss being powerful and tells Edward to kiss her. He attempts kissing her
several times, but it does not wake her. Robert then knows that it is he and doesnt know if
he should kiss her but Nancy tells him he has to. He kisses Giselle and she wakes up and
they kiss again. Narissa is angry at how this has turned out and does not want to be
removes from the thrown because of her behavior and decides to kill them all and make up
a story about their deaths. She then turns into a huge dragon and runs up the building with
Robert in hand. Pip, who had been stuck again in a plastic gerbil ball and Giselle follow
Narissa and try to save Robert. Narissa ends up dropping Robert, who is saved by Giselle,
and then Narissa falls to her death. Giselle and Robert kiss on the roof of the building and
we go back to Nancy and Edward, both are clearly upset about what has happened. Nancy
sees that Giselle has left her shoe and Edward puts in on her foot. We see the two are also
smitten with each other.

Cut to the future

We see Edward and Nancy getting married in Andalasia. We then see Giselle running her
own line of fashions with different animals helping her make dresses. Robert is also there
and Morgan is wearing one of the dresses. We then see Nathaniel at his book signing about
his life and then Pips book signing about his time in New York City in Andalasia. The last
shot is of Robert, Giselle, and Morgan in the apartment having fun and living happily ever
after.