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The oldest, Jane (Jillian Shea Spaeder), has a chance to perform in her schoolвЂ™s show choir, but her crippling stage fright prevents her from taking a solo.

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One of the most endearing sequences of the movie happens when Eleanor takes MackenzieвЂ™s daughters to the park. Still, Eleanor finds a way to bring happiness into the real world, and Maguire captures this by focusing on moments where Eleanor elevates real life instead of coming up with a magical solution. ItвЂ™s not just that Eleanor isnвЂ™t that great at being a fairy godmother itвЂ™s also that her ideas of what Mackenzie needs - ie, shacking up with a hot man will lead to her happily ever after - are a bit antiquated. When she magically redecorates MackenzieвЂ™s house, it looks like the garish interior of a Medieval Times. She tries to conjure up a ball gown for Mackenzie, but it ends up being a giant sleeping bag. Even when she does try her hand at a little magic, it falls flat. Unlike EnchantedвЂ™s Giselle, whose magical singing voice and command over adorable city creatures charmed even the most cold-hearted of would-be divorcees, Eleanor isnвЂ™t as charismatic sheвЂ™s awkward and overwhelming. Godmothered eventually finds its own spin on the jokes by speaking to a fresher theme. At first, every zinger out of EleanorвЂ™s mouth sounds like a rehashed joke about the Disney fairy-tale canon - haha, isnвЂ™t it so funny that real life isnвЂ™t like fairy tales? Eleanor thinks all cars are pumpkins turned into carriages, that mice should be the ones driving, and that strange men on the street are secretly princes. Eleanor is a blithe spirit fish-out-of-water who wanders Boston in a poofy ball gown, making similar observations as Amy AdamsвЂ™ Giselle.

In the beginning, Godmothered plays like a straight-up reboot of Enchanted. Eleanor, however, is determined to bring magic into MackenzieвЂ™s life, so that she can find her вЂњhappily ever afterвЂќ and prove that fairy godmothers are still valuable. SheвЂ™s a little late though - Mackenzie, the girl who wrote the letter, is now a single mom (Isla Fisher), jaded by romance and her clickbait-churning local news job. Godmothering has gone out of vogue, so in order to prove that the world still needs fairy godmothers, Eleanor journeys to Boston, following a letter penned by a little girl.

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The Disney Plus original, from Bridget JonesвЂ™ Diary director Sharon Maguire, follows a fairy godmother-in-training named Eleanor (Jillian Bell) who lives in a magical realm known as the Motherland.