Enchanted

Nobody who saw Amy Adams's heart-melter of a performance in the 2005 indie film Junebug could fail to be a fan, and she's the only decent thing in this overhyped family movie covered in a cellophane shrink-wrap of corporate Disney plastic-ness. The film begins with a pastiche of old-school Disney animation: a fairy princess called Giselle (voiced by Adams) is cast out by the wicked witch (voiced by Susan Sarandon) and finds herself in live-action New York City; scampering around in her princess dress she is befriended by dishy single dad Robert (Patrick Dempsey). There's a funny opening song in which Giselle summons up the rats and bugs to clean Robert's messy apartment - like Snow White or Mary Poppins - but having allowed itself this one moment of playful subversion, the film assumes a beady-eyed and deeply humourless sentimentality.