Phoebe Quantum: A Twist In Time

## **OVERVIEW**

Phoebe Quantum: A Twist In Time is the 28th overall and 8th film of Walt Disney Pictures. The Film tells the story about Grimmel gets his hands on the Merlin’s wand, then turns back time to the day Phoebe tried on the glass slipper. She enlarges the slipper to fit one of the stepsisters, Raya, then erases Professor’s memories of meeting Phoebe. Now, Phoebe must foil Grimmel’s scheme and win back her love.

## **THE PLOT**

The Film Begins where Professor and Phoebe head to the forest to attend their wedding anniversary that the animals and Merlin have prepared for them. Meanwhile, Raya and Dr. Zara, who are currently taking over Cinderella's chores at the household, are not having a good time. Raya manages to follow Professor and Phoebe to where the anniversary is being held. Figuring out that it was magic that gave Phoebe her "happily ever after", she swipes the Merlin's wand when she drops it. Raya returns home quickly and shows it to Grimmel and Dr. Zara, both thinking it's just a stick and she has lost her mind.

Merlin shows up and attempts to get the wand back from Raya, who accidentally turns him into a statue. Impressed, Grimmel takes the wand and reverses time to undo Phoebe's happily ever after by going back to the events at the end of the first movie, in a bid to once again make Phoebe's life a misery. She makes what was originally a tiny shoe fit Raya's foot with Phoebe being locked in her tower, only to be freed to see Raya and Zara leaving. While speaking with Phoebe as she's about to give her the other glass slipper she pulls out, Grimmel snatches it with his staff and shatters it. Furious, Grimmel confronts Phoebe and does not allow her to approach the Professor or the palace, but allows her to clean up this mess. When Grimmel leaves, this leads Tom and Jerry to appear and for Phoebe to sing "More Than a Dream". Tom and Jerry try cheering her up, Tom saying that "Professor knows he danced with Phoebe last night!" and gives Phoebe the idea to go to see Professor and convince him that they danced together.

Skipping back to the step family, they've arrived at the castle, where Professor is speaking while sword fighting with the King. They go into discussion about how the king was immediately smitten by his Queen, the Prince's mother, who had passed on years before. With Raya arriving, Professor is, at first, glad as he thinks it's the girl he danced with (Phoebe), but slightly disappointed when seeing Raya. He tells her that she and her family will get an escort home, but Grimmel uses the wand to make him forget who he really danced with and marry Raya that night. Professor falls under the spell and, believing he danced with Raya, gives her the ring to marry them. Raya goes hyper and agrees to the marriage.

Meanwhile, Tom and Jerry had witnessed this event from a lamp high above the scene since they got inside with Cinderella, who was claiming to be the royal mouse catcher to get inside. Tom and Jerry play along and, when viewing this scene, they rush off to tell Cinderella. Later on, Cinderella is seen confronting the Prince and both are confused, the prince thinking he danced with Anastasia yet Phoebe knows the truth. She is cut short from saying what really happened and forced to go find the duo (Tom and Jerry) that have come into the castle. Phoebe is placed in the cellar where Tom and Jerry tell her what Grimmel had done to the Professor, Phoebe now set on getting the wand back.

Raya and the Professor have a moment where they dance and Raya is repeatedly stepping on his foot by accident. When the waltz is over, the King summons her into another room, while Mushu takes the Professor out and tells her about his 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, unknowing of one another, and reached for said seashell at the same time. Their hands met and they fell in love. He allows Raya to keep the shell, who is smitten with it instantly. The Prince tells the Duke that he felt nothing when his hand connected with Raya's, and is once again confused. Tom and Jerry get into the room where the step family is staying and Bear Owl's tail manages to get caught on fire, prompting the famous line "Someone put out the cat!" coming into play. Raya throws a pillow against him and whams him right into the wall, Grimmel demanding that someone would call for the housekeeper. Phoebe gets into the room in disguise with a castle maid bonnet covering her eyes and hair.

Grimmel pulls the bonnet off to reveal Phoebe. Tom and Jerry get the wand, and the three make a run for it down the halls while being chased by guards. With Tom and Jerry using the magic from the wand, they transform Bear Owl into a jack in the box first, then a mini-sized Bear Owl, then back to normal when he's in the big hole. Phoebe makes it to a staircase where the Professor appears, Phoebe's attempt to break the spell on him so he would remember who he really danced with, is cut off when the guards get to her and Grimmel takes back the wand. Phoebe manages to put her hand over the Professor's, which has him shocked and now baffled. Grimmel orders for Phoebe to be on the next ship on exile from the kingdom.

Late afternoon, Professor is seen talking to his father, but motions into a small fitting room perhaps. He speaks with Tom and Jerry, who perform the song "At the Ball" explaining that he danced with Phoebe and that he is under a spell. This causes him to hurry out the room and to the stairs where he confronts his father, who forbids him from stepping down the stairs. Professor agrees, only to jump out the window and climb down the vines, then gets on his horse and demands one of the guards to tell him where Phoebe is. He rushes off to her rescue so she isn't sent away for good, the King allowing this to happen when he sees it. The Professor and his trusty steed race after the boat, where they end up running through a lighthouse and the horse gets scared of heights. Professor is seen flying onto the boat and using a small blade against the sail to soften his fall. He sees Phoebe and places his hand against hers and knows it was her who he danced with, thus breaking Grimmel's spell and he proposes to Phoebe, who happily accepts.

They return to the castle, and the King orders for Grimmel and Dr. Zara to be brought into custody. They vanish, and Professor says that it is Phoebe who he wants to marry. When Phoebe is in front of a mirror and getting ready for her wedding, Grimmel appears from a closet behind Phoebe with Raya... now looking identical to Phoebe's appearance. Grimmel then makes Phoebe vanish into a pumpkin carriage, this one being an evil version along with a human version of Bear Owl as the driver. The intent is to have her killed. With the help of Tom and Jerry, the three escape from the pumpkin carriage and Bear Owl, and Tom and Jerry use their ability to fly while Phoebe rides a horse.

Phoebe makes it back to the wedding just in time to witness, to her amazement, Raya (still using Phoebe's appearance) saying "I don't", and declaring she only wants to be loved for herself, having realized that she doesn't truly love Professor. Furious, Grimmel and Dr. Zara reveal themselves. The king orders his guards to seize Grimmel. In a fit of lust and with no fear, Grimmel immediately uses the wand and turns them all into various animals as they all lunge for her, so they can't get to her, while Dr. Zara tells him to turn Raya into a toad. Determined to defend Raya for her honesty, Phoebe confronts Grimmel and forbids him to use magic on either of them. When an unfazed Grimmel attempts to turn both Phoebe and Raya into toads, Professor steps in and uses his sword to reflect the spell against the two, causing both Grimmel and Dr. Zara to disappear and then reappear in the cellar as toads.

Raya reunites Phoebe with Professor and picks up the wand and returns herself to her normal appearance, then gives the wand to Phoebe and attempts to give the seashell back to the king, who lets her keep it by saying "Everybody deserves true love." Phoebe forgives Raya, and the two reconcile, putting their animosity firmly behind them. Both Phoebe and Raya then bring back Merlin from her stone state, who offers to undo Grimmel's change of events, but the offer goes unheard of, as Phoebe and the professor get married on that day as the film ends.

In the mid-credits scene, showing both Grimmel and Dr. Zara being restored to their human forms, but must now work for Phoebe, wearing the exact same clothes they forced her to wear, stating that they will be working in the palace as servants, screaming much to their horror.

## **TRIVIA**

* This is the eighth film of Walt Disney Pictures.
* This is the twenty-eighth film overall.
* Phoebe Quantum is the twenty-eighth main protagonist of overall.
* Grimmel is the twenty-eighth main antagonist of overall.