I agree with most of this comment.
However, you can't just recast Amy Adams... She made the first movie. She was the first movie.
Without Amy Adams you simply should just make a new movie.
But it's true. It's mind boggling how they make the first movie a real movie. An Oscar award contender movie, with great images, scenes and acting, and then they present this movie like it's a DVD extra.
Very weak effort. They spent all the budget in the actors.
If you are going to make an Enchanted 2 with a good cast like this, you should make it a real movie, for the cinema, not a recycled garbage just to put on your streaming service.
I gave it a 5/10, eventually may lower it to a 4.
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a year ago
The problem with Amy Adams is that she's really let herself go, and aged a lot. If you can't recast her then rewrite the story and focus on the step daughter that could have been cast much better than it was. Hell when they saw Adams looked like a grandmother they could have rewritten it where she was a grandmother if they wanted to use her and then have the step daughter having a baby. I mean the original was 15 years ago and it would have been plausible to have the step daughter out of college and starting a family versus having what looked like a 50 year Amy having a young baby.
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telmarine (379)
a year ago
Amy Adams gained a slight bit of weight but overall has not let herself go. She looks great for a 48 year woman. All of the actors have aged well all things considered. The biggest issue is how long they waited between the original and the sequel; it’s just too long. The story was creative and I was happy with the CGI. Not as good as the original but I was happy with the product. I wish the prince would’ve seen more screen time but maybe that would’ve been too cliched. Who knows. 7.5/10
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a year ago
Her character was supposed to be in her early 30's based on the stated time difference between the first show... Yes she is only 48, but she looks older. And even if she only looked 48 that was still more than 15 years older than her character.
While they tried to hider her weight and age in how it as shot they didn't always do it. There a couple of scenes where they showed her arms and the crepe skin on her arms wasn't what you see on a 48 year old it was more like what you would see on a 60 year old. Maybe you watched it on a small screen, we made the mistake of doing it as a movie night on a very large projection screen and it made some things very hard to ignore.
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cyguration (3871)
a year ago
Amy Adams always looked to me that she could have been older than what she was if she wasn't careful with how she took care of herself.
Some actresses look timeless up to a certain point (like Jennifer Aniston or Jennifer Lopez). But Amy Adams always looked like she was teetering on hitting the wall even in her 20s. Brie Larson seems similar in that regard. Now she's kind of veering into looking like a redheaded version of Amy Schumer.
And you're absolutely right about her looking very.... unkempt for the kind of position she holds in Hollywood.
Typically agents/producers suggest for the top stars to get into some kind of film-shape, and you see even the older men taking that serious to the extent of trimming down or shaping up for roles where they're playing younger than what they are, or supposed to look more fit for what they're supposed to do (like Josh Brolin in Deadpool 2, or Vince Vaughn in The Brawl In Cell Block 99).
I remember seeing some recent images of Amy Adams and thinking the same thing you highlighted in your post, and I haven't even seen Disenchanted. So it's an apparent and unmistakable observation.
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