HAPPILY NEVER AFTER (DVD) (WS/ENG/ENG SUB/SPAN/SPAN SUB/5.1) DVD

Happily N'Ever After
Cinderella's wicked stepmother has tipped the balance of power towards the dark side in Fairy Tale Land, and now it's up to the put-upon princess to restore order and ensure that good triumphs in an animated adventure featuring the voices of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sigourney Weaver, and George Carlin. For years the Wise Wizard has worked hard to ensure that the scales of Good and Evil were always well-balanced, but as with any hard worker the Wise Wizard needs a relaxing vacation every once in a while. When the Wise Wizard goes on holiday, his faithful assistants Munk and Mambo make the crucial mistake of allowing Cinderella's wicked step-mother Frieda come into possession of their master's magical staff. With time fast running out before Frieda casts a shadow of darkness and sorrow over Fairy Tale Land, Cinderella must now awaken from her romantic dreams to take on her fearsome step-mother with a little help from her best friend Rick, and a virtual army of heroic dwarves and fairies. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast Sarah Michelle Gellar as Ella Freddie Prinze Jr. as Rick Andy Dick as Mambo Wallace Shawn as Munk Patrick Warburton as Prince Humperdink George Carlin as The Wizard Michael McShane as Rumpelstiltskin Sigourney Weaver as Frieda Terrence Evans as Kathy Lamkin as Marietta Marich as Cyia Batten as Lew Temple as

Crew Dino Athanassiou - Animation Director Ruth Lambert - Casting J. Chad Hammes - Co-producer Paul J. Bolger - Director Ringo Hess - Editor Rainer Soehnlein - Executive Producer John McKenna - Line Producer Paul Buckley - Composer (Music Score) James L. Venable - Composer (Music Score) Liz Gallagher - Musical Direction/Supervision Deane Taylor - Production Designer David Dulac - Cinematographer John H. Williams - Producer Robert Moreland - Screenwriter Robert Shoup - Supervising Sound Editor Louise Goodsill - Co-Executive Producer Carl L. Woebcken - Co-Executive Producer Ralph Kamp - Co-Executive Producer

Happily N'Ever After
Just when you thought the Shrek movies had said all there was to say in the genre of self-aware animated fairy tales, along comes Happily N'Ever After, which adds -- well, not much more, but enough to be worth making another movie? It's debatable. In terms of its financial resources, Vanguard Animation's Happily N'Ever After is more in line with the previous year's Hoodwinked, from Kanbar Animation. In other words, it's not really fair to compare it to a Dreamworks production like Shrek. The digital animation is relatively crude, the songs are bargain basement thefts (Sopranos theme Woke Up This Morning is ripped off as a villain's march), and the vocal stars are the perennial B-list pairing of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. -- 'nuff said. This Cinderella redux sputters out of the gate, with a heavy dose of Prinze's jokily self-referential narration, and a definite has-been quality to the scenarios. Even the supporting vocal talent seems pretty musty -- Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick and Wallace Shawn are not only veterans of multiple animated movies, but have also played these same characters in those movies (a vapid stuffed shirt, a weaselly sidekick, a neurotic sidekick). But Happily N'Ever After does find its pace a bit in the second act, literally taking flight when a bunch of witches board their motor-powered broomsticks, trailing clouds of colored exhaust as they attack Snow White's cottage, defended by a combat-ready Seven Dwarfs. Their aircraft is not particularly original, either -- Harry Potter and the Star Wars films are both heavy influences -- but at least the context is somewhat new and interesting. In the end, that's the best Happily N'Ever After can hope for -- to find occasional bursts of originality within a played-out framework. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English, Spanish Subtitle Options: English, Spanish Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel Additional Features: Happily N'Ever After? - alternate ending Deleted scenes: Lost in Fairy Tale Land 3 fun featurettes: Journey of the Characters in the Enchanted Forest, Creating the Happily Story: Bringing N'Ever After to Life, From Storyboard to Fair Tale: A Comparison Director's commentary 5 games from the Department of Fairy Tale Security: Choose Your Own Fairy Tale Ending, Munk's Fairy Tale Fix, Mambo and Munk's Magical Matchmaker, Mambo's Memory Mix-Up, Create Your Own Witch's Broom 16x9 widescreen version English and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital audio English and Spanish subtitles Trailer gallery DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1: Alternate Wide Screen MPAA Rating: PG DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 87 min   DVD Chapters: Disc #1 -- Happily N'Ever After [WS] 1. Introduction [1:48] 2. The Low Down [4:23] 3. The Royal Invitation [2:29] 4. Your Highness [3:00] 5. With Friends Like That [1:54] 6. Let's Get You Ready [5:01] 7. How a Prince Must Behave [3:52] 8. Perfect Princess [4:40] 9. Where Did That Maiden Go? [5:26] 10. We Need to Find Him [6:02] 11. Empress of Evil [2:14] 12. It Was Worth a Try [6:44] 13. Initiating Primary Defense [2:40] 14. We Got Witches [5:31] 15. I'll Go Look for Him [4:00] 16. Happy Endings Are Boring [4:23] 17. There's the Dashing Prince [3:28] 18. We're Cool, We're Low [6:00] 19. I Had One All Along [3:05] 20. Credits [10:05]