From the beloved, best-selling series of books comes an extraordinary fantasy adventure, revealing the unseen world that exists all around us. From the moment the Grace family moves into a secluded old house peculiar things start to happen. Unable to explain the accidents and strange disappearances, the Grace children, Jared, Simon and Mallory start to investigate and find the unbelievable truth of the Spiderwick Estate and the amazing creatures that inhabit it.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li join forces to release a masterpiece with a few flaws, but nothing to discourage anyone from seeing this movie. These two friends that have been waiting to make a movie together have dual starring roles in this epic adventure of action and mythical chemistries. Jackie Chan plays an elderly Bostonian shopkeeper and a "drunken master" for who wine is an elixir of strength. But he demonstrates more than just the drunken fist. Li plays a monk well-versed in the martial arts and, even more magnificently, appears as the wiry, mischievous Monkey King, a mythical Chinese figure with the ability to transform himself into 72 different animals or objects. The Monkey King is part of the immortals in this movie. He is invincible after fighter all takers and never losing. It is only after another immortal tricks him that he is cast stone but before being cast into stone he casts his famous fighting pole away as the key to release himself from his stone prison. And their starts the story.
I was a little disappointed with all the wire work in the beginning of this story. I remember thinking not another fake martial arts story with people being able to walk walls and jump onto 10 story building with one leap, but after the first scene there wasn't much more of this. Most of the fight scenes looked very authentic and took a lot of skill to perform. Jackie and Jet Li skills are flawless with skills that are extraordinary to say the least. Even if the fight scenes were scripted it would still take a lot of skill to make every scene look like the individual has been doing the art for all their lives.
As for blood and gore, this movie did not have a lot of this. Not to say there wasn't any but it was minimum and well placed. Personally I loved this movie. Not because I am a martial arts fan, but mainly because it had a very good story line that made some sense. I would truly recommend this movie for rental or watching it while it is in the movie theaters. It is extraordinary on the big screen.
What can I say about this one. One thing that I can say is that Disney definitely thinks outside of the box. To take a long lasting love story, re-invent it and drop it right smack in the middle of New York. But not only that; instead of keeping with the same old musical format were everyone is nice and willing to give everything in the drop of a moment, they change that. Some people are actually mean. Not just the evil step mother and her infatuated counterpart, but the extras, the fillers.
When I look at movies and review them I try to look at the movie and it entertainment value. Does this movie keep my attention? Does it make me laugh? Do I get deep feeling of love or hate during the movie. Well, I have to say that I got every emotion that I previously described out of this movie. I got hate when Nathaniel, the evil princes’ minion, kept trying to dispose of Giselle, the prince true love. I felt happiness when the prince came to rescue Giselle. I felt nervousness when I thought the prince would never find Giselle. But the strongest feeling of all came when Queen Narissa was introduced as the evil step mother who did not want to give up her throne.Enchanted had a lot of ups and downs. But the movie kept on movie me along. I did not find any parts that I just lost interest in. This is also a movie that the whole family will enjoy. Not just the children but all the adults should enjoy this one. This is definitely a rent or buy. For me I chose to buy it, especially since it is a Disney movie. They tend to pull these off the rack after a while and I did not want to miss having this one in my collection.
