Enchanted/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Actor Allusion: Ariel has a fish tank where she works.
    • And the office has a Muzak version of "Part of Your World".
    • Also, the little musical cue that strikes up when Paige O'Hara first appears sounds awfully familiar...
  • This isn’t the first time that Timothy Spall had played the lackey for an evil warlock…even if Nathaniel was braver than Peter Pettigrew ever was.
  • Also, this isn’t the first time that Susan Sarandon has played a woman that manipulates a man into doing what she wants, either.
  • Bowdlerise:
    • When this movie is aired on TV, a portion of Giselle and Morgan's conversation about "boys being after only one thing" is cut.
    • The scene where Pip poops is omitted in the Disney Channel airings of the movie, but not in the ABC Family airings.
    • The Disney Channel airing omits a scene in which Edward takes advantage of a guard's being distracted by a dog taking a leak in order to slip into Robert's apartment complex unnoticed. Instead, he is shown simply entering the apartment without havng to distract anyone first.
  • Cameo: Several previous Disney Princesses make appearances in the movie -- Jodi Benson, the physical model and voice actress for Ariel in The Little Mermaid; Paige O'Hara, the voice actress for Belle in Beauty and the Beast; and Judy Kuhn, who performed the singing voice for Pocahontas.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!: Hey, what are Cyclops, Dr. McDreamy, Janet, Maureen and Peter Pettigrew doing in this movie?
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Robert's secretary is Ariel.
    • In Spain, Giselle is two Wandas.
    • Giselle eventually left Robert, moved to Metropolis and became Superman's girlfriend
  • Ink Suit Actor: A very Justified example in the animated sequences, though the actual extent varies—Giselle's animated counterpart doesn't particularly resemble her, while Nathaniel's is such a spot-on caricature of Timothy Spall that viewers might figure out it's him before he even opens his mouth. Edward and Narissa are somewhere inbetween.
  • Shout-Out: Many, many, many to past Disney movies. The Blu-Ray DVD version even contains a special feature on them.
    • A particularly delicious one is the name of the roving reporter who tells Edward how to find Giselle, since it references the voice actresses of three Disney princesses: Mary (Costa, Sleeping Beauty) Ilene (Wood, Cinderella), Caselotti (Andrea, Snow White). To know this, of course, you'd have to be a true fan... or have no life. You make the call.
    • The scene on the rooftop at the end is reminiscent of how Frollo meets his end in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or, more generally, of the standard Disney Villain Death.
    • Non-Disney shout out: the scene [dead link] in the first third of "How Do You Know": right after Giselle picked up the band, she is running over some green meadows, singing, in a blue-white dress, arms wide-spread, with some trees in the middle-distance and a mountain of multistory buildings in the background. It's a reference to The Sound of Music and Beauty and the Beast, in the "Belle (reprise)" scene.
    • The law firm where Robert works is called "Churchill, Harline, and Smith". These are the surnames of the songwriters from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
    • According to IMDb, one of the elderly male dancers was a chimney sweep in Mary Poppins. Two others were members of the Jets in the 1961 version of West Side Story.
    • At the climax of the story, a giant creature climbs up a high New York building, holding a Dude in Distress in its paws and drops to its death. Sounds familiar?
    • According to Kevin Lima, the director, Enchanted has literally thousands of references to past and future Disney works. In particular, every person or thing that has an explicit name gets that name from another Disney film. He described the effort he and screenwriter Bill Kelly made to tie literally everything in the film into other Disney films as "an obsession".
    • The Other Wiki has a rather extensive list.
  • Throw It In: The novelization of the film provides some insight as to which lines were ad libbed. It follows pretty much the entire script of the movie and even some of the deleted scenes, so the comic material not included was most likely ad libbed. This includes a couple of the more risque lines, such as Nancy's comment about Robert and Giselle having some "grown-up girl bonding time" and Morgan's comment that "Boys are only after one thing", but nobody will tell her what it is. Morgan's "Kick what?" response to Nancy's line "Hey, girl, you ready to kick it?" isn't in the novel, nor is Edward's "I don't know what melodramatic means." And then there's this amusing exchange between Robert and Morgan when they're trying to shoo away the vermin from Giselle's "Happy Working Song":

Morgan: (holding up two rats) What do I do with them?
Robert: Get them outside! Get rid of them! Get rid of them!
Morgan: Put them back?
Robert: Put them outside! Don't put them back!

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