Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
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| Directed by | Frank Nissen |
| Produced by | Margot Pipkin |
| Written by | Steve Bencich Ron J. Friedman Eddie Guzelian Robert Reece Colleen Millea Ventimilia |
| Starring | Jennifer Hale Susan Blakeslee Lesli Margherita Corey Burton Tami Tappan |
| Music by | Alan Zachary Michael Weiner Joel McNeely |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 6, 2007 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) |
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| Portugal: | G |
| United States: | G |
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time is the second direct-to-video film sequel to the 1950 Walt Disney animated classic Cinderella, after 2002's Cinderella II: Dreams Come True. Canonically it is a continuation of the original Cinderella, rather than Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, though due to its unique chronological sequencing it acknowledges the events of Cinderella II: Dreams Come True via stills in the end credits and using characters introduced in the first sequel. The film was released on February 6, 2007 and rated G by the MPAA. The film is directed by Frank Nissen and features the voices of Jennifer Hale and Susan Blakeslee. For the UK releases of the DVD, the film is simply titled Cinderella: A Twist in Time, with no mention of it being a sequel.
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[edit] Plot
The story starts on the first anniversary of Cinderella and the Prince's wedding, where Jaq, Gus and the Fairy godmother are surprising the couple with a picnic in the woods. Back at the manor that is Cinderella's former home, her stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella are stuck doing all of Cinderella's old chores, and are clearly unhappy with their current lifestyle. Anastasia, trying to avoid working, wanders off into the woods where she witnesses the Fairy Godmother's magic in action. Unfortunately, the Fairy Godmother drops her wand and it lands in front of Anastasia.
Anastasia rushes back to her mother, Lady Tremaine, who is unimpressed by the white stick. While Anastasia is trying to prove that the wand is magical, the Fairy Godmother arrives and insists that they give the wand back. During a tussle over the wand, the Fairy Godmother accidentally transforms into a stone statue. Anastasia is regretful for what has happened, but Lady Tremaine is ecstatic at the possibilities. She takes the magic wand and reverses time, going back to the moment where things started to go wrong: the arrival of the Duke at the manor with the glass slipper. Lady Tremaine rushes the process along and uses the wand to make the slipper fit Anastasia's foot before Cinderella can make it downstairs. The Duke, seeing the slipper fit, announces that Anastasia will wed the prince, and asks for them to get ready to go to royal palace. Cinderella rushes downstairs in what was previously "the nick of time" and is confused to over the outcome. Lady Tremaine breaks Cinderella's other slipper and tells her to forget the dance ever happened. Tremaine and her daughters then leave to the palace for the wedding preparations.
However, Cinderella is convinced that the Prince will remember that it was her that he danced with at the ball. She goes to the palace in secret and manages to sneak in the servant's entrance. Elsewhere, when the Prince notices that Anastasia was not the one he danced with, Tremaine uses the wand to make him forget about Cinderella completely. The mice, Jaq and Gus, witness this event and tell Cinderella about her plot. Cinderella, disguised, manages to enter the room where her stepfamily are staying, and she attempts to distract them while Gus and Jaq steal the wand. Cinderella manages to get the wand and flees, but Tremaine sends the palace guards to stop her. Before Cinderella can break the spell on the Prince, the guards break in and take the wand from her and give it to Tremaine. Before they can evacuate her from the castle, Cinderella touches the Prince's hand, causing him to be confused by the familiar feeling. Tremaine orders Cinderella to be put on the next ship out of the kingdom.
The mice decide to take matters into their own hands and confront the Prince with their side of the story, using the other mended glass slipper as evidence. The Prince remembers everything and sets out to retrieve Cinderella before she sails off. He succeeds, the pair are reunited and the true nature of Tremaine and her daughters is revealed to everyone.
Despite this, Tremaine does not give up. She uses the wand's magic to conceal herself and her daughters when the King's guards search the palace grounds for her. As Cinderella is preparing for her wedding, Tremaine reveals herself and her new plan: Anastasia now looks exactly like Cinderella and will take the real Cinderella's place during the wedding ceremony. Tremaine then magically sends Cinderella, Jaq and Gus into the hollow center of a pumpkin back on the grounds of the manor. In a twisted homage to the original film, the pumpkin becomes a deformed carriage and Lucifer becomes its humanoid driver, intending to send Cinderella and the mice to their doom. After a frantic struggle, Cinderella, Jaq and Gus manage to escape and rush back to the palace.
Cinderella arrives at the palace just as the vows are being exchanged, and witnesses Anastasia saying "I don't" when prompted by the minister. Lady Tremaine, angered at her daughter's sudden conscience, steps out of her hiding place uses the wand to turn the guards into animals. During the struggle, the Prince uses his sword to block the wand's magic, causing it to bounce back and send Lady Tremaine and Drizella back to their house as toads. Anastasia uses the wand to turn herself back to normal and then gives it to Cinderella who revives the Fairy Godmother. The Fairy Godmother takes her wand back and creates a new wedding for Cinderella and Prince Charming, letting them live happily ever after... again. And as for Lady Tremaine & Drizella, they are turned back into humans, but are forced to wear Cinderella's old work clothes and work as servants as punishment for their evil deeds.
[edit] Voice cast
- Jennifer Hale as Cinderella
- Susan Blakeslee as Lady Tremaine
- Rob Paulsen as Jaq/The Grand Duke
- Corey Burton as Gus
- Christopher Daniel Barnes as Prince Charming
- Tress MacNeille as Anastasia
- Russi Taylor as The Fairy Godmother/Drizella
- Andre Stojka as The King
- Frank Welker as Lucifer
- Holland Taylor as Prudence
- Tami Tappan as Cinderella (singing voice)
[edit] Production
This film was Disney Australia's final feature (that studio was closed and equipment auctioned off once Cinderella III production was completed in July 2006). Unlike the previous sequel, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, which was mostly made in Japan (that studio also closed shortly after Cinderella II's completion), Cinderella III'''s animators were given meticulous model sheets and extensive live-action sequences for animation reference.[citation needed]
[edit] Soundtrack
Hayden Panettiere performed the song "I Still Believe" specifically for the end credits of this film, and a music video was recorded and attached to the DVD release. An official soundtrack has not been released.
[edit] Goofs
The film contains a number of continuity errors which are a usual occurrence in animation projects. Among these errors are:
- Bruno, Cinderella's dog from the first film does not make a return in this film.
- Pom Pom, the palace's cat from the second film does not make a return in this film.
- When Drizella and Anastasia fight during "A Perfectly Perfect Year" the aprons they're wearing disappear after they get the laundry off themselves.
- After Anastasia gets thrown out of the house, she stands up to see Cinderella and the Prince riding by on horses and she walks forward. During this her apron disappears and reappears between several shots.
- After Anastasia gets the wand Drizella is seen cutting tree pieces with an axe which gets stuck. After pulling out the handle the axe's head is pointing opposite of the house. But in the wand fight the axe's head is turned 90 degrees pointing either the chair's back or the Fairy Godmother and Anastasia.
- While Lady Tremaine was reversing time, the brief glimpse of the wedding shows the Prince wearing a white groom outfit which is different from the wedding from the first movie where he's wearing a yellow and red outfit.
- When the slipper is falling it is about to be broken with the heel in the front. But in the crash the heel and the front of the slipper have switched places.
- When Tremaine breaks Cinderella's glass slipper the front and the heel do not get broken or cracked. But when Jaq presents the put-back-together slipper to the prince we can see cracks on them. And when the prince puts the slipper down to go find Cinderella the heel does not appear broken at all.
- While Cinderella is singing she connects the two halves of the slipper's heart together. But the heart appears to be too close over the slipper's edge.
- After Anastasia gets done chasing the ring down after it bounces around the room, she puts it on her left hand. Later in the same scene, Anastasia is seen walking admiring the ring which is now on her right hand.
- When Drizella is tampering with the wand, she was able to use it without saying Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo.
- When Jaq and Gus take the wand from the dresser, the wand is pointing forward. When they run out through the door the wand is pointing backwards and stays that way.
- When Cinderella is running away from the guards, there is a shot looking down the stairs that shows a cement structure sticking out of the top of the end baluster of the rails. Later when Cinderella slides down the stairs it is not there.
- While the shrunken Lucifer is attacking Gus, red pieces appear to be tearing off his shirt. And when the attack ends their shirts appear to be in perfect condition like nothing has happened.
- When Cinderella gets on the boat, the sky is dark and cloudy. When the Prince is seen on his horse riding into a wooden house/storage to reach the boat the horse's point-of-view sees the sun shining inside the room. In the next shot when the prince is flying out the balcony door, the sky is dark and cloudy again, with no sun being seen only until he reaches Cinderella.
- In the sequence where Cinderella is back at the castle and explaining to the King and Duke what Lady Tremaine did, her hair changes from being loose, to tied up in a bow, and back to being loose.
- In the first film, Cinderella wore a black choker with her wedding dress. In this film, the brief flashback at the beginning to the wedding the choker is still there, but for the rest of the film, it is absent.
- Cinderella's wedding dress has been slightly altered, the skirt in the original was a pale grey, but white in this movie, her hair was in a low bun (also kept while wearing the wedding dress) but when in her rags during the pumpkin sequence her hair has changed to a top bun like her blue/grey ballgown.
- In the scene where Tremaine and Drizella are turned back into human, there is a cut on both aprons that they are wearing, but when Drizella gets "frightened" by the broom, the cut on her apron disappears.
[edit] External links
- Cinderella 3 DVD Official Disney Website
- [1] trailers and 8 minutes of the movie.
- Director Frank Nissen on Cinderella III: A Twist in Time Animated News & Views interview
