Enchanted

I was in a meeting at the office a couple of weeks back. One of my officemates had just come back from her Scheduled Mandatory Vacation Leave. That meant ten straight days of being on leave and out of the office. I asked her how her SMVL was and she said she watched movies with her two-year old daughter. I asked her if she'd seen the movie Enchanted. Apparently, she hadn't. I offered to lend her our copy.

I was unable to find our copy at home and the next time I saw my officemate, she told me that she had gotten already gotten a hold of a copy of the movie and that she and her daughter were loving it.

The target audience is really women and children. People who don't have kids (or maybe only have boys), those who rarely go to the movies, and definitely those who only go for the action and thriller movies, are not likely to have Enchanted in their list of movies to see. But it is a fun movie. (Check out this clip about it.)

Yes, it is a Disney love story. It is the kind of movie that girls love to watch, boys cringe at, and husbands tolerate. True to its being a Disney movie, the songs in the movie are also nice. (At least MyGirl and I like to think so.)

MyGirl and I enjoy singing this song, much to the dismay of her brothers.

I wish you could have seen MyGirl that afternoon in the car. The kids were in the back seat. I played that song in the CD player in the car. Not ten seconds after the song started, GI groaned.

"Why?" I asked. "What's the matter?"

"Look at her," GI said with disgust.

I turned around and found MyGirl swaying to the music with her eyes closed in the back seat. She was having fun.

"Oh GI, leave her alone and let her enjoy the song," I said.

"In fact," I added, "I think I'll join her," as I started dancing to the music as well.

So in reply to the question asked in the song, "How do I know he loves me?" The answer to that is, among other things, he lets me sing this song out loud without groaning.