Cinderella III: A Twist in Time

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***Cinderella III: A Twist in Time*** is the third and final direct-to-video sequel of the original 1950 animated feature film of the same name. Canonically, this is a continuation of the original *Cinderella* rather than *Cinderella II: Dreams Come True*, though due to its unusual chronological sequencing, it acknowledges the events of *Cinderella II: Dreams Come True* by using some of the film's characters.

The third sequel film was released on February 6, 2007 and rated G by MPAA. The film was directed by Frank Nissen and features the voices of Jennifer Hale and Susanne Blakeslee. For the United Kingdom, the film was simply titled *Cinderella: A Twist in Time*, without any mention of it being the third movie.

## Synopsis

*"On the first anniversary of Cinderella's (Jennifer Hale) marriage to Prince Charming (C. D. Barnes), her stepsister Anastasia (Tress MacNeille) finds the Fairy Godmother's (Russi Taylor) wand in the forest. Cinderella's cruel stepmother, Lady Tremaine (Susanne Blakeslee), uses it to reverse time, making the famous glass slipper fit Anastasia's foot before Cinderella has a chance to try it on. No longer retaining any memory of who Cinderella is, the prince prepares to marry Anastasia."*

## Plot

The film starts with Cinderella and Prince Charming celebrating their first wedding anniversary. Both of them go to the forest on their horses so that they could attend the anniversary party that the mice and Fairy Godmother has prepared. Meanwhile, Anastasia and Drizella have taken over all of Cinderella's chores at their household, they were not enjoying this. Anastasia then manages to follow Cinderella and Prince Charming to the anniversary party, and she finds out that Cinderella was able to achieves her happily ever after with Fairy Godmother's magic wand. After the Fairy Godmother accidentally drops the wand, Anastasia returns home quickly and shows it to her mother and Drizella, who think she has been going crazy.

The Fairy Godmother then shows up at their house and tries to get her wand back from Anastasia who ends up turning her into a stone statue. Impressed and intrigued, Lady Tremaine takes the wand and reverses time to undo Cinderella's happily ever after and goes back in time to the events at the end of the first movie, in a bid to once again make Cinderella live a miserable life. Lady Tremaine then makes the glass slipper fit Anastasia's toes, by making the shoe bigger. Cinderella, being locked in her tower, was then released shortly after being freed by Jaq and Gus only to see Anastasia and Drizella leaving. While speaking with Cinderella as she was about to give the other glass slipper, Lady Tremaine snatches it with her staff and shatters it by throwing it down the stairs. Lady Tremaine then threatens Cinderella and tells her not to approach Prince Charming or the palace, and tells Cinderella to clean the glass up. Lady Tremaine then leaves, as Jaq and Gus appear to see a weeping Cinderella singing *More Than a Dream*, Gus and Jaq then try to cheer her up by saying that the Prince knows he danced with Cinderella and gives Cinderella an idea to go see the Prince and convince him that she was the woman.

Meanwhile, at the palace, the stepfamily has just arrived and the Prince is speaking while sword fighting with his father. They go into discussion about true love and how the King was immediately smitten by the Queen, Prince Charming's mother who has sadly passed away. With Anastasia arriving, the Prince is at first glad as he thinks it's the maiden he danced with, but is disappointed when he sees Anastasia. He then tells the stepfamily that maybe more than one girl fits the slipper and tells her that the Grand Duke will escort them home, but Lady Tremaine uses the stolen wand to make Prince Charming forget Cinderella and marry Anastasia that night. The Prince falls under the spell and, believing he danced with Anastasia, proposes to her with a ring. Anastasia goes hyper and accepts his proposal.

As Gus and Jaq watched this happening from a lamp above the room since they got inside with Cinderella, who says she was the royal mouse catcher to Prudence. After seeing Lady Tremaine casting the spell on Charming, the run off to tell Cinderella. Later, Cinderella goes to the Prince but both are confused, the Prince thinking he danced with Anastasia yet Cinderella knows the truth. She is cut short from saying what really happened and forced to go find the mice (Jaq and Gus) that have come into the castle. Cinderella is placed in the cellar where she seems to heartbrokened over the Prince not recognizing her until Gus and Jaq tell her what Lady Tremaine had done to him. Now realizing what really happened, Cinderella sets on getting the wand back.

Anastasia and the Prince soon have a moment where they dance in a waltz and Anastasia is repeatedly stepping on his foot by accident. She is shown to be a bit clumsy when it comes to dancing. Everyone watches as they are worried what would happen if Anastasia falls (including the probability of the glass slipper shattering apart), but instead, as she begins to trip backwards, she lands on her backside. The slipper does not break, and nobody has got hurt. While the Duke takes the Prince out after the waltz is over, the King summons Anastasia into another room and tells her about his late wife. He gave her the Queen's most treasured possession, which is a seashell. Both the King and Queen were walking one day on a beach, unaware of one another, when they reached for the same seashell at the same time. Their hands met and they fell in love. He allows Anastasia to keep the shell, who is smitten with it instantly. Back with the Prince, he tells the Duke that he felt nothing when his hand connected with Anastasia's, and is once again confused. Jaq and Gus get into the room where the stepfamily is staying and Lucifer's tail manages to get caught on fire, prompting the famous line "Someone put out the cat!" coming into play. Anastasia throws a pillow against him and whams him right into the wall, the stepmother demanding that someone calls the housekeeper. Cinderella arrives in disguise with a castle maid bonnet covering her eyes and hair.

Lady Tremaine then pulls Cinderella's bonnet, to reveal her true identity. But as Jaq and Gus got the wand, the three friends made a run for it while being chased by Lucifer and some palace guards. Jaq and Gus use the wand to transform Lucifer into various objects. Cinderella then goes to the staircase where Charming appears, Cinderella attempts to break the spell on him, but is cut off when the guards seize her and Lady Tremaine grabs the wand back. Cinderella was able to put her hand over Charming's, which made him feel something. Lady Tremaine then orders the guards to let Cinderella be on the next ship going far away from the kingdom.

In the afternoon, as Charming was talking with his father, Jaq and Gus meet him and leads him to a small fitting room. The Prince at first, believes that he was crazy with the bluebirds and the talking mice, but then Jaq and Gus begin to sing, *At the Ball*, which explains that Charming danced with Cinderella and that Tremaine set him under a magic spell and that Cinderella was on a boat far away. The Prince then runs out of the room where his father forbids him to take another step down the stairs. Charming agrees, only to jump out of the window to climb down the vines, and gets his horse and demands one of the guards to show him where Cinderella was. Charming rushes off to save Cinderella, while the boat for her banishment is ready to leave. Heartbroken from her failure to be with the Prince again, she abroads the ship with the belief that her dreams would never come true at all. The Prince and his trusty steed race after the boat, where they end up running through a lighthouse and the horse gets scared of heights. The Prince is seen flying onto the boat and using a small blade against the sail to soften his fall. He sees Cinderella and places his hand against hers and knows it was her who he danced with, thus breaking Lady Tremaine's spell and he proposes to Cinderella, who happily accepts.

They return to the castle, and the King orders for Lady Tremaine, Anastasia, and Drizella to be brought into custody. They vanish, and the Prince says that it is Cinderella who he wants to marry. When Cinderella is in front of a mirror getting ready for her wedding, Lady Tremaine enters the room with Anastasia... now looking identical to Cinderella's appearance. A concerned Cinderella asks Anastasia if she would truly be happy with this, even going as far as to ask her if she even loves the Prince. Fearing Cinderella could conjure a change of heart, Lady Tremaine then teleports her into a pumpkin carriage. Jaq and Gus jump in to help her, only to be teleported to the carriage after her. This carriage is an evil one and a human version of Lucifer appears as the driver after Lady Tremaine gave him the order to have Cinderella, Jaq and Gus be killed. The three escape from the pumpkin carriage as well as Lucifer, who is restored to his cat form after he fell into a lake when he is being knocked off the carriage by Cinderella, and ride back on the horse that was used to pull the carriage.

Cinderella makes it back to the wedding just in time to witness, to her surprise, Anastasia (still using Cinderella's appearance) saying "I don't" after she came to realize that she doesn't truly love the Prince. Furious, Lady Tremaine and Drizella reveal themselves to confront Anastasia, who declares she only wants to be loved for herself, not because of a magic spell. The King orders his guards to seize Lady Tremaine. With no fear, Lady Tremaine immediately uses the wand to turn all the guards into various animals as they lunge for her. She proceeds to do the same to Anastasia with Drizella telling her to turn Anastasia into a toad. Determined to defend Anastasia for her honesty, Cinderella steps in front of her and forbids her stepmother to use any more magic. When an unfazed Lady Tremaine attempts to turn both Cinderella and Anastasia into toads, the Prince steps in and uses his sword to reflect the spell. It hits both Lady Tremaine and Drizella, causing them to disappear and reappear in the cellar as toads.

Anastasia reunites Cinderella with the Prince, then she picks up the wand and transforms herself back to her normal appearance. She gives the wand to Cinderella, who forgives her by thanking her, and the two reconcile, putting their animosity firmly behind them. Both Cinderella and Anastasia bring back the Fairy Godmother from her stoned state. Anastasia attempts to give the seashell back to the King believing she doesn't deserve it, only for him to let her keep it by saying, "Everyone deserves true love". The Fairy Godmother offers to undo Lady Tremaine's change of events, but the couple decides to keep everything as it is, and the offer goes unheard of. Cinderella and the Prince proceed to re-live their wedding, living happily ever after all over again.

The ending credits show several paintings depicting the main cast before showing the mid-credits scene that shows both Drizella and Lady Tremaine being restored to their human forms, but in the exact same servant dress they forced Cinderella to wear and with brooms, indicating that they will now work in the palace as servants, much to their dismay.

## Cast

Because nearly five decades had passed since the original Disney film, most of the new voice cast from the previous sequel *Cinderella II: Dreams Come True* returned to reprise their roles in this film.

* Jennifer Hale as Cinderella
* C.D. Barnes as Prince Charming
* Susanne Blakeslee as Lady Tremaine
* Tress MacNeille as Anastasia Tremaine
* Russi Taylor as Drizella Tremaine/Fairy Godmother
* Andre Stojka as The King
* Holland Taylor as Prudence
* Rob Paulsen as Jaq/Grand Duke
* Corey Burton as Gus
* Frank Welker as Lucifer

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