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I thought the music in this movie was great. All of them were stuck in my head for days after watching the movie.
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Disney's Divinity wrote: Thu May 22, 2025 1:28 amNot sure what went on with Disenchanted, but the music wasn't great. Not surprised at all there was executive meddling. Tangled was also middling from him, and we know there was heavy interference there as well as TLM's live-action soundtrack where executive meddling put a major dent in that one with ludicrous lyric changes that destroyed PUS, song cuts of Fathoms Below and Les Poissons, and then the addition of songs that didn't sound anything like the rest of the soundtrack (FtFT, Scuttlebutt) although I could at least appreciate FtFT separate from the movie itself. But I think part of Disenchanted's problem was the project itself was bland just like Hocus Pocus 2 was. I imagine lackluster characters / plot make it more difficult to generate a strong musical because the songs in musicals are character- and plot-driven. No surprise the only song I liked from the film felt more like something on the radio than out of a musical (Love Power). But my unpopular opinion is even the first Enchanted's soundtrack was just alright. The only truly great song is "That's How You Know" and then the cleaning song was very cute. "So Close" is okay... Boring, but okay. Adams and Marsden sound great on True Love's Kiss even though I was never crazy about the song itself. And I can't recall if he wrote the ending song Carrie Underwood sings, but it's terrible. Enchanted and Disenchanted being parodies with very minimal plot or defined characters probably has a lot to do with it.

Tangled: The Series, Galavant, B&tB (2017), Aladdin (2019) In This Place, and Wild, Uncharted Waters + the main theme he had for Rachel Zegler in that Netflix film were proof he still had it despite this whole movie--not just its soundtrack--being a mess. I'm guessing he mostly had free reign on the TV series which is why there were so many gems from both. I believe he had to fight executives with B&tB, but he mostly won those fights which is why they made sure to punish him on the next remake by bringing in new composers to "help." Aladdin was still great though because Pasek & Paul were incredibly respectful of him despite the people at the top intending their involvement to be an insult or punishment. The TLM remake wasn't thar lucky unfortunately.
I almost completely agree! I don't think Wild, Uncharted Waters was good enough, I can't really remember how it went, and I don't like In This Place, and I've never seen all of the TV shows or the Zegler film (can you find a link to the specific song you like, I wanna hear!), BUT the rest...hellz yeah you're right on the money!
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I want executive meddling to be the best explanation for the movie, but I'll admit I don't know exactly where they went wrong. This wasn't a "Last Jedi" situation where they just made wide-scale choices that alienated the fanbase. The story was perfectly fine on paper, it all just fell flat in execution, and a large part of that was the music, unfortunately. I remember my first sign of trouble with this movie was arriving at the end of the first number and realizing I felt absolutely nothing. I blame that more on their process for their streaming movies than I do for Menken's abilities, however.
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Disney's Divinity wrote: Thu May 22, 2025 1:28 am
DisneyFan09 wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 8:35 am
Sorry, but I found all of those soundtracks superior to those from Disenchanted.
I agree, actually. Not sure what went on with Disenchanted, but the music wasn't great. Not surprised at all there was executive meddling. Tangled was also middling from him, and we know there was heavy interference there as well as TLM's live-action soundtrack where executive meddling put a major dent in that one with ludicrous lyric changes that destroyed PUS, song cuts of Fathoms Below and Les Poissons, and then the addition of songs that didn't sound anything like the rest of the soundtrack (FtFT, Scuttlebutt) although I could at least appreciate FtFT separate from the movie itself. But I think part of Disenchanted's problem was the project itself was bland just like Hocus Pocus 2 was. I imagine lackluster characters / plot make it more difficult to generate a strong musical because the songs in musicals are character- and plot-driven. No surprise the only song I liked from the film felt more like something on the radio than out of a musical (Love Power). But my unpopular opinion is even the first Enchanted's soundtrack was just alright. The only truly great song is "That's How You Know" and then the cleaning song was very cute. "So Close" is okay... Boring, but okay. Adams and Marsden sound great on True Love's Kiss even though I was never crazy about the song itself. And I can't recall if he wrote the ending song Carrie Underwood sings, but it's terrible. Enchanted and Disenchanted being parodies with very minimal plot or defined characters probably has a lot to do with it.
Agreed. The problem with Disenchanted`s soundtrack was that it was good, but not great. Even More Enchanted was cute enough, but frankly felt too safe and conventional. The same could be said about the rest of the songs. Love Power was fine enough, but frankly, the song was basically a rewrite of I See the Lights from Tangled (and that song was frankly superior to Love Power). Badder was just meh. And I agree about the soundtrack of Enchanted, as it wasn`t great. That's How You Know was the truly great song. The rest of the songs were alright, even though So Close had a very derivative and traditional melody. Most people seems to hate Ever Ever After (Carrie Underwood`s song), but I didn`t hate it. It was fine, but still not particularly memorable or distinctive. But frankly it seemed better as an end credits song, as opposed to being in the movie itself.
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I saw the movie again because I only saw it when it came out. This time I watched the movie in original version and not in Spanish (the songs were really bad adapted). The soundtrack is bad but I liked the script a little bit more. The problem with the soundtrack is that the songs doesn't feel connected, you can't feel any harmony in the soundtrack. More enchanted song is all right and I would say that it's one of the bests songs. Love power feel weird to me. It's a song that in my opinion doesn't apport anything to the story and I had the feeling that it was made only to give a song to Indina.
Another thing that I didn't like again is the animation. It doesn't seem fluid and looks cheap. There's much difference between the first movie designs and the sequel's. Indina looks really weird and I think that they made a big mistake drawing the cheeks on her. Her costumes are really bad and in the real world are even worse. The crown looks really cheap (Giselle's one too) and she looks like a staff from an historical theme park. The pants that she wears under her gown are really awful too.
The artworks that we can see in the storybook or in Giselle's tree look really cheap too. Like made for somebody who's starting to illustrate in photoshop or procreate.
However I spend a good time watching it. Amy is brilliant as Giselle and I love her wicked side and how she turns from one side to another in a few seconds
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