Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

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## *Cinderella II: Dreams Come True*

### Produced by

Mary Thorne
Mary Alice Drumm

### Written by

Jill E. Blotevogel
Tom Rogers
Jule Selbo

### Music by

Michael Tavera
Brooke Allison
Michael Blakey

### Studio(s)

Walt Disney Television Animation
Walt Disney Animation (Japan), Inc.
T2 Studio

### Followed by

*Cinderella III: A Twist in Time*

 ―Tagline

***Cinderella II: Dreams Come True*** is the second film for the *Cinderella* franchise and the first direct-to-video film sequel of the original 1950 Disney film, *Cinderella*. The film was made in the middle of the years 1999 and 2001 and was released on February 26, 2002. It consists of three royal tales featuring Cinderella planning her first banquet as princess, Jaq the mouse being a human, and Anastasia, one of Cinderella's brutal stepsisters, reaching her redemption by family in love with a young baker, a low-class man whom Lady Tremaine and Drizella do not approve of.

Estimated to have cost five million dollars to produce, *Dreams Come True* was one of Disney's top selling animated sequels that same year, grossing approximately about a hundred twenty million dollars in DVD sales, but received negative reviews.

## Synopsis

*"The magic never ends, but what happened to Cinderella?. She lived happily ever after, but it wasn't all plain sailing and her friends, Jaq and Gus the mice, tell three stories of Cinderella's life as a princess."*

## Plot

The movie begins with the iconic Disney logo fading into its animated counterpart, giving the watcher the sense of an actual film. Inside the palace, Cinderella's mice friends, Jaq and Gus go to a chamber where Fairy Godmother is reading the story of Cinderella to the other mice.

Much to Jaq and Gus's disappointment, Jaq and Gus arrive just as the Fairy Godmother states that "Cinderella and the Prince lived Happily Ever After".

With the Fairy Godmother's help, the mice set off to make a new book to narrate what happens after the Happily Ever After, by stringing three segments of stories together into one narrative.

### Aim to Please

Cinderella and Prince charming have now returned back to the royal palace after their honeymoon, Cinderella was greeted by her mice friends and Bruno, her dog. Cinderella was then put in charge of planning a royal banquet, as she is now a princess and that was the princess' job, while her husband, Prince Charming, and the King are away. Cinderella was made to wear an uncomfortable dress and was given a new hairstyle. The lead maid, a sharp, strict, and rule-obeying woman, called Prudence also introduces Cinderella to Beatrice and Daphne, her new ladies-in-waiting. As Cinderella is taught on how a royal banquet is to be planned, it becomes more of an ordeal for her and eventually she falls over during the dance rehearsal. Daphne helps her up to her feet, and Cinderella retreats to her room, sobbing quietly on her bed. Jaq, Gus, and Mary then find Cinderella and try to comfort her, knowing that it was hard to be a princess.

After using Mary's handkerchief to dry her tear soaked eyes, Cinderella realises that it was better to run the banquet *her* way rather than following the old traditions that was made before her. As she proceeds to do so, Prudence shows her dismay by exclaiming, "It simply isn't done!" with Jaq imitating her and dancing in circles with Gus. Cinderella then heads to the village while handing out the banquet invitations. Prudence then tells her that she should only invite dukes and aristocrats with Cinderella saying that she is doing what she wants. She also removes the prunes from the dessert, opens the palace curtains, and even allows everyone to dance more freely. When Cinderella asserts that she has to try things her own way, Prudence reluctantly lets Cinderella go ahead with these changes, remarking that she only hopes Cinderella knows what she's doing. Once the royal banquet is underway, the King and Charming arrive, and although the King is initially outraged at finding peasants in the palace, he is delighted at the changes by seeing the beautiful moonlight, seeing an old friends from the village, enjoying the delicious chocolate pudding, and loving the music (after Daphne accidentally drops chocolate pudding on his head).

Cinderella was satisfied with the changes she made, and tells Charming about her hopes of being a perfect princess right, and he assures that she already was the perfect princess. The tale ends with a kiss.

The mice add Cinderella's story the book as Jaq gets some magical help from the Fairy Godmother opening a bottle of ink. Proclaiming that he does not like "that magic stuff," Gus reminds him of his last encounter with it. Looking to impress Mary, Jaq allows the Fairy Godmother to tell his story.

### Tail Tail

In this tale, one of Cinderella's mouse friends, Jaq, thinks he was too small to help Cinderella around the palace like before in the first movie. The Fairy Godmother then shows up to help Jaq out, Jaq wishes for her to turn him into a human so that he could help Cinderella with some chores like everybody else. However, this does not stop Pom-Pom, the palace's snobby cat (who became the mice's new arch nemesis as soon as they moved to the palace along with Cinderella and becomes Lucifer's crush in the third tale) from chasing Jaq around. As Pom-Pom thought that a human Jaq was worth approximately seven mice. Mistakenly taken for Sir Hugh, after an incident with an elephant at the fair, Jaq learns to be happy for who he is. It is also shown that Jaq has a love interest with Mary, the mouse and that the owner of Pom-Pom is the same woman who was scared of Jaq.

In a magic mishap, one of the mice spills magic dust onto the art supplies, causing them to become animated. The supplies begin to wreak havoc on the nearly completed book until the Fairy Godmother puts a stop to it. As the mice survey the mess, they reminisce about how they've seen worse, and Jaq tells them of the time Anastasia fell in love with a baker.

### An Uncommon Romance

Anastasia, Cinderella's younger stepsister, falls in love with a baker whom her mother and sister disapprove of. Her mother and Drizella still want her to marry a rich man, and convince her to forget about the baker and say that everything in the baker's shop is inferior; thus, Anastasia has to go against her mother for the first time. At the same time, Lucifer (who was believed to have died at the first film's end) starts chasing Cinderella's mice and Anastasia is kicked by a horse when she and the baker meet, causing her to be left in rags by getting bread and eggs all over herself and breaks into tears when she crashes into the baker's shop, realizing she had fallen for the baker. To make her feel better, Cinderella takes Anastasia to the palace, and gives her a huge makeover, changing her looks for the better. Cinderella encourages Anastasia to follow her own heart, and Anastasia agrees to meet Cinderella in the village the next morning to see the baker. During the process, Lucifer enters the palace and continues to chase Cinderella's mice, but during the chase, he falls in love with Pom Pom, despite her disliking him. The mice help their old nemesis Lucifer fall in love with Pom Pom, that is, if Lucifer promises to stop chasing mice. When Lucifer and Pom Pom get together, Pom Pom goads Lucifer into breaking his promise and helping her catch the mice. In the ensuing chase, the mice push a bucket of water on Pom Pom, and she dumps Lucifer out of spite.

Meanwhile, the next morning, Anastasia buys a garland to give to the baker, only to find out that the baker bought one for her and shows it to another woman, and the baker asks that woman if she thinks Anastasia would like the garland, but Anastasia thinks that the baker has formed a relationship with that woman and runs again to the fountain in tears. The baker, meanwhile, follows Anastasia to the fountain and asks her to the upcoming ball, which her mother and Drizella are very unhappy about, and Drizella tells her mother that Anastasia's become a disaster and that she (Drizella) and her mother will become the laughingstock of the entire town. Anastasia remembers Cinderella's advice, stays with the baker, and falls in love.

Finally, with a sigh, the mice finish their Cinderella book. They sing a reprise of Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo as they chase after Cinderella in an attempt to give her the book, crashing into Prince Charming and some other objects along the way. When they finally catch Cinderella, she asks them what it is, and Gus tells her that it is a book about them all. Cinderella thinks it's wonderful, and asks if the mice would like to read it together to which the mice give a resounding "Yes!" They gather in front of the fire and Cinderella begins to read the book, "Once Upon a Time..."

## Songs

The songs for the film were performed by Brooke Allison, and while a full soundtrack was never released, all the songs were included on the compilation album Disney's Princess Favorites, which was released shortly before the film. None of the characters in the film performed a song for the soundtrack.
Songs include:

* Put It Together
* Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
* Follow Your Heart
* The World is Looking Up to You
* It's What's Inside That Counts
* A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Instrumental only)

## Cast

Because nearly five decades had passed since the original Disney film, a new cast of voice actors was used for this sequel. Ilene Woods, who provided the voice of Cinderella in the original, was still alive at the time this film came out but was deemed too old to be able to produce the sweetness needed for the character, hence Jennifer Hale was selected to take over as the voice of Cinderella in this film, a role that she had already performed on *House of Mouse.*

* Jennifer Hale as Cinderella
* Christopher Daniel Barnes as Prince Charming
* Rob Paulsen as Jaq/The Grand Duke/The Baker/Sir Hugh/Bert/Flower Vendor
* Corey Burton as Gus/Mert/Stable Hand
* Holland Taylor as Prudence
* Frank Welker as Lucifer/Pom-Pom/Bruno
* Tress MacNeille as Anastasia/Pretty Woman
* Russi Taylor as Fairy Godmother/Drizella/Mary/Beatrice and Daphne/Countess Le Grande
* Susanne Blakeslee as Lady Tremaine
* Andre Stojka as The King

### Additional Voices

* Jeff Bennett -
* Bob Bergen -
* Susan Blu -
* Rodger Bumpass -
* Jennifer Darling -
* Paul Eiding -
* Sherry Lynn -
* Mickie McGowan -
* Phil Proctor -

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