Giselle (Amy Adams) is a firm believer in happy endings. After all, she got hers with Robert (Patrick Dempsey) ten years ago. And if that wasn’t enough, this is part of the magical kingdom of Andalazia, the place where all fairy tales come true. But even for an innocent and kind-hearted character, ordinary country life can be an almost insurmountable challenge. At least one that could lead to the worst of disasters in Disappointed: Gisele Returnswhich will be available on Disney+ from November 24th.

This simple premise underlies the belated continuation Glad to meet you, a 2007 hit directed by Kevin Lima. In fact, a significant portion of the film’s plot is based on an inevitable and cynical issue that was uncovered in the original. What happens after the princesses receive a loving kiss from the prince? When do they wake up from their enchanted sleep? Do they respawn in the arms of the duty hero? Disappointed: Gisele Returns he is self-aware enough to realize that his effectiveness lies in satire. So the story starts right where it left off. A story about the impossible, the power of love and the victory of good over evil.

For an Adam Shankman film, the answers to the above questions are obvious. The loving couple lived moderately happily in a New York apartment with a teenage daughter and another newborn until they were rocked by everyday life. Giselle, now a middle-aged housewife, is dealing with a teenager, her one-month-old daughter, and a flow of routine. Little by little, what seems to be the end of an extraordinary story turns into an almost ironic look at the ordinary. After all, the great love of princesses in fairy tales crystallized ideally. In untouched beauty.

But Giselle is on the other side of this small border. In New York, he leads a peaceful married life and struggles with the feeling that something is out of reach. “I thought happiness would be easier,” he says with curious satirical humor as he tries to deal with issues of normality. Even though the birds still visit her to sing at her window, and everything that happens around her seems capable of becoming a song.

Disney, who knows the formula that made several of his iconic films classics, is making fun of them again in Disappointed: Gisele Returns. But with Giselle, he embodies the idea of ​​the impossible. This princess who dreamed of love, who managed to defeat the evil queen, and who kisses her lover every morning, she is not satisfied. Sometimes he even seems unhappy.

Once upon a time there was a fairy tale that could end very badly

Disappointed: Gisele Returns it depends on its self-awareness to function without being wholly a vehicle for nostalgia. Slowly, the plot tries to depict the passage of time as a dissonant note in the perfection that Giselle imagines. Especially when his beloved stepdaughter Morgan (Gabriella Baldacchino) begins to turn into a teenager. The girl with whom Giselle first came into contact with the real world, perhaps the first break in his dream of love.

Per Disappointed: Gisele Returns, it’s a little trap about romantic ideals and their fragility. “Sometimes I forget that time passes quickly here,” Giselle says ruefully. Again and again, the story insists that the princess, who left the idyllic world for love, is shaken. Either because of the idea that life as you know it is about to change, or simply because of the thought of the ordinary.

After all, fairy tales remain the same over time. An idea that the screenplay by Rita Xiao, Jesse Nelson and Adam Shankman explores in terms of breaking eternal love. And again, the plot shows how Giselle’s happy life becomes somewhat opaque, as if the radiance of magic was slowly fading away. The character, which Amy Adams repeats with strained, unconvincing enthusiasm, appears bewildered and confused. Until you make a decision. “The best thing is to find your own fairy tale,” he insists, and eventually the family leaves New York.

But in the town of Monroeville, whose welcome billboard promises “fairy tales do come true,” the family’s plight is not getting better. When a dream home falls apart and Malvina Monroe (Maya Rudolph) turns into a vicious enemy, Gisele finds herself at the center of the storm. Disappointed: Gisele Returns insists that perhaps everyday life is too hard for this princess who has gone beyond “and they ate partridges”.

Finally the inevitable happens. Morgan ends up rioting, distraught, overwhelmed, and in the midst of change, she doesn’t understand either. “You are not my mother!” she screams at Giselle. And that’s when idyllic story seems to be completely destroyed. Disappointed: Gisele Returns attempts to create a rare deconstruction of its original premise. Also, using Giselle and Morgan as part of the same perception of change.

The early years of a teenager’s youth are evidence that another story has just begun. For Giselle, small changes are painful. The script plays on the idea that fairy tales can only be captivating if they remain intact. So the story of Giselle and her family comes to an end.

Back to the roots Disappointed: Gisele Returns

What happens when a wish brings the magic back into the life of a devastated princess. For your second leg Disappointed: Gisele Returns he recognizes the place where he came from and follows a path opposite to that of his original story. If in the 2007 narrative Giselle fled from Andalazia, his older version just wants to go back to an idyllic land where anything is possible. This is achieved through a predictable and gentle plot twist, which is arguably the weakest point in a convoluted plot.

Disappointed: Gisele Returns

The path becomes predictable: Giselle lives her fairy tale again. The one that was dreamed of and dreamed of as a woman in the real world. Animals can talk, magic is everywhere, and Morgan has regained her fragile naivety. However, everything comes with a price, especially when the power of Andalasia becomes unmanageable. Malvina becomes the monarch of a small and claustrophobic kingdom and Giselle is in her worst nightmare. In the great idyllic stories, not a single stepmother has a good heart, so the promise of happiness turns into a nightmare.

For your second leg Disappointed: Gisele Returns reaches its best moments. Giselle turns into a villainess so charismatic that it surprises. Robert as a hero who must fight the giants, and Morgan as a princess who can save Andalasia from destruction. But the plot wastes what could be a great parody of absolute good and inevitable evil in favor of predictable jokes. Gradually, the film loses its charm and personality in favor of the need to tell – again – its original story.

And everyone was happy, at least for a while.

Disappointed: Gisele Returns it has all the elements to dive into the witty universe of the 2007 hit, but it’s really just an unnecessary addition. Not because of a lack of effort on the part of the actors, but because of the script’s need to generalize and not dare to delve into its most brilliant ideas.

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For his final sequences Disappointed: Gisele Returns it is a strange combination of weak parody and boring joke. Perhaps the worst thing to say about a movie that was born specifically to satirize the great love stories in fairy tales.


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