The Swan Princess (1994)

Just perfect...

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I will always love this movie. The romance and chemistry between the two main characters are great! I love how sweet and simple it is and I love the animation in it and it looks like a real fairy tale. The music and songs in this movie are so great as well. I love that we get to see the characters as children and then grow into adults. This movie will always be a part of my childhood.

The plot is as follows once upon time in generic there lived a king who very much wanted a child. One day he got one a daughter and decided to marry her off to the son of the old widow queen Uberta. But when the day comes the princess is cursed by an evil sorcerer and transformed to a swan it's up to the prince to save her.The Plot. The plot is stolen from Disney movies most notably Sleeping beauty but this movie is way way way worse than that masterpiece. The plot is not bad just bland and uninteresting.The characters. The ones that aren't stolen from other animated movies are dull. Derk is a nonentity and Odette is nice but dull. The villain's your ordinary power hungry magician . The only one that has some life is The queen who is fun and entertaining The voice work is good from the likes Pontus Gustafson(The Jungle Book) , Lars Edström(Professor Calculus in Tintin) and Torsten Wahlund( the Seacrow Island movies) Nothing great but good. It's well done and i have nothing to complain about .The stand out being Christina Schollin as the queen..The song . The song are a mixed bag some move the plot along like "No Fear while some grind it to a halt like Far Longer Than Forever. No More Mr. Nice Guy is fun but pointless and the actor(Swedish voice) is not really a singer.All in all The Swan Princess is not bad. But it's dull ,lifeless, pointless and very cliché.If you have kids there are far far far worse thing to put on ( most made in Sweden). But they are also much better things to show them the film is mediocre.

Honestly I have never seen in film during the year I was born being the worst! I haven't seen this film today and when I just seen it today, I just was heavily disappointed! The beginning just had a terrible opening Odette and Prince Derek were cheesing each other off from childhood to adulthood. I mean c'mon it's suppose to be a fairytale, not a stupid teenage film! Did they not think of the children viewers at all?I also found that one of the kid actors voices were just awful, they didn't sound like their own normal human voice, it sounded more like a badly synchronised robot voice. I don't know why this film won a Golden Globe because this film is awful and I wouldn't show this to kids, it is such a terrible movie!

When I was young, I liked a lot of princess stories. One was this interesting take on the Swan Princess. It's a normal story of two people being arranged to be married by there parents and forced to see each other so many times that they end up falling for each other. It's not uncommon for royalty to want to marry royalty but the fact that the mother and father actually want the two to fall in love before they marry was always something I liked about this story. It wasn't that it happened in a short while, this happened over the course of their whole life. Then at the point when the two were almost in love, Odette is taken by a evil sorcerer and turned into a swan. Normally the story would be done as a ballet but this was done as a cartoon and they did a pretty good job turning it.The characters are actually quite lovable from a frog thinking he's a prince to an army style puffin and even a interesting little sidekick for the prince. I fell in love with almost all of the characters and just the whimsy of them all.The animation is pretty nice for the time it came out and for the fact this was done in cell shading. Small misshapes do end up happening but they don't take away much from the overall of the show. The work they did with water looks so beautiful, especially the transformation of Odette from swan to human and back again. It's bright and colorful, with characters more then likely in proportion to each other. It's a amazing piece of work for when it was done and I kept watching it, trying to see what would make me hate the animation but nothing I saw would break it for me.I could of went without the musical numbers in this show though one or two of them made me chuckle including the first song about them supposed to be getting married. It may have gone on a little too long but it was fun because as it went on, when the peasants were singing, it was always about what a holiday they would get and lower taxes when the two wed. It really showed what people would probably be thinking in that time and gave it a feeling of realism. The voices were not all that bad when it was singing or even talking, though we fall into some sounding a bit more forced then others. Odette's sounds a bit to high when she is singing as though she is forcing to hit the high notes of the song when her parts are all high. Darek's Mother's voice is a bit naggy though at times that helps the comedy and other times it just feels a bit overboard.It's just an overall good show and a great one for children even to this day.