- "Disenchanted," starring Amy Adams (Giselle) and Patrick Dempsey (Robert), is now streaming on Disney+.
- The "Enchanted" sequel features a bunch of callbacks and nods to the first film.
- There are also references to other Disney movies.
Director and choreographer Adam Shankman has cameos as a grumpy vendor and the voices of chipmunks Kip and Skip.
The film opens with Pip, in animated form, telling his kids that New York ended up not being Giselle's happily ever after.
Early in the movie, Giselle stands on her balcony and talks to the pigeons, cockroaches, and rats of New York City.
Although she's moving to the suburbs, she tells them that change can be exciting and they'll meet new people who will love them as much as she does. Giselle also tells them that they can call out whenever they need a friend. If you listen closely, you can hear the faint tune of "Happy Working Song" from the first movie playing.
This is a callback to a scene from "Enchanted," when Giselle called out to the animals to help her clean up Robert and Morgan's messy apartment.
As the rats, pigeons, and cockroaches gathered with Giselle in the living room, she said, "Well, it's always nice to make new friends." Then they all preceded to clean up the apartment to the tune of "Happy Working Song."
Robert assures Giselle they'll make new memories in the suburbs, saying "If I learned anything from meeting a princess on a billboard is that sometimes, you just have to take a leap."
This is a reference to how Robert and Giselle first met.
When Giselle was transported to real-world NYC in "Enchanted," she saw a billboard of a sparkly castle and went up to it, thinking someone would open up.
At the same moment, Robert and Morgan saw her and exited the car to figure out what was going on. Giselle accidentally stumbled backward and fell from the billboard into Robert's arms.
The magical memory tree that Giselle gives Morgan includes photos of moments from "Enchanted."
One photo shows Giselle and Robert at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, which is where the musical number for "That's How You Know" partly took place.
Another photo references the last scene of "Enchanted," when Robert gave Morgan a piggyback ride as they ran through the house pretending to be airplanes with Giselle
It looks like baby Sofia has a dragon toy beside her in her crib.
This could be a nod to the fairy tale world of Andalasia which is inhabited by creatures like dragons and ogres.
Morgan wears a Zadig & Voltaire graphic T-shirt featuring women bosses.
The brand's woman boss shirt encourages female empowerment and women supporting women.
It's a fitting shirt for Morgan because in "Enchanted," Robert gifted his young daughter with a book titled "Important Women of Our Time." He chose to give her that book, which featured profiles of admirable women in history, instead of a fairytale book she would have preferred.
The names of the shops in Monrolasia are stuffed with nods to Disney movies.
After Giselle uses the Andalasian wishing wand to ask for a fairytale life in Monroeville, she wakes up to see that her wish came true.
Delighted, Giselle dances and sings through the town in another elaborate musical number. If you look closely at the signs for the stores, you'll notice that the names honor Disney films.
Smee's Cheese is likely a nod to the "Peter Pan" character Mr. Smee, "A Whole Food World" is inspired by the "Aladdin" song "A Whole New World," Mary Popover's Bakery might be a reference to Mary Poppins, and Bibidi Bobbidi Butchers is a nod to the "Cinderella" track "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo."
Rachel Covey, who played Morgan in "Enchanted," has a cameo as a Monrolasian girl.
She briefly appears in the scene when Giselle meets Malvina after Monroeville transforms into Monrolasia. When Malvina asks Giselle if she's doing last-minute shopping before the evening's event, Giselle asks, "What's tonight," eliciting a gasp from the crowd.
Then the girl, played by Covey, reminds Giselle that the festival is happening that night.
Alan Tudyk voices the scroll that comes to life and answers any questions about the magical wish-granting wand.
Tudyk is no stranger to voice work, having also voiced characters in Disney movies like the "Frozen" films, "Zootopia," "Moana," "Raya and the Last Dragon," and "Encanto."
Malvina peruses her cabinet for ways to defeat Giselle and stumbles upon recognizable objects from other Disney movies.
Malvina looks through her shelves during the musical duet "Badder."
Objects like the spinning wheel from "Sleeping Beauty," the bottle labeled "Drink Me" from "Alice in Wonderland," the enchanted rose from "Beauty and the Beast," and the hourglass from "Aladdin" have played parts in setting back the protagonists of those films.
Malvina even jokes about how a poisonous apple is too much of a cliche to use.
One of the memories that swirls around Morgan appears to show Giselle and Robert's wedding.
The memory shows Giselle, wearing a white dress and a veil, kissing Robert with a young Morgan standing nearby.
This is likely from their wedding day, which fans didn't see on screen due to the time jump of more than 10 years between "Enchanted" and "Disenchanted."
Malvina's minions, Rosaleen and Ruby, wear dresses that are reminiscent of the ones the step-daughters wore in Disney's 1950 animated "Cinderella" film.
In the animated film, they're named Drizella and Anastasia.
In "Disenchanted," Rosaleen is played by Yvette Nicole Brown and Ruby is portrayed by Jayma Mays.