> 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
> believe the "It's all Disney's fault!" fairytale-bash-borscht of CGI
> Shrek-mania, and was only too happy to sell the studio down-river to it.
> The first scripts, um...WEREN'T exactly "cuddly" about their Shrek3
> "Un-PC princesses unfit to survive in our modern cynical society" gags.
> I'll spare you the horror stories.
>
> We can enjoy the irony that an originally anti-Disney movie is now being
> pushed to an audience that *WANTS* to see more "old-fashioned" Disney,
> and fans who're now hypnotized into believing they ARE seeing it.
> Well...guess that settles that question, right, Mike?--Now bring on them
> Princesses and Frogs! :-D
>
> Derek Janssen
> ejan...@verizon.net