Disney does it again with a feel good Christmas movie that takes places in Boston. Eleanor (Jillian Bell) who can't carry a tune in a bucket is a Fairy Godmother in training at a school that faces shutdown due to lack of business. As a student she takes it upon herself to help young Mackenzie (Isla Fisher),but to her surprise is all grown up with her own children and works for a news station. Unfamiliar with the world and slang, Eleanor is determined to help.

Enjoyable film for everyone.

Fairy godmothers live in the world of Motherland. Eleanor Fay Bloomingbottom (Jillian Bell) is a new recruit and it's been a long time since any godmother has gone on a mission. She decides to steal an assignment. Instead of a 10 year old girl, she finds struggling middle-aged single mother Mackenzie Walsh (Isla Fisher).

This movie needs to steer into the premise much harder. She's a fairy trying to remake fairy tales in Mackenzie's life. Do it more. She needs to keep stealing one shoe and giving it to random guys. Hugh is too milk toast. He needs to be more, more idiotic, or more charismatic, or more gay, or more anything. He's too bland. Eleanor should have put Mackenzie in a tower and Rapunzel her hair. That would lead to her going to the salon and doing the makeover. I'm great with her doing her own makeover but it needs to go over the top. It would have been funny if she's struggling to carry her hair around town. The family could live in a small house and Eleanor turns it into a mansion with Mackenzie becoming Cinderella. (BTW how do they afford such a big house in Boston?) Speaking of Cinderella, there is the constant carriage attempts. I really like this comedic bit and even the watermelon bit. It would be funnier if she still fails at the end. I like that when they get in, it doesn't go. That's why they should stuff themselves into an Uber. The point of the movie is that Eleanor keeps trying to magically change Mackenzie's life into a fairy tale. The only time that she succeeds is when she tries something real with her heart like street-performing with Jane. Quite frankly, Jane is the emotional nugget of this movie and the movie needs to also steer more into her story. For one, it needs to show her failed performances. All in all, this has an interesting premise with some limited laughs. It could have excelled if it fully committed to the premise.

Well, I wasn't really expecting much from the 2020 movie "Godmothered", with it being what was seemingly a run-of-the-mill Disney production. But still, as I hadn't already seen the movie and had the chance to do so, of course I found myself sitting down to watch this 2020 movie from writers Kari Granlund and Melissa K. Stack.

First of all I must say that "Godmothered" was indeed an archetypical Disney movie, but at the same time it managed to deviate enough from the blueprint that it was its own unique movie experience. I liked how director Sharon Maguire was poking fun at the genre itself with this movie.

Now, I am not particularly much familiar with actress Jillian Bell, but I will say that she definitely put on a memorable performance in "Godmothered"; a performance that was enough for me to take notice of her skill and talent. But aside from Jillian Bell, the movie also had the likes of Jane Curtin and Isla Fisher on the cast list.

The storyline told in "Godmothered" is a lighthearted one, and it is a story that has enough heart and laughs to provide proper entertainment from start to end. And the writing of the story was done in a very nicely manner, because the story progressed quite nicely throughout the course of the movie.

If you want to watch a Disney movie that isn't the normal typical sugar-coated dribble that Disney has been known to dish out, then "Godmothered" is a good choice, because it feels like a Disney movie while at the same time offering something that deviates from the archetypical Disney formula.

My rating of "Godmothered" is a six out of ten stars.