Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (Video 2002)

Jacques and Gus tell the story of how Cinderella becomes a princess but loses touch with herself.

Director:

John Kafka

Writers:

Jill E. Blotevogel (screenplay), Tom Rogers (screenplay),

Stars:

Jennifer Hale, Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen

7 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Jennifer Hale	...	Cinderella (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Anastasia / Pretty Woman (voice)
Rob Paulsen	...	Jaq / Baker / Sir Hugh / Grand Duke / Bert / Flower Vendor (voice)
Corey Burton	...	Gus / Mert / Stable Hand (voice)
Holland Taylor	...	Prudence (voice)
Susanne Blakeslee	...	Lady Madonna Tremaine (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Pom Pom / Lucifer / Bruno (voice)
Christopher Daniel Barnes	...	Prince Charming (voice)
Andre Stojka	...	The King (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Russi Taylor	...	Fairy Godmother / Mary Mouse / Beatrice / Daphne / Drizella / Countess Le Grande (voice)
Susan Yezzi	...	Additional Voices

Storyline

The movie explores Cinderella's "happily ever after" life as a princess in 3 stories, with help from the Fairy Godmother. First, Cinderella's awkward first days at the palace, when she tried so hard to fit in that she forgot to be herself. Second, how Jaq felt so left out that he wished to be a human. Third, how Cinderella taught one of her nasty step-sisters how to smile which leads to her own true love.

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Plot Keywords:

cinderella | princess | fairy godmother | mouse | stepsister | 

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Taglines:

The Magic Didn't End At Midnight!

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Genres:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Romance

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Certificate:

G

Details

Official Sites:

Disney DVD site [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 February 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Askepot 2 - Drømmen bliver til virkelighed

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Television Animation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

73 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film is split into three stories, with interstitial content before and after each story. The three stories are "Aim To Please" (focusing on Cinderella hosting her first palace ball), "Tall Tail" (in which the mouse Jaq wishes to be human to help Cinderella), and "An Uncommon Romance" (in which Cinderella's stepsister Anastasia, with Cinderella's help, aims to wins the heart of the town baker, much to the dismay of the Wicked Stepmother.)

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Quotes

[last lines]
Cinderella: Oh, look! We're all in here, and these our stories.
[reads aloud from book]
Cinderella: "Once upon a time, there was a big castle, and in this castle lived a prince and a princess..."

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Crazy Credits

The mice appear throughout the end credits.

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Connections

Referenced in That Fellow in the Coat: A Look Back at Disney's Sequels (2010)

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Soundtracks

"Put It Together"
(Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo)
Music by Michael Bradford, Mack David, and Al Hoffman
Lyrics by Michael Bradford and Jerry Livingston
Performed by Brooke Allison
Background vocals by Brooke Allison and Gina La Piana
Produced and Arranged by Michael Bradford
Brooke Allison vocals produced by Michael Blakey
Strings arranged and conducted by Paul Buckmaster
Recorded and mixed by Cary Butler and Frank Wolf
Brooke Allison appears courtesy of Inc. Virgin Records America/2K Sounds

User Reviews

At the very least, it's *different*.

Of course the animation is really bad, and it's not a deep movie, but at least the writers put some thought into the story and didn't just go with the standard. (Cinderella and her still-unnamed Prince have a daughter who falls in love with a peasant, and they have to convince the king that she should be able to marry him and not be forced to marry someone of royalty. Can anyone say 'Aladdin'? Ugh.) This movie is made of three separate stories instead of just one long yawn factory like some others I can think of (Cough. Hunchback 2. Return to Neverland. Cough.) so there is a lot more opportunity for variation and character interplay. They even involve a dour governess named Prudence (very nice to see a black-clad miser in a Disney film who is stodgy and stuffy instead of thoroughly evil.) and give one of the stepsisters a story of her own, and do something with Lucifer except having him be the (you guessed it) black, evil cat who does little but chase the mice. Even Jaques gets a place in the spotlight, and there are happy endings all around as everyone falls in love. No.. not a deep movie, but it isn't boring, either. There is enough happening here to hold your interest, and that's saying a lot for a Disney sequel these days. The only real failing is that they selected quite possibly the most "edgy" and downright obnoxious Hip Hoppish singer to warble some songs that would have sounded fine otherwise.. Some of the tunes and lyrics are actually quite good, but there's so much "groove" and "attitude" going on that any charm is completely lost -- And if that's how they sound *now*, you can imagine how much this music is going to grate on the ears in a decade or so, when Hip Hop has long since gone the way of disco and vinyl and VHS... Seriously, can't anybody just SING anymore? I will be really happy when the people at Disney realize that lavishing modern sound on their (ahem) "masterpieces".. only hastens their descent into the post-modern doldrums of such films as 'Oliver & Company' and 'Aladdin'. I'm sure I'm not the first to cringe upon hearing Cinderella say 'EEYew' with all the pouty, adolescent inflection of 2001's cohort of sexed-up, belly-baring Britney wannabes.