> "Enchanted" led the boxoffice with a $34M take from Friday to Sunday.
> That's smaller than the $38M first weekend of "Bee Movie". But it's five day
> Thanksgiving weekend boxoffice of $49,060,281 is the second largest for that
> holiday period ( not factoring in inflation ). Further, "Enchanted" wound up a
> huge hit with critics, with a 93%% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.:
>
> http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enchanted/
>
> Let's see how all this strong word of mouth propels this movie.

> Juan F. Lara wrote:

>> "Enchanted" led the boxoffice with a $34M take from Friday to Sunday.
>> That's smaller than the $38M first weekend of "Bee Movie". But it's five day
>> Thanksgiving weekend boxoffice of $49,060,281 is the second largest for that
>> holiday period ( not factoring in inflation ). Further, "Enchanted" wound up a
>> huge hit with critics, with a 93%% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.:

>

>> http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enchanted/

>

>> Let's see how all this strong word of mouth propels this movie.

>
> Haven't seen the movie yet, so I'd need some serious convincing that the
> whole push for "Gee, what a cuddly, sugar-coated tribute for Disney to
> pay to itself!" isn't one of the biggest wishful-thinking Disney-fan
> mass-hysteria con-jobs since Beauty&Beast got an Oscar nomination.
>
> Some of us have longer memories, and can remember how this project
> started back during the days of "Rapunzel Unbraided", when Eisner fell
> so far into post-Atlantis/Treasure panic, even *he* was starting to ...