 Positive reviews praised the film 's take on a classic Disney story , its comedy and musical numbers as well as the performance of its lead actress , Amy Adams . Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun @-@ Times gave the film three stars out of four , describing it as a " heart @-@ winning musical comedy that skips lightly and sprightly from the lily pads of hope to the manhole covers of actuality " and one that " has a Disney willingness to allow fantasy into life " . Film critics of Variety and LA Weekly remarked on the film 's ability to cater for all ages . LA Weekly described the film as " the sort of buoyant , all @-@ ages entertainment that Hollywood has been laboring to revive in recent years ( most recently with Hairspray ) but hasn 't managed to get right until now " , while Todd McCarthy of Variety commented , " More than Disney 's strictly animated product , Enchanted , in the manner of the vast majority of Hollywood films made until the ' 60s , is a film aimed at the entire population – niches be damned . It simply aims to please , without pandering , without vulgarity , without sops to pop @-@ culture fads , and to pull this off today is no small feat . " Enchanted was the Broadcast Film Critics Association 's choice for Best Family Film of 2007 , while Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer named it the 4th best film of 2007 . 
