288. Enchanted

Title: Enchanted
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Year: 2007

Summary: In "Andalasia", an animated fairy tale world devoid of problems, in which there are talking animals and "happy endings", an evil queen named Queen Narissa frets that her stepson Prince Edward will soon find his true love, which means that Narissa's position on the throne would be taken over. One day, Edward and Nathaniel, Queen Narissa's henchman, successfully capture a troll, but Edward rides off to the cottage of a peasant named Giselle after hearing her sing about "true love". Knowing Narissa's wishes, Nathaniel sets the troll free to get rid of Giselle, but Edward saves her just in time. When they meet, they instantly fall in love and plan to get married the following day.

However, Narissa had witnessed everything, so she meets Giselle while the peasant runs off to get wed to Edward. Narissa successfully tricks Giselle and sends her from the cartoon world to the real live-action world of Earth, because the portal from the cartoon world was located at the sewer of the road at New York City's Times Square. Meanwhile, a divorce lawyer named Robert plans to propose to his girlfriend Nancy, much to the dismay of Morgan, his daughter. While Robert and Morgan are being driven home however, they witness a confused Giselle at a brightly lit billboard advertising "The Palace" casino, who mistakes the pink castle on the billboard image for an actual palace. Luckily, Robert rescues her after she falls off, and he lets Giselle stay their his apartment at the insistence of Morgan.

Pip, Giselle's chipmunk friend from Andalasia, witnessed Narissa send Giselle to the real world and warned Edward about it, so they escape to New York City as well to rescue Giselle. While at a hotel room, Edward luckily finds out about Giselle's whereabouts via a TV channel that she happened to show up on. However, he's unaware that Nathaniel, who had traveled to New York City due to Narissa seducing him to do so, is trying to get rid of Pip, who found out about the poisonous apple-centric plan that he and Narissa had concocted. Meanwhile, Robert decides to have Giselle stay with him and Morgan, believing that she needed his protection after wanting them to separate due to Giselle causing a falling out between him and Nancy. Giselle questions the divorce lawyer about his relationship with Nancy, and decides to help the pair reconcile by sending flowers and tickets to the "King and Queen's Costume Ball". Meanwhile, an angered Narissa plans to come to New York City after Nathaniel failed to poison Giselle twice.

As they spend more time together, Giselle and Robert begin to grow feelings for each other all the while Edward continues to look for Giselle, eventually finding her at Robert's apartment. While Edward is eager to take Giselle home to Andalasia and finally marry, she insists that they should first go on a date, reluctant to leave Robert and Morgan so soon. Giselle decides to end their date at the King's and Queen's Ball. After Nancy and Prince Edward pair off to dance, Giselle dances with Robert realizing that Robert is her true love. Edward and Nancy seem to realize the sudden attraction between Giselle and Robert, and also discover a mutual attraction between themselves. At the ball, Narissa goes under the old hag disguise she used to trick Giselle back in Andalasia and manages to poison Giselle with the last poison apple before being discovered by Edward, Robert, Nancy and everyone else at the ball.

After betraying Narissa by realizing their servile relationship of slavery, Nathaniel reveals that one must kiss Giselle by midnight to break the poison apple's spell. After Edward's kiss fails to wake Giselle up due to her falling in love with Robert, he and Nancy suggest for Robert to kiss her. Giselle awakens, but Narissa uses the distracting moment to break free from Nathaniel's grasp and transform into a dragon. When Robert protects Giselle after Narissa threatens to kill her, she takes Robert hostage instead of Giselle, who follows Narissa out the window and up to the top of the Woolworth Building. With Pip's help, Giselle successfully defeats Narissa, who falls to her death. After Robert's rescue, he and Giselle share a passionate kiss on the roof, while Edward and Nancy depart to Andalasia after truly falling in love.

After a montage of the protagonist's new lives and split up on their own, Edward and Nancy had married, Giselle runs a successful fashion business and has a happy family with Robert and Morgan, Nathaniel becomes a best-selling author on Earth, and so does Pip on Andalasia.