Anastasia probably hadn't had a good, kind parental figure since Cinderella's father (Ana's stepfather) passed away. I kind of hope she got to stay on good terms with the king even after the events of the movie concluded.

@@herpderp3916it seems to be that way. She actually falls in love with the baker from the second movie again, which is sweet.

I'm guessing her biological father passed when they were super young and her step father was a merchant so he wasn't around as much and he passed when they were still kids to, so his genuine kindness is something Anastasia needed. She had the potential for good and I'm glad she got that chance. There is the movie ever after where it's a Cinderella story that also has the second step child be the kinder one to help cindnerella

He seems to have become her father figure of some sort. It's really wholesome how Anastasia got a true family in Cinderella (a true sister) and in the King (a true parent figure).

​@@herpderp3916 I hope they stayed in good terms too. The way the king treated her was so kind and wholesome and I really wish Anastasia got to have someone be a good parental figure to her.

I…hadn’t thought of that. Concerning Anastasia I mean. Holy Toledo, talk about your identity crisis.

lady Tremaine’s plan was to effectively magically gaslight the prince into marrying her daughter. (Yes I am using the term correctly, the Prince was made to question his own sanity over his changed perception) Just a thing worth noticing

Wow I hadn’t thought of it that way, that is pretty dark.

Anastasia said no at the wedding so it wouldn’t have worked anyway.

​@KeiRyu-mp7ki also I think the prince could immediately tell somthing was off the moment he touched her hands, further playing into her guilt.

This would make for an _amazing_ stage adaptation

This movie was mind-blowing for me as a little kid too and the fact that Cinderella goes through so much crap in this movie scared me as a little kid and I felt so bad for her. I also love how this movie uses magic, in the first and second, magic is a good thing but in this movie, it shows that in the wrong hands, magic is powerful but can also be abused

I realized that giving Lady Tremaine the ultimate weapon for gaslighting and manipulation plays great into the story of escaping abuse

Don’t forget the meme of the prince jumping out a window

i think a chatGTP had made this movie, somehow

My mother grew up in an extremely abusive household, and she loves Cinderella for this reason. Cinderella deserves more respect, both the character and the story.

That true..cinderella the original is very good actually☺

People tend to overlook the quiet inner strength of characters, both in reality and fiction.

People may have issues with the mice who steal attention from Cinderella and don't let her show much personality and have good character development. That's why I prefer not the cartoonish disney Cinderella, but the live-action one starring Janina Żejmo (1947). Her Cinderella: 1. Has no clever animal friends, and that lets her have more screentime + makes her deal with (almost) all her problems on her own = no thoughts like "why the mice aren't the protagonist? They are better at moving the story and are more fun" 2. At the ball, she not only dances with the prince, but also helps the king with fixing his suit and entertains other guests. And thus it makes sense why the prince and the king loved her: she has shown them not only a pretty face, but also a kind, compassionate and joyful personality

exactly! cinderella is my favourite Disney princess ever and the one I relate to the most

Anastasia is probably my earliest favorite redeeming character

@@OReily08080 omg same!!

What about The Rescuers Down Under?

What do you think of Peter Pan: Return to Neverland though?

@@kermitTHEdinosaur93 It's...okay. But I didn't find it very engaging.

@@vaboston That was more of a standalone sequel than a continuation.

Only Cinderella 3 brought something worthwhile. The test are garabage

As someone who watched this one before the original I must say that id true. The basics of the movie made sense to me and I got down what I needed to from the first and loved the overall story

theyve always had the va and i love that tbh

@@alexwolf5916 He wasn't the original voice is what I mean. The fact that Eric's VA was chosen as his official replacement is so cool. In a way, I'm curious how Cinderella would sound if Ariel's VA played her instead of Jennifer Hale; she's an underrated voice actor.

@@OpticalSorcerer i love when my brain skips over words i watched this movie a few days ago and it had bugged me because i knew i've heard his voice recently as he also voices prince eric in disney dream light valley that was the connection but he also voices prince charming in cinderella 2 i just meant that they've had the same va for a minute and i found it funny/liked it

@@alexwolf5916 It's really cool. He started playing Prince Eric at 18, I think, so the fact that he's been able to keep that voice as well as playing another Disney prince is kind of a cool way of keeping it within the family.

Uhh I don’t think people hated her bc she was @bused?? I know the first movie taught at least one 5 year old (me) that no one will save you unless ur literally the most beautiful girl in the room and ur not allowed to like guys cause that makes you an ugly pick me. It taught me that only certain girls are worthy of escaping @buse. Can’t speak for others but that is why one kid didn’t like Disney’s Cinderella (at least she was allowed to be angry in the original movie-in the live action remake, it shamed victims who didn’t wanna “be kind” to their @busers. Like they didn’t even let her pound on the door and WANT to escape. All you’re allowed to do is be personality-less and passively sing to urself, without hope or assumption that anyone would recognize you:/

It made me sad they reckoned the guy for the whole film but then the credits came in and the crew said”sike we didn’t forget him.” He was so nice to someone we thought of as awful! He helped her see another side on how to love (along with Cinderella ofc) but I just wish he would’ve seen him again in the actual movie 😢

​@@sakiamira yeah that kind of made me wonder did cinderella 3 take place before the events of Cinderella 2?

Heck, just making one of the wicked stepsisters having a redemption arc was a trendsetter.

@@ishashifar I believe that Cinderella 2 came first. I remember the song that played in the credits was about believing in destiny or something. So, I think there was an underlying tone in the movie that two people who belong together will find each other (like Anastasia and the baker)

Anastasia's redemption arc is my bread and butter

That's an interesting idea! I can imagine Lady Tremaine forbidding her daughters from saying the name Cinderella as a means to dehumanize her, so the mean sister would say Cinder to refer to her as a put out fire and an object, meanwhile the nicer sister would say Ella as it still sounds like a name.

It seems to me that cinderella always gets the best treatment. It got one of the best sequel animated movies of disney and got one of the best live action movie of disney. Whoever is in charge of cinderella sure does the story justice.

Also Cinderella is Walt Disney’s (the real one) most favourite fairytale. I believe Disney choose to show respect for its OG by representing Cinderella in the best way possible

Fax

No redemption arc can even come close to Zuko's. He is my favourite character in Avatar.

Zuko’s redemption arc was so last minute and rushed. It’s like they just waited around

Also if I remember rightly she tried to do it once she saw the prince but she was arrested before she got the chance.

Dang, I never knew that was a thing. Pretty cool

​@@kaitlinowens2714 yep she did but she was stuttering at that time probably overwhelmed and as the original comment said, it's simply not in Cinderella's character to do that

True

I remembered watching this movie credit just to find out if she met the Baker again. And they did! :,D

yeah it's a clearly taken from the loony toons montra

I recall replaying that part so many times when I first played it on our desktop 😂😂😂😂

To be fair Cinderella 2 was just a ploit for a TV based on the film. Disney did a lot of cartoons based on their flimsy in the 90s.

@@nicholase82 Wait, really? 2 was another tv pilot?

@@MultiBoxingKid Pretty much. After the success of series like Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Tarzan Disney tried to turn more of its old films into TV shows. They tried to do it with Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, but Disney saw that the shows weren't that good and canceled them before they aired. But for some reason they released some of the episodes on DVD and called them a movie. And that's why Cinderella 2 is so bad, it came from a failed TV show.

You should still give it a chance, only for Anastasia's story

Cinderella 2 has with "Follow Your Heart" one of the best Disney Songs! The last refrain is the most motivating thing and I sing it whenever I need to get things done haha

Well said 👏🏽

I'm sorry but are we watching the same movie? I feel like both sequels have to bend and twist the characters so severely to make them work for their narratives that they barely resemble their source material selves. •Anastasia was just as cruel and abusive as her sister Drizella (the only thing she has going for her is a more attractive name than 🌧). Adding all this heart and deep-thinking to her suddenly in both sequels, comes so out of nowhere that it's like bad fan fiction. But people love a villain redemption story (Vegeta, Zuko, et al), so I'm not surprised they've latched onto her. •With the Prince, it goes without saying that the third film gives him humor and personality and that's great (they're essentially building on a blank foundation). It's just too bad it's kind of this 90s/00s sitcom dad humor. You almost expect there to be a canned laugh track playing after EVERY line he delivers. He doesn't feel like he belongs in this fantasy time period like all the other characters do. •The King is even worse. Yes, he's given more character but it feels diametrically opposite to his earlier depiction. In the first film, he's baby crazy, that's it, he's basic. So suddenly making him patient, compassionate, and understanding (using trite props 🐚 and rote, mechanical dead wife sob stories straight out of Screenwriting 101) is more jarring than impactful. •For Cinderella herself, I actually believe that she'd display the kind of relentless compassion/faith in humanity that'd enable her to forgive Anastasia like she does in the second film; that's kind of her thing. What I don't buy is the girl power/action hero Barbie stuff they shoe-horn her into in the third. But I get it, her main traits are "saint-like patience" and "does chores" and the Disney Princess Brand probably wanted to boost her up for modern women by giving her some agency and control over her life. Still, it just seems disingenuous for early Disney heroines like her, Snow White, and Aurora. If the Disney Princesses are indeed supposed to be role models, then it's fine to show the active fighters like Mulan, Merida, Tiana, Moana and the more caregiver-oriented ones like Cinderella. A woman doesn't need to be ALL things at all times. •Lastly, Lady Tremaine. She's one of Disney's greatest, cruelest villains. She has no superpowers, no magic spells, no real resources, just a withering glare and some intimidating words, but that's all she needs to make one person's life miserable. Her effectiveness lies in how realistic her wickedness is: she's passive in her evil, she manipulates others to do her bidding. Giving her a magic wand robs her of her of her trademark effectiveness and that's genuinely awful! Bear in mind, I'm not trying to say you're wrong: the Prince HAS more depth here and Anastasia IS someone your root for now. But these aren't simple additions "onto" their existing characters. Instead, they tore ALL of the characters in here apart down to their atoms and reconfigured them as new ones for a 2007 tween audience. At best, it's a somewhat lazy retcon; at worst, it's an act of disrespect to the original filmmakers.

​@@Unownshipperyou must be fun at parties

@@annacarolina5134 Nice comeback, hope the writers you purchased it from didn't charge too much. Look if you disagree fine, but at least have the brain power to think up your own reply. 🙄

I feel like Cinderella 3 was made with the criticism of the first 2 movies in mind. 1. “Cinderella 2 should have just been Anastasia’s redemption.” that’s the driving plot for the film. 2. “The mice are useless and just take up screen time.” the mice are actually very helpful in this time. 3. “The prince is bland and Cinderella is just a damsel in distress.” the prince is a fun character and Cinderella fights for her happily ever after. 4. “The shoe could have fitted more than 1 girl.” The prince is aware who he danced with and he said early on the shoe thing was all he had to narrow it down.

Bro this wasn’t in theatres 🫤

@@shisah5544 it actually was. That's how I got the dvd actually, there was a small contest held by a radio in Belgium right before the show began and I got the dvd like that. I remember being annoyed because I would've preferred to have gotten a VHS lol (tho I didn't say it out loud).

@@shisah5544 - Looking it up, it appears it may have been in European theaters. It also could have been a children's showing. I know that many theaters will show movies that are already out on dvd during the summer as an activity for families.

Thank you for sharing :)

Bambii 2 was great but that one went to theaters in a lot of countries. I think US was one of the few that didn't sadly. A great story about an estranged father learning to connect with his young son after the tragic death of the boy's mother and the trauma he carries from that.

Personally I think Lion King 2 is cool. I really enjoyed the romeo and juliet type of story and I think its animation is on the better side for disney's animated sequels too.

​@@ScionStorm1Bambi 2 was surprisingly good

I liked a lot of the Disney sequels at the time. Bambi 2 (I actually prefer this to the original Bambi), Lion King 2 and 1 1/2. Cinderella 2 (although mostly the Anastasia story) and 3, Lilo and Stitch where they freed many monsters, etc.

@@L16htW4rr10r same i actually grew up waiting for many disney sequels and didnt really notice the visual quality difference and didnt hate the episodic nature of some of them in fact i often preferred them over just typical movie plots (tarzen and jane, cinderella 2, atlantis milo's return were probably my faves)

The self yeeting is iconic 😂

Would argue The Jungle Book also has both, but your mileage may vary. I also didn't exactly hate Aladdin's live action movie, but certainly there were better ones...but it does have maybe the best direct-to-DVD sequel in Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

The premise feels so stupid and coming from an executive, but the writing and animation was pure gold. I was laughing so hard throughout this movie, Benjamin and Sebastian's rival were so funny.

Thank you for reminding me. It has one of my favourite villain in Disney (although I can't remember her name), I just really love her design.

Just watched Cinderella 2, and I enjoy it

They mean let Cinderella and the Prince continue on this timeline, instead of just undoing all that happened during the movie

and just like in the animated movies, live action drizella is kind of mean to her sister

Yesss

Little mermaid 2 is copy paste trash no way

@@nightmarestar9192 I enjoyed it as a kid 🤷🏻‍♂️

Agreed. Cinderella and The Lion King 2 are definitely my favorites

“I forbid you from taking another step down those stairs!!” “….. Okay” *proceeds to jump out the fucking window*

Ah yea, all of them (except Dalmatians, never watch it before) are my favorite too! And also some other things didn't mention here. I liked Tarzan 2 too, at least for the lava surfing(?) part. It's not realistic, but you can't tell me it didn't look epic.