Happily Ever After

Plot synopsis:
The film starts as the Looking Glass recaps the story of "Snow White." The wicked Queen has been vanquished and the kingdom is at peace as Snow White and the Prince prepare to marry. Meanwhile, back at the castle, the Queen's animal like minions are celebrating their freedom by throwing a party for themselves. Then, the Queen's equally evil wizard brother, Lord Maliss, arrives at the castle, wondering where his sister is. After learning about his sister's demise, he vows to avenge her death. In the process, he transforms into a wyvern and decides to take control of the palace, while Scowl, (a red colored owl) starts training his companion, a purple bat named Batso, on how to be evil.
The next day, Snow White and the Prince are in the meadow picking flowers for their wedding, when suddenly Lord Maliss, in his dragon form, begins attacking Snow White and the Prince as they are traveling to the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs. He targets the Prince, but Snow White manages to flee.
Snow White reaches the cottage and meets the Dwarves' female cousins, the Seven "Dwarfelles": Muddy, Sunburn, Blossom, Marina, Critterina, Moonbeam, and Thunderella. The Dwarves have left the cottage after they bought another mine in a different kingdom, but the Dwarfelles gladly assist Snow White, taking her to visit Mother Nature at Rainbow Falls. Mother Nature has given the Dwarfelles individual powers to assist her; she holds Thunderella accountable for not being able to master her powers correctly, and accuses the other Dwarfelles of improperly using their powers, and threatens to take them away as punishment. Lord Maliss attacks them, but Mother Nature shoots him with lightning, causing him to crash and return to his human form. Before leaving, Lord Maliss informs Snow White that the Prince is held captive in his castle.
Snow White and the Dwarfelles travel to Lord Maliss' castle in the Realm of Doom, along the way encountering a strange cloaked humanoid known as the "Shadow Man." Lord Maliss sends his one-horned wolves after the group, and they manage to escape with the help of the "Shadow Man." Lord Maliss is furious at this failure and transforms into his dragon form, finally capturing Snow White successfully himself and taking her to the castle. The Dwarfelles follow them and sneak into the castle as well.
In the castle, Snow White is reunited with her Prince, who begins exhibiting strange behaviors, and takes her through a secret passage to supposedly escape. When Snow White realizes that he's not the real Prince but is actually Lord Maliss in disguise, he attempts to throw a magical red cloak on Snow White to petrify her into stone. He almost succeeds, but is attacked by the "Shadow Man." The Dwarfelles arrive and attack Lord Maliss as well, but fail and become petrified themselves. The only one unharmed is Thunderella, who finally regains control of her powers and assists Snow White to subdue Lord Maliss. The cloak is thrown on him and Lord Maliss is petrified in mid-transition between his human and dragon form.
As the sun shines onto the castle, the Dwarfelles are restored back to their normal selves. Snow White tearfully mourns the "Shadow Man", believing that she lost both him and her Prince, until Mother Nature arrives at the scene. Suddenly, the "Shadow Man" wakes up and he turns out to be the Prince; as he is waking up he begins comforting Snow White, telling her not to cry, and she notices that he is back to his normal self. The Prince reveals that Lord Maliss had cast a spell on him and he has been watching over Snow White during her journey, guarding her with his life.
Mother Nature decides to let the Dwarfelles keep their powers because they have finally proven themselves by working together as one, and she allows them to attend Snow White's wedding. In the end, Mother Nature takes in Batso and Scowl to be trained as her new apprentices. Sunburn steals Scowl's cigar from him and this allows him to stop smoking. Scowl realizes that he is able to breathe again; he then comments to Batso that working for Mother Nature might not be so bad, even realizing that he can smell again as he wasn't able to before. Batso replies by saying "But with your cigar, you always smell" and the Dwarfelles begin laughing. Snow White and the Prince are reunited, as the two of them share a kiss, and begin to live happily ever after.

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Review:
I caught all Lord Malice's gay innuendos, and laughed my butt off, because I never saw it that way before.Unlike what some people may say, I think this is a fun movie, and the music isn't really that bad considering the expenses that went into the feature.
The strange part is that the lady who played snow white actually has singing talent, but she didn't get a big song like most main characters do in animated films.
I remembered that it was indeed frightening, but in an exciting, mysterious way that I don't think most children would be bothered with (if a six year old didn't find it scary, please, I doubt anyone else really will.) I've read some comments on here with people complaining about how scary it was, and all I can conclude is that you need to get out a whole lot more.
This film is like Barney compared to some of the things I've seen kids these days watch.
I also thought this Snow White was a lot prettier, excusing her unexplained hairstyle change every few minutes (I found it strange that sometimes her hair would be seen up in a ponytail, hanging down loosely or just wearing this strange, gravity-defying headband.) Scowl the owl had me laughing a couple of times, too.
I found this especially true with Thunderella, such a cute little girl and I thought she had the most catchy tuned song as well.Which now brings me to the music.
Even Scowl's song is fun, but I can only wish that Irene Cara was given a chance to sing.I really don't know why this film flopped, to this day it's one of my favorite films of my childhood and will always have a special place in my heart.8 stars outta 10.
this movie is classic...my grandmother got this for me at wal-mart when i was little.me and sister use to watch this movie.i still remember every little thing about this movie and i still think that it is great even so many years later.even at the age of eighteen i still enjoy this movie.
this movie is a breath of fresh air from the original classic snow white by Disney..
I remember watching this movie back when it first came out when i was a little kid (7ish) and i found it to be a pretty good movie.
anyway, Songs like, "Mother Nature" "He's Bad" and "I can get it right" are very cute and make you hum them while you're at work.
i pretty much watch the movie DESPITE snow white.
They should have slowed it down a bit more, and let them USE their powers so it actually made sense when mother nature says "you proved yourselves" I expected when it got dark and the wolves came around for Moonbeam to pull out the Neo and start whoopin some wolves or something, but no, she's as useless at night, as she is during the day.
The movie varies too much from Disney to be considered a sequel, and most people forget that, and reject this film for that reason.
Although it was a little disturbing to see Snow White back in action, I thought the movie was cute and the music somewhat enjoyable.
The dwarfettes are cute and are funny little characters, and Snow White is just as pure as ever..
I had love both Snow White films : Disney's version and this one, and now, I have the film on DVD.Like I said (a million times), I was shocked and surprised by the negative reviews I would see on the web, I thought it's a great sequel to the Snow White story by The Brothers Grimm, only instead of Seven Dwarfs there are Seven Dwarfelles in the film.
I love the ending theme performed by Irene Cara, who also played the voice of Snow White in the film..
Based on the classic fairytale of snow white, Happily Ever After teaches morals to help you look inside yourself and find the truly beautiful and thundering person you are!
From handsome princes, to stone cold Great Animals, this movie's got it all!
Overview: Plot: Great Characters: Great Music: Good Animation: Fair Overview: The Film "Happily Ever After," to me, is, indeed, cheaply animated with some annoying voices, but I think the plot is enticing and the characters are very interesting, especially the Seven "Dwarfelles," the Cousins to the Seven Dwarfs.
The song she sings is a the most enjoyable song in the movie, same with the catchy, poppy tune"Thunderella's Song," sung by Thunderella, the youngest dwarfelle, voiced by Tracey Ullman.Basic Plot: In this Sequel to the original film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Snow White (Voiced by Irene Cara of "Fame") is to be married to the Prince, but Lord Mallis (Voiced by Malcom McDowell of "Caligula"), the Evil Queen's brother, in revenge of his beloved sister's death, kidnaps the prince, but Snow White flees to the Dwarfs' Cottage only to find that the Seven Dwarfelles, their cousins, live there.
It's not a very long film, but it's very engaging.Benifits: Irene Cara sings the end theme, "Love is the Reason." It's a great song.Flaws: A bit on the annoying side.I give it an 8/10.
Happily Ever After was a very good sequel and conclusion to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
What's the point of having Irene Cara perform the voice of Snow White if she never gets the chance for the character to sing????I know...Disney did it better.
But, what people forget, is that Disney didn't CREATE the story of Snow White, nor were they the first to transfer the story to film.
In fact, toys of the main characters were already hitting the store shelves in 1989, with the film's original title "Snow White and the Realm of Doom".I agree, this movie stinks.
watching "Happily Ever After" is a far more pleasant experience than you'd think.Of course, the animation can't hope to match the theatrical wonder of the 1937 classic, but it's actually pretty solid.
I'm thinking especially of Lord Maliss, Mother Nature and Snow White.
It's direct-to-video, but it's *good* direct-to-video; I daresay it's better than *some* of what Disney themselves have put out over the years.Naturally, Filmation could only skirt towards Disney's iconic designs, and perhaps the different appearance of Snow White and co.
The Dwarfelles may have the tackiest name in the history of animation, but they are actually engaging in their own way, and far from being just genderbent versions of the original Dwarfs; tying them to different elements and making them the apprentices of a personified Mother Nature is an...
Some of the acting is fine or even great (Irene Cara is a surprisingly great Snow White, and I've already mentioned McDowdell as Lord Maliss), but some of it on incidental characters is weaker; and most glaringly...
If you like the original "Snow White", or fairy-tale-type animation in general, I'd recommend you give it a watch...
If you know about the company Filmation, they did make some iconic television cartoons like Fat Albert and He Man, but a majority of their content was generic Saturday morning trite that gave animation a bad name in the 1970s due to their cheap animation and lackluster stories that only kids would find amusing.
However, Disney found out about this and sued the studio, but because they had started production on an unofficial sequel to Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, they reworked and redesigned that movie to be nothing like the Disney film.
The general story line is that Snow White must save the prince who was kidnapped by the wicked queen's brother Lord Maliss (don't ask), and along with the Seven Dwarfs' cousins the Dwarfelles (I think you can guess why there are no dwarfs), she sets off on a quest to save him from certain doom.
Sounds exciting enough, yet the movie fails to give a reason as to why the audience should even care about these characters, let alone Snow White, leaving the story bland and straight forward.
Snow White is even blander than she was in the original Disney film, the only noteworthy thing about the prince is that he looks like a copy of He Man, and the Dwarfelles....well thanks to Mother Nature, they do possess magical powers such as control of the weather, control of the earth, control of fire, etc, but they have no personality outside of their powers and they contribute nothing to the plot aside from Sunburst and the whiny Thunderella.
All I'm gonna say is that they only appear in the first half and that's it, so I don't know why they even bothered putting songs in the film to begin with.Now you're probably wondering, is there anything I like about this movie?
That, and the general voice acting is decent enough, as the voice actors do well enough jobs by giving their characters distinct voices.Otherwise, despite some decent animated tricks and a fun villain, I was rather unimpressed with Happily Ever After due to its boring story, bland characters, plot holes, unresolved and furthermore unnecessary fantasy elements and soulless feel.
Even though Disney's Snow White ain't perfect, it certainly had a lot of heart put into it, thus elevating its upbeat characters and emotional appeal that made it timeless.
I also did like how this Snow White, in terms of appearance and character.
The songs are still inspirational as an adult, and it definitely has adult humor that I actually understand now and I enjoy the characters.I think for young kids it's really not suitable as Lord malice is scary (more so than a lot of other bad guys) and an owl that smokes.Overall I still watch this movie twice a year at most I never enjoyed the original snow white So I do generate towards this version a lot more I really like thunderella and the character mother nature.The comedy of a door mouse is so funny.
It isn't absolute perfection, and it certainly isn't as good as Disney's 1937 classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"(one of my all time favourite movies).
"Happily Ever After" mayn't be everyone's cup of tea, but I personally do not think it deserves the low rating on IMDb. It certainly isn't the best animated movie ever, but it's not the worst either.
But there are some nice colourful backgrounds especially in Mother Nature's song, and I liked the character animation of Lord Maliss.
I have seen worse animation in films like "Secret of NIMH 2:Timmy To The Rescue" and "Titanic:The Animated Movie" where the colours are garish and the editing all over the place, but for me that wasn't the case here.There have also been complaints of bad songs.
But the other songs are lovely, especially "Thunderella", sung by the youngest dwarfelle, who is so adorable, and I liked "Mother Nature".
Also the part when Scowl tries to distract the Prince from rescuing Snow White and crashes into a tree was a great moment.
Also I cried when Snow White is crying over the Shadow Man's body, and when she touched him as that was ever so touching; I do like protagonists who don't judge others by their looks.I also liked the characters.
Snow White isn't the most engaging protagonist ever in an animated movie, but I like her beauty, pureness and innocence.
Also he does have a good motive, he wants revenge on Snow White who he holds responsible for his beloved sister's death, I know that has been used many times before but oh well.
What I liked most were the unique personalities of the dwarfelles, they were fun and interesting.The voice acting; by far the best asset of the movie.
Irene Cara is quite emotive as Snow White, and Michael Horton in the little amount of time he has is appealing as the Prince.
The best vocal performance comes from Malcolm MacDowell as Lord Maliss, sinister yet manic, it was either way a truly phenomenal performance.In conclusion, I liked this movie very much.
I admit, I watched it way more that the original Snow White.
I still remember the lyrics to the song that plays as the credits start: ""You can do magic with your own two hands You can touch the clouds right where you stand You can see a rainbow every place you turn Deep in the night a flame still burns Total original You're one of a kind You got the heart and you got the mind No, it wont be easy But u give it a try Reach for the power way deep inside Love is the reason and love is the light So keep on believing all through the night The suns always shining bright just above the rain Your dreams will have wings and they'll fly And love is the reason Love is the reason Love is the reason why"Most movies of fairy tales show you the struggles to reach the happy ending, but always leave you wondering about what happens during the happily ever after.
Even though this movie does not have the original Snow White's (Disney's) spirit and atmosphere ( I guess that's because of decade difference) but it still manages to interest young viewers by it's magical world and funny characters.
I recommend to watch it for everyone who likes Snow White, a nice evening with family and pleasant memories.
A second look however, and I found that this is actually a reasonably decent sequel.First off, if you watch this expecting Disney, don't.
The animation is consistent, and at times, quite good.If you are looking for GREAT animation from Filmation, you are better off seeking out the likes of Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All, Bravestarr: The Legend, and Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night.The voice cast for the most part are superb, although I agree with some of the others here that Irene Cara seems a bit flat as Snow White.
(Not Disney, thankfully.)  Snow White is now on an completely forgettable adventure with the seven "dwarfelles", all of whom are annoying.
Good voice talent and script are hopelessly buried in bad animation and songs..
The basic plot: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfelles combat the evil lord Maliss who stole her prince.The praise:Good voice talents ( Irene Cara , Dom Deluise, Phyllis Diller, Edward Asner, Carol Channing, Malcolm McDowell)and an efficient and occasionally funny script are the main points.The flaws: Bad songs, animation and a feeling of graceless bizarre shlock.Actually, this was one of my favorite movies when I was 4 or 5 and I used to like Critterina and the dwarfelles .
Even when I was a kid, I didn't like the various animated programs coming from the Filmation company - I thought that their cartoons were extremely crude.
The only reason why I decided to see their production of "Happily Ever After" was that it was a feature length movie aimed at theaters, and I was curious to see if the animation would be any better.
Well, (really) young kids may be entertained, but if they have seen Disney's SNOW WHITE before seeing this sequel, I think even they would admit that this sequel is really lacking in comparison..
When I first saw this movie in theaters I really loved it, but when I rented it years later for old times' sake I found it to be too silly for me, but after seeing it again recently I found out I actually like it a lot more than Disney's Snow White.
But the songs are enjoyable, the storyline is great, the romance isn't over the top or too sappy, and Snow White here is, in my opinion, not only prettier than the Disney version but also shows some spunk.
As bad as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was good.
The story is just too out there, and the animation is way too loose to make a good animated feature.We start this story after the end of the first Snow White.
Snow White and the Prince are happily married and Queen free.
Snow White and the Dwarf Elves must venture into evil, dark places to find the Prince.
Meanwhile, Scowl the Owl (Ed Asner) and his bat buddy, Batso (Frank Welker) try to stop Snow White with silly, unfunny results.Everything about this film is just bad.
This isn't Alice in Wonderland, it's Snow White.In the trailer for this movie, the announcer claims this is the biggest, most famous vocal ensemble ever in an animated picture.
First thing I must state is that this is a sequel to the classic tale of Snow White that has no relation to the Disney movie.
Snow White has a sweet voice and design and the dwarfelles are very funny, as are Scowl and Batso.
Someone commented that Snow White looked too pale but I don't think she's was that bad, at least no more so than in the Disney film.
This movie was incredibly dark from the very beginning, you think the prince could be dead or at the very least injured, there's dragons, capes that turn people into stone, a villain more evil, and terrifying than that old hag in the original Disney movie.
I remember the first time watching it being pretty scared as a young one specifically when the cape is used, and lord maliss' red eyes.TL;Dr: This is a 90's VHS children's classic.
If you are a miserable adult please don't watch this movie if you never saw it when you were a kid..
That's not like in the original Snow White where the viewer is acquainted to all of the Dwarfs, who actually have personalities beyond a few "snappy" lines.After watching this wretched thing, I would fully recommend avoiding this at all costs, if you want to get a nice video for the kids, get Disney instead.
Every time you think there's going to be a moment of happiness, someone gets turned into stone, or a dragon picks Snow White up and carries her away.