Best movie ever!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I will always love this movie. The romance and chemistry between the two main characters are great! I love how sweet and simple it is and I love the animation in it and it looks like a real fairy tale. The music and songs in this movie are so great as well. I love that we get to see the characters as children and then grow into adults. This movie will always be a part of my childhood.

I have always passed up the offers of watching The Swan Princess because I had the impression that it was a cheap Disney rip-off of inferior quality. I have also avoided other animated films, such as Anastasia, for the same reason. Recently I became unemployed so had more free time and on a whim I decided to watch Anastasia, expecting it to be a cheese fest which would leave me cringing and rolling my eyes. Car crash TV if you will, which I was in the mood for at the time. To my surprise I absolutely loved it. Well, it is clearly not one of the best movies of all time, but I can't deny that it is one of my favourite animated movies. Which brings me to The Swan Princess: my surprise at enjoying Anastasia so much encouraged me to give this movie a go. I regret this decision.The animation is sub-par. Honestly, you'd think they could have made it look a little less like a My Little Pony episode and more of the quality of their main competitors, Disney. Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't looking for animation of say Aladdin quality. Anastasia's animation isn't that good either after all, and that didn't affect my enjoyment. In this case though it really is just like a cheap cartoon which in turn makes me feel like I'm watching something aimed solely at little children rather than an animated movie for all ages (such as Disney movies or indeed Anastasia, which I feel I'm starting to gush about).The songs are awful. No joke. Again to use Anastasia as a comparison: A's songs aren't the best, but they are more mature I guess. I don't mean lyrically, I mean in sound and indeed in how they are performed. SP's opening song is abysmal. "This isn't my idea of fun" indeed. Using a song for a montage showing time passing is a fine idea, but the song needs to be decent and well..the singers should have decent voices too. The kids singing these parts were awful. For an example of how to do that type of scene right, see Do You Want To Build A Snowman? from Disney's most recent release, Frozen. I would continue but there's only so many ways I can say that the songs suck.The story. Oh I could accept this story maybe if the animation and music were better. It is one cliché after another, with one boring cardboard cut out character after another. I didn't like either Odette or Derek for various reasons, in Derek's case he's just a class A pillock and I found myself rooting against him. Odette is just boring, no wonder he only liked her for her looks. "What else is there?" is a fair question when you consider who she actually is. A pretty face. Allegedly anyway, she's not the best looking animated character I've ever seen. But I digress. The villain was also stupid and made no sense. He wanted to take over the kingdom but refused to just take it, even though the king was dead and his heir had vanished?! No, he wanted to do it legally by marrying Odette. Stupidest villain I can think of, he didn't deserve the kingdom by that point. At least other villains have decent plans! All in all, I was so disappointed by this movie. I'm not sure if it is aimed at a wide audience or solely at children, but in my opinion if they were attempting a movie which would appeal to a wide range of age groups, they certainly misfired on this one. I cannot see what this movie has which would appeal to anyone over the age of 8. Disney it most certainly is not. And there I was thinking Disney try-hards couldn't get worse than Thumbelina!

I've seen a lot of reviews belaboring the studio about a lack of plot. That's not exactly their fault since its BASED ON SWAN LAKE. Just putting that out there. Also I've heard Odette debates about whether she's a flat stupid princess. No. She refuses Derek when he wants to marry her just for her looks. She helps him find her. She breaks out of the dungeon with the help of her friends. She flies who knows how many miles to try and stop Derek from making a mistake. She didn't do anything to help save him BECAUSE SHE WAS PRACTICALLY DEAD. So sorry she didn't just suddenly get better and destroy a frightening giant dragon thing. What an awful character. A disgrace to women truly. Seriously? In the sequels she saves the kingdom, the queen, Derek, herself, etc. she's not a flat character. She's a wonderful princess. Unlike Cinderella-yay she fits into a shoe, sleeping beauty-she's great at slumber parties, etc. I've also seen a lot of grief over the animation. It's pretty old of course the animation will be lacking, but it's pretty good in my opinion. All in all it's a great movie in my opinion. I'm 18 and I still watch it fairly regularly. I show my little sister. I'd recommend it to anyone with children. The music is wonderful and somewhat hokey but that's one reason it's great!That's all.

OK, so "The Swan Princess" is another children's movie. When I saw it, I thought that it was really neat that John Cleese provided the voice of the frog, and I later found out that Jack Palance (once known for "Shane", now known for "City Slickers") provided the voice of the villain. Who would have envisioned those two plus Steven Wright and Frank Welker (Fred on "Scooby-Doo" and Ray on "The Real Ghostbusters") in an animated feature? It wasn't until years after I saw the movie that I found out what the source material was: while in St. Petersburg, I attended a production of Pyotr Chaikovsky's "Swan Lake" in the Mariinsky Theater and realized that it was the same characters. Of course, what stuck in my mind most of all was the haunting theme song. That ballet is more recently recognizable as the subject of "Black Swan" (which I haven't seen).Anyway, the movie's nothing particularly special.Michelle Nicastro, who provided the voice of Odette, was an opera singer (she died of cancer last year). Howard McGillin, who provided the voice of Derek, was one of the people who played the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera".