However, this does not stop Pom Pom, the palace's snobby cat, who became the mice's new nemesis as soon as they moved to the palace along with Cinderella, from chasing Jaq around. The Fairy Godmother shows up to help him out, and turns him into a human so he can help out like everyone else. One of Cinderella mouse friends, Jaq, thinks he is too small to help Cinderella in the palace like he did in the first movie. Looking to impress Mary, a mouse who Jaq loves, Jaq allows the Fairy Godmother to tell his story. Proclaiming that he does not like "that magic stuff," Gus reminds him of his last encounter with it. The mice add that story to the book as Jaq gets some magical help from the Fairy Godmother opening a bottle of ink. With the help of his friends, Cinderella persuades everyone in the palace that everyone in the kingdom, including the commoners, should be allowed to participate in the next royal banquet and not everything has to agree with traditional ways. However, the princess realizes she is dissatisfied with the way they are usually run, led by a sharp and snobbish woman named Prudence. 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.Ĭinderella is put in charge of the palace banquets and parties while the King and Prince Charming are away.
Much to their disappointment, Gus and Jaq arrive just as the Fairy Godmother has finished the story.
In a castle, Cinderella's mice friends Gus and Jaq race to a chamber where the Fairy Godmother is reading the story of Cinderella to the other mice. Estimated to cost $5,000,000 to produce, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True was Walt Disney Pictures' top selling animated sequel that year, grossing approximately $120,000,000 in direct-to-video sales, but the film itself was met with a mainly mixed to negative response from fans and critics alike. It consists of three segments featuring Cinderella planning a party, Jaq the mouse being turned into a human and living as Cinderella's page boy, and one of Cinderella's brutal stepsisters (Anastasia, the redheaded one in a pink dress) reaching her redemption through falling in love with a young baker, a low-class man of whom Lady Tremaine and Drizella do not approve. It was followed by Cinderella III: A Twist in Time in 2007. It was made in 2001 and released on February 26, 2002. The animation, handled mostly by artists employed at Disney’s Japanese subsidiary, is at best uneven - note Cinderella’s jerky movements as she bounds up a staircase - but may be just brightly colorful enough to satisfy undemanding pre-schoolers.Cinderella II: Dreams Come True is the first direct-to-video sequel to the 1950 Disney film Cinderella. Each tale hammers home the same moral - “Be yourself!” - and each comes equipped with an instantly forgettable tune sung by teen warbler Brooke Allison.Īt the very end, Allison also performs a bubble-gummy pop-rock re-arrangement of “Bibbidi-Bobbdi-Boo” that likely will make purists cringe. Other segs involve Jaq’s misadventures while briefly in human form, and Cinderella’s attempts to play matchmaker for stepsister Anastasia (Tress MacNeille) and a smitten baker (also Rob Paulsen). Think of it as a variation of “The Princess Diaries,” with snooty court taskmaster Prudence (Holland Taylor) in Julie Andrews’ role. In the first segment, Cinderella frets about making preparations for her first royal ball shortly after honeymooning with her beloved Prince (Christopher Daniel Barnes). Wrap-around sequences have the Fairy Godmother (voiced by Russi Taylor) reminiscing with Jaq (Rob Paulsen) and other cheery mice, prompting tales about Cinderella (Jennifer Hale) and her happily-ever-aftering.
Billed as a feature-length sequel to Disney’s 1950 “Cinderella,” vidpic actually plays more like a loose-knit collection of three episodes from a TV series spin-off.