It is Amy Adams’ month for DVD releases. There’s “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” “Julie and Julia” and this little vehicle, “Moonlight Serenade.”

This 2005 film isn’t a mega hit release and has taken four years to find its way onto DVD, but it is a chance for Amy to stretch her vocal cords. If you’ll recall her breakout 2007 hit “Enchanted,” Amy’s got the pipes to do whatever singing she likes.

“Moonlight Serenade” gives her a shot at all of the classic jazz standards. Not as bubbly as Princess Giselle, she does A-OK.

Basically “Moonlight Serenade” is the story of boy meets girl. Boy is a successful stock broker by day and secret piano dynamo by night. Girl is a jazz club coat-check girl by night and secretly a dynamite vocalist by…even later at night. Fate brings them together, and it is hate at first sight.

Eventually, they start playing together and begin to respect each other as musicians. Once they respect each other, they start to like each other. Once they start to like each other…

Fans of Adams will really enjoy this film because it is one of her very first starring roles and a very hard-to-find movie at that.

Amy is a truly talented singer, as is her co-star Alec Newman. The problem is the two really seem to have trouble singing the same song at the same time in the same key. Both performers have their own unique stylings, and the director never seems to sit them down and give them a good talking-to, thus getting them to sync up.

The only vocal duets they do well together come at the end of the film. I see where that might have been an intentional artistic decision on the part of the director, but I find it irritating.

If I ran the zoo, I’d gladly give them all of the conflict in the world to juggle in their spoken roles, but their duets would be in perfect harmony. To me it would prove that they are phenomenally talented (which they are), and it would serve as proof that they are meant to be together, regardless of their quarrels and difficulties outside of music.

If you need evidence such a formula would succeed, you need no further proof than another Amy Adams’ hit, “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.” Again, Amy is a night club chanteuse. Again, her true love is a piano player. Even at the height of their heartbreaking near split, the duet they perform is so in sync that it tears at the audiences’ heart strings.

Regardless, the problem in “Moonlight Serenade” is a directorial one. Amy Adams is well on her way to being as “enchanting” as she’d become in 2007. True fans might really enjoy exploring her early work to see the evolution of a rising star.