Little Princess School

***Little Princess School*** (**Escola de Princesinhas** in Portuguese) is a mockbuster TV series made by the infamous Brazilian animation studio Vídeo Brinquedo. The show is a rip-off of the *Disney Princess* franchise.

## Plot

In a school where they prepare the princesses of fairy tales, studied five inseparable friends: Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade. There, they learn to behave like the heroines of fairy tales that we already know. But with this class, the hallways at school will be the scene of a mess after another.

Although implemented, the five friends are always tucked in major trouble. They are curious and smart, which gives a special touch ace adventures of these princesses.

## Episodes

### Season 1

* "Sleeping Beauties"
* "The Enchanted Toad"
* "Defenseless Princes"

### Season 2

* "Bianca's Dragon"
* "The Enchanted Flower"
* "The Delicate Challenge"

### Season 3

* "3 Orders"
* "The Giant and the Butterfly"
* "The Hampered Fairy"

### Season 4

* "The Summer Student"
* "The Idiot"
* "The Lead Soldier"

### Season 5

* "Golden Curls"
* "Candy House"
* "Eternal Life"

## Why It Sucks

* The series' concept is ludicrously idiotic and doesn't make any sense whatsoever. **Who goes to school to learn to be beautiful? Beauty is NOT a skill!**
* The series' characters are bland and blatant rip-offs of the characters of the Disney Princess franchise:
	+ Cindy is a rip-off of Cinderella.
	+ Bianca is a rip-off of Snow White.
	+ Hime is a ripoff of Fa Mulan from *Mulan*.
	+ Iria is a rip-off of Tiana from *The Princess and the Frog*, though *The Princess and the Frog* was still in production at the time the series came out.
	+ Zade is a rip-off of Jasmine from *Aladdin*.
	+ Professor Bella (who debuted in the show as of Season 2) is a rip-off of Belle from *Beauty and the Beast*.
	+ Madame Drastic is a ripoff of the Evil Queen from *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*.
	+ As the series progresses since Season 2, there are also one-off characters that suspiciously look like other Disney Princess franchise characters aside from Professor Bella, such as a race-swapped rip-off of Ariel from *The Little Mermaid* in the Season 4 episode "The Summer Student", a rip-off of the Genie from *Aladdin* in the Season 2 episode "3 Orders", and a rip-off of Alice from *Alice in Wonderland* in the Season 5 episode "Golden Curls".
* Speaking of WIS #2, episodes like "Sleeping Beauties" and "The Enchanted Frog" directly steal elements from Sleeping Beauty and The Princess and the Frog, respectively, even though the latter film was still in production at the time the series was made.
* On the topic of the characters, as with Video Brinquedo's other animated franchises, its characters are extremely loathsome and beyond detestable. Its main five protagonists, Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade, are extremely unlikable, as all five of them are nothing more than airheaded, rude, lying, uneducated, whiny spoiled brats whom are overly-obsessed over being attractive, constantly break the rules and often get away with their mischief unpunished.
	+ Speaking of which, the girls' stupidity isn't funny, cute or endearing in the slightest, but rather irritating and frustrating. The most obvious example of this is in the episode "Sleeping Beauties" where all the girls (except for Cindy) deliberately prick their fingers on the spindle of the spinning wheel for no reason whatsoever without any further second thoughts and consequently fall into a deep slumber as the result.
	+ The fact that Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade are so obsessed with being attractive **at the age of six** is ***extremely disturbing*** and is basically something a pedophile would've dreamed of.
	+ Similar in vein to the awful kids' movies *A Troll in Central Park* and *The Emoji Movie*, the characters suffer from rather poor representation; Madame Drastic is depicted as the antagonist, even though all she intended to do was to discipline her naughty students that misbehave and break the school rules; similarly, Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade are depicted as the main protagonists, despite them being the misbehaving brats who are the ones responsible for most of the chaos that occurs within the school grounds in almost every episode. Basically, the show tries to force its audience to sympathize with the protagonist and to root against the villain without giving them the usual proper characterization as a reason to do this.
* Horrendous and choppy 2D flash animation. For example, the princesses' walk cycles look more like hopping than actual walking.
* The series' premise is confusing as it is full of plot holes. For example, why do the girls need to go to Princess School in order to be able to take part in fairy tales?
* Heaps of animation errors; for example, Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade are always shown to be smiling regardless of whatever emotion they're facing such as fear, especially in Season 1.
* Very poor editing throughout, such as how most of the characters' dialogues often overlap over each other without any stopping to the point that it gets noisy at times, especially when the Princesses talk to each other.
* The animation in this show is so lazy that the animators couldn't be bothered to give the characters a variety of clothing choices that fit the episode's routine. For example, the Princesses are always shown in their signature princess outfits ALL THE TIME, even during gym class and when going to bed in numerous episodes because the animators couldn't be bothered to draw other outfits for them such as athletic wear and pajamas for example.
	+ In real life, wearing princess dresses (or formal dresses in general) even during gym class and to bed is extremely uncomfortable, restrictive and constricting, which is what makes these bad clothing choices to not make any sense whatsoever.
* Aggressively childish writing with very poorly-written episodes, even for preschool standards.
* Pathetically lame, inane and uncreative theme song.
* Overuse of low-quality stock sound effects.
* The colors are way too bright and sickly sweet. For example in the episode "The Enchanted Toad", the "south of the lake at the darkest and shadiest spot" which is perceived to be scary by the girls (specifically Zade) is revealed to be colored with nothing but only dark pink hues and therefore does not even remotely come off as scary at all to the average viewer, even to its target audience, hence making the girls come off as complete wusses.
* There are lots of mean-spirited moments on characters that often don't deserve it or does nothing wrong, such as:
	+ The ending of "Sleeping Beauties" where Bianca's pet rooster has its beak tied shut and is forced to sleep outside for the night despite having saved Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade from the sleeping spell.
	+ The ending of the episode "The Enchanted Toad" where Madame Drastic gets chased by the titular toad whom she kissed in a creepy manner while the five princesses laugh at her fate, which is an incredibly **messed-up** ending, even for its target audience.
	+ The nice monster getting a stomachache for eating all the chocolate in the pantry which the girls laugh about it in "Defenseless Princes".
		- Worse, each of those said endings are apparently supposed to be happy endings, suggested by the joyous music playing in the back. They instead come off as sickening.
* The series is filled with heaps of offensive racial stereotypes:
	+ Hime is ***always*** shown with her eyes closed, which conveys **the offensive racial stereotype that Asians are blind**.
		- On the topic of Hime, the writers for some reason must've confused both the Chinese and Japanese ethnicities, and therefore erroneously depicted Hime as a Japanese-looking character complete with a kimono despite that Fa Mulan, the Disney character Hime is a rip-off of, is actually Chinese, which is just racist to both Chinese and/or Japanese people by depicting both races as one of the same despite them being two completely different ethnicities.
	+ Iria's hairstyle is drawn in a stereotypical African afro hairdo, and is often treated as the Butt-Monkey of the group, which symbolizes racial discrimination towards black-skinned people.
	+ In the episode "Sleeping Beauties", the magic mirror is drawn in **blackface** style with brown skin and very thick red lips, which is extremely offensive towards African-Americans.
	+ In some scenes, Zade, despite being of a Middle East ethnicity like her "Disney clone" Princess Jasmine from *Aladdin,* has her face erroneously colored with pale white skin color than the rest of her body due to animation errors, which is inadvertent whitewashing.
	+ There's even a music video of the Girls singing the classic children's song "Ten Little Indians", complete with Native American boys in the background. **Yes, really.**
* The show is filled to the brim with tons of outdated misogynistic sexism from before the 1910s and offensive sexist stereotypes to both male and female genders:
	+ The series' premise is that the girls go to Princess School to learn to be beautiful, which heavily implies that females only exist to be beautiful and nothing else, which heavily re-enforces outdated sexist attitudes towards women.
	+ The series' female protagonists as incredibly dumb and airheaded, hence re-enforces the outdated sexist beliefs that females are dumb.
	+ The segment "Defenseless Princes" heavily reinforces outdated gender roles on both males and females, where females are heavily implied to not have courage at all and must be damsels in-distress that are in constant need to be rescued by princes.
	+ Most of the male characters in this show are often depicted as bland, forgettable, or in the case of the toad from "The Enchanted Toad", perverted girl predators.
* Laughable dialogue from most of the characters, one example is in the scene from the episode "Defenseless Princes" where the gym teacher reveals the reason why the girls have PE (Physical Education) class is that "*A princess needs to be in great shape if she wants to do some high-stress shopping!*".
* The show is so agonizingly happy 100% all the time, to the point that it gets annoying and irritating. Not helping is the fact that almost all the characters (except for Lurch, Madame Drastic, Madam Grimm and the Magic Mirror) are constantly smiling 100% all the time, especially in Season 1, due to bad animation.
* Cheap and ugly character designs that look like they were drawn by a child using the application Microsoft Paint, such as the toad in "The Enchanted Toad" and the magic mirror in "Sleeping Beauties".
* Loads of filler and padding.
* Lame and unfunny attempts at humor.
* Intelligence-insulting idiocy is rampant throughout the entire show to the point that it is frustrating rather than funny. For example in the episode "The Enchanted Toad", the girls got dismissed from PE class **all because Cindy broke her nail**. **WE KID YOU NOT**.
* The lip-syncing is way-off.
* Constant use of recycled animations, such as the characters' walk cycles, the lip-sync of the Magic Mirror in the episode "Sleeping Beauties" (even though the lip-sync doesn't even match what he's actually saying in that episode), as well as the titular toad's speaking and dancing in the episode "The Enchanted Toad" (again even though the lip-sync doesn't even match what he's actually saying in that episode).
* Dreadful soundtrack, whose music score is basically a combination of generic stock music and an instrumental rendition of the series' theme song (which isn't any better).
* Horrible Portuguese voice-acting.
* Despite being a show aimed at younger audiences ages 6 and under, there are several scenes of risqué innuendos in this show that are extremely inappropriate for its target audience. For example:
	+ The first episode, "Sleeping Beauties", literally starts off with Cindy telling Bianca "*There's no point in trying to hide that crazy rooster of yours*", which is basically ***a penis joke on erection***. **WE KID YOU NOT**.
	+ Again in "Sleeping Beauties", the Magic Mirror tells Cindy that the only way for Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade to break the sleeping spell is to be kissed by a charming prince, which means he's basically encouraging the girls to be in romantic relationships with boys despite being six years old girls, which is incredibly unnerving, sickening and creepy, since the girls are basically way too young to be in romantic relationships.
	+ Again in "Sleeping Beauties", after the rooster saves Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade from the sleeping spell, Bianca from that point on refers to her pet rooster as "Prince Crooner" twice as if that the rooster is her love interest, which is **bestiality**. **Yes, really**.
	+ In the episode "The Enchanted Toad", the toad asks Iria to give him a kiss in return of him helping her find the mandragora root. She does it, and she gets turned into a toad in the process. The very fact that Iria is six years old, and the toad is originally an elderly wizard, which makes this scene incredibly disturbing, sickening and creepy, and therefore makes the toad come off like a creepy pedophile.
		- Again in the episode "The Enchanted Toad" when the toad asks Iria something in exchange of what she wants to know before the latter kisses him, Iria responds him with "*Oh my goodness! Why can't you tell me without having to give something in exchange? Men are all the same*". While that line of dialogue itself is very poorly-written and makes no sense whatsoever, if one pays attention to the last sentence in Iria's dialogue "*Men are all the same*" as well as the ensuing scene where the toad asks Iria for a kiss, it is heavily implies that Iria herself, despite being only six years old, has often been pressured by grown men to kiss them in exchange of what she wanted to know from them every time, which is extremely unnerving, sickening, creepy and disturbingly pedophilic if you think about it, since it's likely implied that Iria herself was often a victim of **child grooming and/or child trafficking**.
	+ Again in the episode "The Enchanted Toad", at the ending after Madame Drastic kisses the toad, the toad transforms into a creepy humanoid frogman and starts chasing her like a creepy rapist.
	+ In the episode "Defenseless Princes", during the opening scene at PE class, if you listen closely to the background sounds, you could **literally hear little girls making sexual noises in the background** as the Princesses' panting noises, which is incredibly sick, creepy, disturbingly pedophilic and highly inappropriate if you think about. **Yes, really**.
	+ Zade, despite being only six years old, wears a skimpy bikini-like tube top as her regular outfit like her "Disney clone" Princess Jasmine from *Aladdin*. The same can be said to the race-swapped Ariel knock-off from the episode "The Summer Student", who, despite being only six years old, wears a skimpy bikini-like tube top as her regular outfit in the same vein as Ariel's mermaid form from *The Little Mermaid*.
* The scene where the toad does a song and dance number in "The Enchanted Toad" is a pathetically lame rip-off of Michigan J Frog from *Looney Tunes*.
* Heaps of bad morals, as the series basically teaches kids to constantly lie to their teachers, break the rules, and to be rude to one another.
* Its Christmas special in Season 5 is a complete mess; their version of "Jingle Bells" is not only a big cringe-fest, but they sang "Ore the fields we go" instead of "Over the fields we go".
* It even spawned a stand-alone sequel film *The Frog Prince* (also by Video Brinquedo) a year later with Iria being the only returning character of the show, which is not only a blatant rip-off of Disney's *The Princess and the Frog*, yet it also drastically flanderizes Iria further to become a lot dumber and more vain, arrogant and whiny than she already was in this show.
* Most of the side characters of the show are unnamed, which is utterly lazy.

## Redeeming Qualities

* The voice acting in the English dub is decent, as it uses many of the same voice actors from 4Kids Entertainment.
* While the Flash animation in the series remains horribly choppy and inexpressive as ever throughout its run, as of Season 2 onwards it's main characters Cindy, Bianca, Hime, Iria and Zade are given slightly more variety in facial expressions as opposed to nothing but just permanent smiling like in Season 1, though that isn't saying much.
* The lead girls' character designs, while looking like blatant rip-offs of the Disney Princesses themselves, at least look cute to some.
* Despite how unlikable and loathsome its lead characters are due to them being nothing but whiny, airheaded, misbehaving spoiled brats whom are unhealthily obsessed over physical appearances, at least Iria is a bit more tolerable in this show than what she'd eventually become in her spin-off solo film *The Frog Prince* (also by Video Brinquedo), though that isn't saying much.

## Trivia

* As mentioned before, after the series was cancelled, it was later followed with a stand-alone spin-off feature film "The Frog Prince" featuring only Iria from the show, which was made by Video Brinquedo solely just to cash in on Disney's *The Princess and the Frog* a year later.
* Each season of the show is unusually short with a total of only three episodes which have a total run-time of 11 minutes long each. When released on DVD by both Video Brinquedo and MorningStar Entertainment, all three episodes of each season are compiled altogether and sold as one feature-length film with a total run-time of between 35-40 minutes, including some Brazilian TV commercials tied-in in-between each segment as filler content .
* While Seasons 1-4 of the show was originally produced in 4:3 full-screen format and in standard definition, Season 5 is the first and only season to have episodes produced in 16:9 widescreen format and in high-definition.
* While the series' theme song in its original Brazilian Portuguese audio is normal-pitched, for some strange reason, the English theme song is higher-pitched to PAL speed (about 4%-5% faster than usual), though the instrumental version of the theme song is sometimes played at PAL speedup this way, such as over the title card of the episode "3 Orders" from Season 3.