Fairy Tale Times

***Fairy Tale Times*** is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Village Roadshow Pictures and ClearWorld Entertainment, with animation provided by CreativeNext Animation. It was directed by Thalia Ward from a screenplay by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and a story by Ward, Lord, and Miller, and stars the voices of Isla Fisher, Sarah Vowell, Margot Rubin, Nathan Lane, Simon Pegg, Jennifer Tilly, and Jenifer Aniston. It follows a teen girl named Goldy must goes on the quest and find her true story of fairy tale while trying to stop an evil queen who plan to turn fairy tale into disaster.

Structurally, the film was inspired by the successful *Shrek* series, as well as *Hoodwinked!* (2006) and *Happily N'Ever After* (2007), which accentuated the fairy tale parody genre of which it is a part. Unlike most ClearWorld films, *Fairy Tale Times* and its art style and tone were also influenced by animated films by Walt Disney Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation. The film is the last ClearWorld animated film made before Lorena Valentina was named chairwoman of JeremyWorks Entertainment.

*Fairy Tale Times* was released on March 9, 2012 in the United Kingdom, and on April 6, 2012 in the United States. It received critical acclaim, with many critics praising its animation, concept, screenplay, characters, score, and vocal performances, particularly of Fisher, Vowell, and Rubin; it is often cited as one of the greatest animated films of all time. The film grossed over $1 billion worldwide on a budget of $108 million, becoming the third highest-grossing film of 2012.

The film's success spawn an expanded franchise, including several short films, a television series on HubShake!, a Christmas television special on The CW, and two sequels, titled *Fairy Tale Times 2: Good vs. Evil* (2015) and *Fairy Tale Times: The Last Chapter* (2020).

## Plot

A young girl named Goldy is living with her grandmother. However, after her grandmother died, she need a place to stay until she approaches the house where the three bears lives. While sleeping for the night, she encountered by the three bears, who is being control by the Evil Queen, forcing Goldy to flee. After being lost, she was found by Nyla, who become Goldy's caretaker.

Ten years later, Goldy is now dreaming of seeing other world. She tells Nyla that she want to see the whole world with other fairy tales. However, she tells Goldy that she will learn someday about the other world. The next day, Goldy sneak out the house and into the bears house. After she discover the three bears is gone, she discover a mysterious girl standing there and after she look at her, she disappear. Meanwhile, the goblins send the report to the Evil Queen about Goldy, she wants to retaliate against her.

As Goldy head back to the village, the Evil Queen and her evil scary creatures leads a raid on the village and the kingdom, during which Goldy manage to escape from the creatures. After being alone, Goldy later befriend with a squirrel named Kasen, who know the way to the Evil Queen's castle where he befriend with a princess named Susan. At Evil Queen's castle, they see all the captured people, including Nyla, in gate. When the creatures notices Goldy and Kasen, they tried to escaped, but they failed when the creature gated them.

However, Susan, who become the Evil Queen's servant after she gets kidnapped, releases Goldy and Kasen, and manage to escape while the creatures chase them. The heroes succeed, but Nyla tells her go to the Fairy Tale Temple for find her own true story when she escape. After escaping, Goldy willingly encourages to go to Fairy Tale Temple alongeside Susan and Kasen. They later joined by a mysterious girl named Roxie, and her trusty sidekick Yael, who rescue them from goblins, and reluctantly join the journey. When the Evil Queen saw the trio, she had her evilest plan to create a darkest version of every creature.

When the trio entered the dark woods, Goldy, Susan and Roxie are chased down by a pack of darkest wolves (who are created by the Evil Queen) and escape successfully with the help of Yael. While the group rest for the night, Susan reveal that she was from the kingdom where she used to lived, until the Evil Queen kidnapped her and lived her life as a servant. The next day, the gang stumble upon a tribe of fairy tale creature who reveal that they know the way to the Fairy Tale Temple, with a hare named Tripp and a tortoise named Dillon. As they across a bridge to the temple, they encountered the same bears from Goldy's childhood. However, the bridge snaps, causing them to fall into a river where they are thrown off a waterfall. Exhausted, Goldy decides to give up but Susan realizes that she, Goldy, Roxie and the gang find themselves at kingdom where she lives, and are excited to meet other people.

The gang enter the entrance of the castle, where they meets King Ernest and Queen Helena, whom Goldy instructs them to help them find the temple so she can know her true story. When Ernest and Helena encounters Susan, they realizes that she is their long-lost daughter and the princess of the kingdom. They eventually reunite and bond with each other, much to the jealousy of Kasen. After Susan refuses to find the temple, she tells Goldy, Roxie, Kasen and Yael that she is home and bids farewell to them as she starts a new life with her parents.

Meanwhile, the Evil Queen gets frustrated after she find out that one of her creations failed and Susan finally found her home, she decided to takeover the kingdom and every fairy tales. Goldy and the gang finally find the Fairy Tale Temple, but it turns out that the temple's guardians, led by Jada, are self-absorbed, leads the life of a slacker, and instead of helping fairy tale characters. Jada just indulges in her prized possessions and the temple's theme song. Goldy tried to tells the temple's guardians about her true story, but they didn't listen to her. However, Goldy then discovers the evil scary creatures are destroying the kingdom and rushes back to the kingdom with Roxie, while Kasen, Yael, Tripp and Dillon rush to alerted the fairy tale creature.

Goldy tries to confront the Evil Queen after she captured Susan and her parents, but the Evil Queen claims that she had no true story and it's just her ordinary life all over again, then one of her creations knocks her into the river, where she is presumed dead. However, Goldy is rescued by Kasen, Yael, Tripp, Dillon and the rest of the fairy tale creature. Jada arrives to transport Goldy to the bears house where she visit and then takes her to the old village where she was born. Jada help her to having had a change of heart after witnessing her efforts and told her that her journey was her true story. Goldy vows and teams up with the fairy tale creature to save the kingdom and all fairy tale.

They arrive at the Evil Queen's castle, defeat the Evil Queen's army and free the imprisoned people including Nyla, Susan and Roxie, and Goldy orders the others to escape while she goes to confront the Evil Queen in her throne room. Refusing to believe that, the Evil Queen gets outraged and uses her magic to create an evil version of fairy tale creatures to destroy them. Goldy and the gang team up to defeat the Evil Queen's creations. As the Evil Queen pursues Goldy and tries to kill him, but the castle starting collapsing, crushing her to her death and causing her creations to disappears. As of the rest of the creatures retreat over the Evil Queen's death, Susan, Roxie, Nyla, Kasen, Yael, Tripp, Dillon and the rest of people and fairy tale creatures manage to escape from the collapsing lair and travel back home.

Goldy later reunites with the village and the kingdom her friends after the collapsing and Nyla finally shows her appreciation for her. The people of the village and kingdom make peace each others, with Goldy embraces the responsibilities of her new life with her gang now being hailed as heroes. Goldy resuming their relationship with Susan and Roxie, as they protect the kingdom was only the beginning for them.

In a mid-credits scene, a brave teenage boy named Jack and his partner Todd emerges from a magical portal in search of the other fairy tale creatures.

In a post-credits scene, Kasen, Yael, Tripp and Dillon actually finds the real three bears. They threatens to eat them, but Kasen befriends with one of the bears.

## Voice cast

* Isla Fisher as Goldy
* Sarah Vowell as Roxie
* Margot Rubin as Susan
* Nathan Lane as Kasen
* Simon Pegg as Yael

*More coming soon!*

## Production

### Development

The idea of *Fairy Tale Times*was originally conceived by Thalia Ward in 2008, when she began revisiting her childhood, when she—as a child—drew several pictures of a young girl and her friend are goes on the journey throughout the fairy tale. She also revisited the computer animated films that spoofed fairy tales, such as *Shrek* (2001), *Hoodwinked!* (2006), and *Happily N'Ever After* (2007), having the pivotal inspirations for the project

*More coming soon!*

## Music

*Main article: Fairy Tale Times/Soundtrack*
## Release

*Fairy Tale Times* was originally scheduled to be released on September 23, 2011; however, in September 2009, the date was pushed back to April 6, 2012. This happened because 20th Century Fox changed the release date of *The Wrath of Magic Girl* from December 2010 to September 2011, thus pushing *Fairy Tale Times* to 2012, with *Dolphin Tale* taking its September 23, 2011 slot.

The film is accompanied by a *Looney Tunes* short film *Daffy's Rhapsody* featuring Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, which accompanied *Journey 2: The Mysterious Island* back in two months before the film's release.

### Marketing

Warner Bros. and JeremyWorks partnered with more than 100 licensing and promotional partners in a deal valued at an unprecedented $250 million. One of the partners was NBCUniversal for advertising. Spots for the film appeared on Bravo, E!, USA, Syfy, Telemundo, and mun2. A customized page was created on Fandango. Warner Bros. also partnered with McDonald's to produce eight toys in their Happy Meals starting on March 30, 2012. A video game based on the film, titled *Fairy Tale Times: Adventures with Goldy & Friends*, was released on April 3, 2012 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Jeremy Z60, Jeremy Mini, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS. In April 2012, Warner Bros. began releasing a line of toys and other merchandise relating to the film in retailers.

#### Trailers

* The official teaser was released on May 11, 2011 and was shown before the 3D re-release of *Alternate Reality*, *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides*, *Kung Fu Panda 2*, *A Pairs Journey*, *Mr. Popper's Penguins*, *Aloha!*, *Cars 2*, *The Flamingo Prince*, *Objects: Legendary Power*, *The Smurfs*, *Spy Kids: All the Time in the World*, *Hotel Motel*, and *Vixa and the Beast Hunters*.
* The theatrical trailer was released on September 23, 2011 and was shown before *Dolphin Tale*, *Annabelle's Quest*, *Puss in Boots*, *Lydia II*, *Arthur Christmas*, *Happy Feet Two*, *The Muppets*, *Mythical*, *Tyler & Marky*, *Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked*, *The Adventures of Tintin*, *The Lorax*, and *John Carter*.
* TV spots began to air between March and April 2012.

### Home media

*Fairy Tale Times* was released on Blu-ray (2D and 3D) and DVD on July 10, 2012. Extras include audio commentary, behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, and short promotional clips. In addition with *Daffy's Rhapsody*, the release included a new short film titled *Susan Outs*. In April 2020, the film's distribution rights were purchased by JeremyWorks Entertainment from Warner Bros. and transferred to Universal Pictures and Entertainment One.

## Transcripts

### Main

To see the main transcript of the film, click here.

### Trailers

To see the transcript for the trailers of the film, click here.