YMMV / Disenchanted (2022)

• Just Here for Godzilla: Since 2D Disney animation has seldom been featured to a great extent in the more recent films, there are some people who have come to check out this movie for the 2D animated segments.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: It takes over thirty minutes for the wish that turns the world into a fairytale to be made and longer for the true dangers to emerge, leaving little time to actually develop the fantasy world.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • By pure coincidence, to Witches Abroad. A deconstruction and parody of fairy tales tropes and cliches where the villain is the wicked wielder of a magic wand who forces people into story roles that transform them in body and soul, and where the climax is centered around a ball coupled with the recognition of parenthood. Both have their plot started by the gifting of a magic wand, both have an evil cat sidekick, and both find a way to prevent the "last stroke of midnight" rule by just messing with the clock.
  • More directly, to Once Upon a Time. Where to begin? A small town in which live fairytale characters and that gets overtaken by magic? Check. The plot relying heavily on characters gaining back their memories to return to their real identities? Check. Travels between worlds and loads of Disney references? Check. Exploration of what it means to be the "normal" daughter of a magical fairytale princess? Check. A duel of "badness" between an evil magical queen and a wicked red-haired woman jealous of her? Check. The effects of a wish changing reality and massively transforming the heroine's personality? Check.
  • It also shares a lot of DNA with Disney's direct-to-video sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time of all things, which also featured a wicked stepmother getting hold of a magic wand and using it to rewrite things in her favour. The fairytale version of Morgan being a Cinderella expy only re-enforces the parallels.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Giselle confessing that she used to feel like she was good at things, and just wants a fairy-tale life where everything is easy.
  • Morgan, now a teenager, has clearly been hit hard with abandonment issues from her biological mother. She desperately wishes Giselle were her birth mom and lashes out because of this.
  • As Andalasia dies, Nancy sees Edward, still in Andalasia, begin to die alongside their home. All the pair can do is reach for each other, unable to touch, while a devastated Nancy can do nothing to save him.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Amy Adams has received lots of praise for her Wicked Stepmother performance, but the movie as a whole has mostly received negative reviews. The consensus seems to be that Giselle becoming a villain was a great idea that deserved a movie more in-line with the satirical tone of the original.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Giselle magically making Monroeville more like her old home could have easily allowed for an effective flip of the first movie's dynamic, forcing Robert, Morgan and everyone else from the real world to adjust to a fairytale setting like how Giselle previously had to adjust to theirs. Instead, Giselle's wish essentially brainwashes everyone into playing their assigned fantasy roles as if they've always lived this way, meaning we never get to see how their real selves would actually react in this new environment.
  • If Morgan had been the one to make the wish, perhaps unhappy with her new suburban life and wanting a fairytale life like her mother describes, that would have given her the opportunity to learn to appreciate what she has as well as justifying why she needs to be the one to fix things. As it is she's essentially a Pinball Protagonist, brainwashed into playing a Cinderella role she didn't want and fix a wish she didn't make.