Disney Princess - A Christmas of Enchantment
Starring: Disney Princess-Christmas of EnchantmentStudio: Walt Disney Video
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release: November 1st 2005
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DVD Review
What if Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Ariel, and Jasmine hung out in their own little girl group? The result would be the Disney Princess series, which brings the six heroines together for new learning adventures. In A Christmas of Enchantment, however, you don't get to watch the princesses in a fairy-tale holiday journey. You get to watch the princesses watch (make sense?) various stolen scenes from Beauty and the Beast: The Enchantment Christmas and Sleeping Beauty. (That scene where Aurora dances through the forest? They've Christmas-tized it by setting it to "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.") Throw in a couple classic cartoon shorts, a "Twelve Days of Christmas" sing-along, and bam! You've produced this DVD. If your child is in love with Disney princesses, best run out and buy the special edition of Cinderella instead of this re-packaged montage. - Ellen A. Kim.
User Reviews
Not worth the money..... - Rating: 2/5
My 3 year old was so excited to see that they had come out with a princess christmas movie so as soon as it came out, we rushed out to get it. Within minutes she was bored with the old clips and even found a few scenes scary. She has never watched it again and it was a waste of money in my opinion. I would not recommend for a disney princess lover as its not what you think.
VERY CLEVER - Rating: 4/5
Disney took alot of old clips from many Princess Classics and mixed it in with some new songs and new clips about Christmas. My three year old watched it 3 times today and loves it. I think its a little boring but what does that matter? She finds it very entertaining. Its worth the $13. Buy it for your princess.
My Vote is For Truly Enchanting! - Rating: 4/5
I'm game for most things Disney, so when I saw "Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment," I thought it was worth a look. I wasn't disappointing, this is a great DVD for the holidays.
This DVD features a packaging of content wrapped around theatrical stage and narration by the Disney princesses. It also includes a couple of neat songs from them, such as a Disney princess version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
The stories are generally things that have been seen in past productions, but since I hadn't seen of it before, I enjoyed it and it made me want to check out some more of it. My favorite was the content from "Beauty and the Beast: An Enchanted Christmas." This is a sweet story about the time Belle put together a Christmas celebration during the time when the castle was still under the spell. This is a shortened version of the tale, but is told very nicely by Belle and it's a good edit. The other story featuring a Disney princess was a Christmas tale (I believe pulled from one of the learning DVDs.) about how Ariel and her friends celebrated "Chrissymas." It's a cute, funny little story.
The other content is stuff that some people may call old and boring, but I call classic. It includes a silent (as in no dialogue) retelling of the story of the Tin Soldier and a few other such classic Disney pieces, some silent, some not. This was stuff largely made in the early Disney days and while it lacks some of the flash of today's films, the stories are still strong. While I enjoy today's animation, you have to work with what you have, and these are a great example of doing the best with that.
So, if I truly think this DVD is enchanting, then you may be wondering why I gave it four stars and not five. That would be because of the special features. While this DVD does have a couple half-way decent special features, I believe DVDs must have truly great special features in order to earn a five-star rating from me.
Very Disappointing - Rating: 1/5
My wife and I thought this DVD would be all Christmas songs along with Princesses either singing them or dancing, but boy, were we wrong. It has bunch of real boring cartoons that they hardly give you any warm feeling about Christmas.
2.5 Stars - It Was Just OK. - Rating: 2/5
My daughter, almost 2 1/2, is really, really into the Disney Princesses. I encourage her to notice that they are smart, kind, generous, etc. and not so much on the "princess" part. I expected a lot from this DVD, since it was the big holiday release, but in all honesty, my daughter got really bored, really fast, and I honestly can't blame her. The Snow White story, though cute and very retro, wasn't a real attention grabber and had no educational value at all. Truth be told, she liked the last story best and only because the horses saved the day! It wasn't the worst, but wasn't the best either. Save your money and buy Rudolph instead.
