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* FreudianExcuse: Sgt. Olga's hatred of the Jews stems from her early childhood, where her once wealthy family was ruined by her father's unscrupulous business partner. Her mother subsequently died of pneumonia and her father became a shell of his former self. Olga's older siblings claimed it was because the business partner was Jewish that he was evil, which warped the fragile young child into the CompleteMonster Olga became. [[spoiler: The business partner later became Olga's first experiment in necromancy.]]
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: During the escape scene.
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** [[TheBeatles [[Music/TheBeatles Paul McCartney]] has a very brief and uncredited one as [[SchindlersList Oskar Schindler]]. It's also rumored that he helped write and compose many of the movie's musical numbers, going uncredited to avoid potential backlash.
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* MST3KMantra: Invoked by then Disney CEO Michael Eisner after early criticisms of the movie; sadly, it did little to help.
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See [[YMMV/DisneysAnneFrank here for the YMMV page]], [[Funny/DisneysAnneFrank here for the Funny moments]], [[Heartwarming/DisneysAnneFrank here for the Heartwarming moments]], and [[Awesome/DisneysAnneFrank here for the Awesome moments]].
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This film has a rather fascinating behind the scenes history though.[[labelnote:*]]Basically, this movie was never actually made or conceived by Disney. The premise and poster were a joke used by Lindsay Ellis (WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick) in her 5 Least Awful Disney Animated Sequels video to parody the Disneyfication of real events (such as Disney/{{Pocahontas}}), and serious-toned stories (such as ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''). All the names of real people associated with this movie are only used as satire. In short, there is no actual Disney's Anne Frank movie, and this page is JustForFun.[[/labelnote]] Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, please keep some things in mind.[[labelnote:*]]Feel free to add whatever you'd like, as long as the tone should be that of a sincere, but extremely misguided, effort by a studio that didn't think too hard about the implications. And the number of characters, songs, etc, should be within the limits of an animated film. Otherwise, anything goes. Remember, this whole thing's just for fun--the film itself doesn't even exist. It was meant as a joke on the part of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick. We just took it and ran with it.[[/labelnote]]
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This film has a rather fascinating behind the scenes history though.[[labelnote:*]]Basically, this movie was never actually made or conceived by Disney. The premise and poster were a joke used by Lindsay Ellis (WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick) in her 5 Least Awful Disney Animated Sequels video to parody the Disneyfication of real events (such as Disney/{{Pocahontas}}), ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''), and serious-toned stories (such as ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''). All the names of real people associated with this movie are only used as satire. In short, there is no actual Disney's Anne Frank movie, and this page is JustForFun.[[/labelnote]] Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, please keep some things in mind.[[labelnote:*]]Feel free to add whatever you'd like, as long as the tone should be that of a sincere, but extremely misguided, effort by a studio that didn't think too hard about the implications. And the number of characters, songs, etc, should be within the limits of an animated film. Otherwise, anything goes. Remember, this whole thing's just for fun--the film itself doesn't even exist. It was meant as a joke on the part of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick. We just took it and ran with it.[[/labelnote]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: When Miep tries to cheer up Anne when her birthday turned out to be very disappointing, he leads into a big band musical number with a DisneyAcidSequence going on in the background. The whole thing is loud and bombastic to make Anne happy and flies directly into the face of the fact that at the start of the movie, Anne's father '''clearly''' stated that they had to try to be as quiet as possible.[[invoked]]
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: Which, in itself, is a symptom of Disneyfication (see below)
** Anne keeps looking like a hot 13 year-old along with Margot and Peter while they stay in Auschwitz. In real life, the jews were cut their hair off and looked like skeletons due to starvation.
** A blink and you'll miss it moment: the entrance to Auschwitz reads "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes [one] free). The "B" in the entrance is upside down in real life, while the movie sets it straight.
** Stalin hated jews and did not get along with Roosevelt and Churchill (see GoKartingWithBowser).
** Sgt Olga drives a car that closely resembles a Jaguar XK120, which in addition to being a British car, was not produced until 1948.
** Even though a young WillSmith's voice cameo provided a small [[invoked]] SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, not only did Jackie Robinson not become a Brooklyn Dodger until 1947, why would he even be in Amsterdam?
** Putting aside the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief required for a small egret to wear heels, a pearl necklace, and an evening gown, said evening gown reflects the Christian Dior "New Look" of long, full skirts, which wasn't introduced until 1948.
** One of the Nazis is referred to as Ernst Rohm who Hitler had actually had murdered in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.
** The fact that Sgt Olga and Josef Mengele marry. He already had a wife called Irene Schöbein, which doesn't appear in the movie...
*** An Irene is shown (and named as such in the credits, this troper forgets who voiced her). She appears to be an assistant/lackey of some sort to Mengele and even appears during "Life is Heil-arious!", "Dance of the Grateful Flesh" (where she has a few singing line in the background), and "Dial Up Ze Nazi". When Mengele reveals his true self she's there looking proud and ready to worship him. She's pretty hard to notice overall and her name is horribly mispronounced and hard to hear the one time it's said so it's hard to notice. Rumors say she was basically going to serve Olga's role in an original version of the plot, but they changed their mind. Rumors are they wanted a “real Nazi villain” and not just someone who was a lackey for Mengele so they made Olga. Of course given the quality of the rest of their research the name "Irene" for Mengele's lackey was probably just pure coincidence anyway. She's never shown getting and form of comeuppance and disappears from the film at some point.
** Anne keeps looking like a hot 13 year-old along with Margot and Peter while they stay in Auschwitz. In real life, the jews were cut their hair off and looked like skeletons due to starvation.
** A blink and you'll miss it moment: the entrance to Auschwitz reads "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes [one] free). The "B" in the entrance is upside down in real life, while the movie sets it straight.
** Stalin hated jews and did not get along with Roosevelt and Churchill (see GoKartingWithBowser).
** Sgt Olga drives a car that closely resembles a Jaguar XK120, which in addition to being a British car, was not produced until 1948.
** Even though a young WillSmith's voice cameo provided a small [[invoked]] SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, not only did Jackie Robinson not become a Brooklyn Dodger until 1947, why would he even be in Amsterdam?
** Putting aside the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief required for a small egret to wear heels, a pearl necklace, and an evening gown, said evening gown reflects the Christian Dior "New Look" of long, full skirts, which wasn't introduced until 1948.
** One of the Nazis is referred to as Ernst Rohm who Hitler had actually had murdered in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.
** The fact that Sgt Olga and Josef Mengele marry. He already had a wife called Irene Schöbein, which doesn't appear in the movie...
*** An Irene is shown (and named as such in the credits, this troper forgets who voiced her). She appears to be an assistant/lackey of some sort to Mengele and even appears during "Life is Heil-arious!", "Dance of the Grateful Flesh" (where she has a few singing line in the background), and "Dial Up Ze Nazi". When Mengele reveals his true self she's there looking proud and ready to worship him. She's pretty hard to notice overall and her name is horribly mispronounced and hard to hear the one time it's said so it's hard to notice. Rumors say she was basically going to serve Olga's role in an original version of the plot, but they changed their mind. Rumors are they wanted a “real Nazi villain” and not just someone who was a lackey for Mengele so they made Olga. Of course given the quality of the rest of their research the name "Irene" for Mengele's lackey was probably just pure coincidence anyway. She's never shown getting and form of comeuppance and disappears from the film at some point.
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''Disney's Anne Frank'' is an[[labelnote:*]]imaginary[[/labelnote]] animated film released by {{Disney}} in the spring of 1989. It is very, ''very'' loosely based on ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'', but takes a lot of liberties with the source material, adding three talking animal sidekicks, a Nazi necromancer FemmeFatale, and a HappilyEverAfter ending.
Despite Disney's assurances that they understood the sensitivity of the source material, it was critically panned for its handling of the Holocaust, particularly the ending, where Anne liberates Auschwitz. It was a BoxOfficeBomb and was largely buried by Disney. There are reports that they would rather release ''SongOfTheSouth'' again before this movie.
This film has a rather fascinating behind the scenes history though.[[labelnote:*]]Basically, this movie was never actually made or conceived by Disney. The premise and poster were a joke used by Lindsay Ellis (WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick) in her 5 Least Awful Disney Animated Sequels video to parody the Disneyfication of real events (such as Disney/{{Pocahontas}}), and serious-toned stories (such as ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''). All the names of real people associated with this movie are only used as satire. In short, there is no actual Disney's Anne Frank movie, and this page is JustForFun.[[/labelnote]] Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, please keep some things in mind.[[labelnote:*]]Feel free to add whatever you'd like, as long as the tone should be that of a sincere, but extremely misguided, effort by a studio that didn't think too hard about the implications. And the number of characters, songs, etc, should be within the limits of an animated film. Otherwise, anything goes. Remember, this whole thing's just for fun--the film itself doesn't even exist. It was meant as a joke on the part of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick. We just took it and ran with it.[[/labelnote]]
Compare other such unfortunate films as ''TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', and ''TheLegendOfTheTitanic''.[[labelnote:*]]These movies ''are'' real though. So yeah, this page is a joke, but this sort of thing ''does'' happen.[[/labelnote]]
See [[YMMV/DisneysAnneFrank here for the YMMV page]].
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!!This work contains examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: During the escape scene.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Some of the promotional materials show that in the film's early stages, Anne was blonde. An animator, whose name still has not been revealed, said this should have been the moment when they realized this wasn't going to work.
* AllGermansAreNazis: Played straight, especially during the musical number "Life is Heil-arious!", which shows uniformed SS soldiers serving as policemen, train operators, even bakers. It actually has callbacks to Disney's propaganda cartoons "DerFuehrersFace" and "EducationForDeath".
* AllStarCast: TomCruise, {{Madonna}}, Bob Hope, and Jason Alexander just to name a few.
* AlmostKiss: Anne and Peter, right before they are captured by Sgt. Olga. And again at the end before Miep interrupts the two.
* [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Big Sister]]: Margot, in the beginning of the film.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Sgt. Olga mentions that she's a member of the Thule Society, a real Nazi organization that investigated the occult. Of course, in real life, they didn't have actual magic powers.
* AGodAmI: Josef Mengele plans to become the "Great Archangel of Humanity", essentially becoming this as he would be worshipped by everyone.
* AnachronismStew:
** Lorenz and Marie-Rose Blanche are a very eighties couple, modeled after Real Life Eighties Couple Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, so they particularly fall into this trap. The two sing Mickey and Silvia's "Love Is Strange," a song that won't be released until fifteen years after the events of the film take place. Which in turn is referencing [[DirtyDancing a movie about the Sixties that won't be released until forty-five years later]].
** Josef Mengele in his angel form begins spouting pop-cultural references about ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/TheFly'', and ''Film/TheThing''.
* AnimatedMusical: With songs by Creator/MelBrooks, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, and PhilCollins. Yes, THAT PhilCollins.
* AmericaWinsTheWar: Surprisingly averted, in this version of the story the Jews just save themselves. The army that parades through Amsterdam in the final scene is American, though.
* ArcWords: "Deep down, I believe everyone is good at heart."
* AscendedExtra: Kaiser Willy in the Latin American cut.
* AwardBaitSong: "Living Free (Until the Nazis Find Us Again)" Also, Marie-Rose Blanche's ChariotsOfFire-style song "Endurance," which she sings as motivation during Anne's seize on Auschwitz.
** Even though, as pointed out in the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nostalgia Chick]]/ToddInTheShadows crossover "Top Ten AwardBait Disney Songs", "Living Free (Until the Nazis Find Us Again)" sounds suspiciously similar to Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth"...
** The ending pop song was actually a top 40 hit, although has no official connection to this movie. The singer allegedly punched a reporter for even asking about it.
** Some fans would argue that 'The World I See (From My Secret Window)' as the preferred award grabbing ballad.
* BabiesEverAfter: While she lays dying, Marie-Rose Blanche tells Lorenz that she [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy "left you something to remember me by"]]. At the end of the film, before Anne and Petr leave for London, Anne and Petr bid Lorenz and Marie-Rose's mixed-species clutch of nestlings farewell. We also see Anne and Petr, along with what appears to be a human version of Lorenz and Marie-Rose, as beatnik-type married couples with children, during the 80's-music video-esque DisneyAcidSequence for "Leibchen."
* BackToBackBadasses: When Sgt. Olga is forced to give Anne a gun to fight off the Zombies that eat her squad.
* BadassBookworm: Anne Frank. Lorenz the Stork qualifies, especially after the (apparent) fall of Marie-Rose Blanche.
* TheBaroness: Sgt. Olga, of course.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Anne yells at her mother that she wishes that she would never see her again. Then she and Peter get captured...
* BetaCouple: Lorenz and Marie-Rose Blanche. One of the rare Disney cases in which one of them dies (even though she does get better).
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: When Miep tries to cheer up Anne when her birthday turned out to be very disappointing, he leads into a big band musical number with a DisneyAcidSequence going on in the background. The whole thing is loud and bombastic to make Anne happy and flies directly into the face of the fact that at the start of the movie, Anne's father '''clearly''' stated that they had to try to be as quiet as possible.[[invoked]]
* BiggerBad: Josef Mengele is the true master mind behind everything.
* BilingualBonus: Sgt. Hündin's surname means 'bitch' in German. On the good guys' side, Rose Blanche means "White Rose" in French, although whether this intentionally references the 1940's pacifist youth resistance movement in Munich is unclear. Actually, given Lorenz's penchant for quotes and aphorisms in foreign languages, every other word he says falls into this category.
* BlackMagic
* BloodlessCarnage:
** When Anne and Marie Rose are shot by Sgt. Olga.
** The Auschwitz uprising. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It helps that 9 out of 10 guards are zombies]].
* BumblingSidekick: Private Ludvig.
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: The shower scene. Many have thought the number invokes LyricalDissonance, but listen carefully and you'll find that the backing vocals are actually a jazzed-up nursery rhyme about personal hygiene. Apparently the vocalists were ''never told they were singing as prisoners of war!''
* ButtMonkey: Ludvig.
* ButWaitTheresMore: Disney, prior to the film's release, developed a plan for a sequel that would focus on Anne's fictional daughter Anya as she searches for her lost younger brother Claus in Cold War-era Berlin, while Stalin's right-hand man Colonel Polov Vlagavich tries to catch her; However due to the severly disappointing reaction to the film by critics and audience members, production was quickly ended and the animated sequences that were completed were retrofitted into other Disney works.
* TheCameo:
** Tim Curry's brief yet memorable performance as Winston Churchill in the break dancing scene with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
** Music/{{Prince}} as Kaiser Billy's singing dog in "I Used to be Ze Bad Guy".
** WillSmith as Jackie Robinson and ChristopherLee as (an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] and [[TheFaceless faceless]]) Adolf Hitler.
** StephenFry as Olga's pet gibbon.
** John Inman as a clothing merchant
** In traditional Disney fashion, there is a scene during the opening credits sweep of Anne Frank's home town where an orange tabby cat is visible that looks almost identical to Oliver. There's even an allude to a (then) future Disney film, ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', where a clock in the background of Olga's office looks a lot like Cogsworth.
* CanineCompanion: Olga's villainous dachshund, Mr. Goebbels.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own DisneyAnimatedCanon page. In fact, when Disney included the original trailer of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' among that movie's laserdisc bonus features, they had Mark Elliot redub part of it, so that it would refer to ''The Little Mermaid'' as movie #28, instead of #29. They also used this version on the Platinum Edition DVD.
* CartoonBomb: Thrown by Sgt. Olga to take out Anne and Peter at their second encounter; Miep jumps in front of Anne at the last second and throws it back to Olga, giving her and Ludvig [[AshFace Ash Faces]], and allowing Anne and Peter to escape into a nearby building for more hijinx (see Paper Thin Disguise).
* CatchPhrase: "Allright men, this is it.... TIME TO CLEAN OUT THE ATTIC!"
* CatsAreMean: Petr's cat, Mouschi, tries to eat Miep, until Anne convinces them they should learn to get along.
* ChekhovsGag: In the scene where Sgt. Olga first threatens Anne, Miep can be seen burrowing into her sandwich.
* ChekhovsSkill: Early in the film, Anne is seen playing ping-pong with Margot and winning. Her skills come in handy later when the zombies start throwing grenades at her.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: A lot of these, due to the low animation budget. Disney was pouring most of its resources into ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* CoolBigSis: Margot, later in the film. Killing two guards with a length of iron pipe and some good luck helped.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Throughout the closing credits there are short throwaway gags of Sgt. Olga attempting to capture Anne, usually resulting in Olga being [[AmusingInjuries injured]].
* CreatorCameo: Creator/MelBrooks voices a funny rabbi that is held in Auschwitz.
* DarkReprise: Anne reprises [[IWantSong "Living Free"]] when her family and Peter are captured.
* {{Deathtrap}}: Anne and her family rig up a series of traps ala ''HomeAlone'' to keep the Nazis out of the attic, and facilitate their escape.
* {{Diary}}
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Which, in itself, is a symptom of Disneyfication (see below)
** Anne keeps looking like a hot 13 year-old along with Margot and Peter while they stay in Auschwitz. In real life, the jews were cut their hair off and looked like skeletons due to starvation.
** A blink and you'll miss it moment: the entrance to Auschwitz reads "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes [one] free). The "B" in the entrance is upside down in real life, while the movie sets it straight.
** Stalin hated jews and did not get along with Roosevelt and Churchill (see GoKartingWithBowser).
** Sgt Olga drives a car that closely resembles a Jaguar XK120, which in addition to being a British car, was not produced until 1948.
** Even though a young WillSmith's voice cameo provided a small [[invoked]] SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, not only did Jackie Robinson not become a Brooklyn Dodger until 1947, why would he even be in Amsterdam?
** Putting aside the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief required for a small egret to wear heels, a pearl necklace, and an evening gown, said evening gown reflects the Christian Dior "New Look" of long, full skirts, which wasn't introduced until 1948.
** One of the Nazis is referred to as Ernst Rohm who Hitler had actually had murdered in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.
** The fact that Sgt Olga and Josef Mengele marry. He already had a wife called Irene Schöbein, which doesn't appear in the movie...
*** An Irene is shown (and named as such in the credits, this troper forgets who voiced her). She appears to be an assistant/lackey of some sort to Mengele and even appears during "Life is Heil-arious!", "Dance of the Grateful Flesh" (where she has a few singing line in the background), and "Dial Up Ze Nazi". When Mengele reveals his true self she's there looking proud and ready to worship him. She's pretty hard to notice overall and her name is horribly mispronounced and hard to hear the one time it's said so it's hard to notice. Rumors say she was basically going to serve Olga's role in an original version of the plot, but they changed their mind. Rumors are they wanted a “real Nazi villain” and not just someone who was a lackey for Mengele so they made Olga. Of course given the quality of the rest of their research the name "Irene" for Mengele's lackey was probably just pure coincidence anyway. She's never shown getting and form of comeuppance and disappears from the film at some point.
* DisneyAcidSequence:
** Anne's trip through the concentration camp, when bleeding to death. The music becomes minimal, the imagery becomes trippy all for it to suddenly become lighter and lighter when a hideous winged figure dances around Anne. The sequence ends with the beautiful, angel-like spirit of the fallen Marie-Rose appears to encourage Anne to live (and vice versa; see Crowning Moment of Heartwarming).
** Josef Mengele's "Dance of the Grateful Flesh" is brief, but the psychodelic lights and the singing deformed victims must definitely invoke this.
* DisneyDeath: Anne Frank at one point looks like she won't be able to recover from being shot by Sgt. Olga. [[UnexplainedRecovery She gets better.]] When Marie-Rose Blanche dies, she gives a big long final speech to Lorenz. She winds up coming BackFromTheDead, however.
* {{Disneyfication}}: Yeah.
* DisneyPrincess: Although not even considered for that line, {{Urban Legend}}s still persist that one can see Anne's outline in some of TheMerch. She is however seen in a princess like dress during the liberation from Auschwitz made from the blue striped pajamas.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. The scene where Ludvig pushes Olga off the tower is shot like one, but Olga survives it. However, see DraggedOffToHell below. Josef Mengele, on the other hand, is shot while flying 2,000 meters in the sky, so you can imagine how his demise was.
* TheDogBitesBack: Private Ludvig, when he realizes Sgt. Olga is using the souls of the Auschwitz prisoners to reanimate a zombie army (of which he is the prototype).
** And a literal one several scenes after Josef Mengele pulls a street dog's tail.
* DraggedOffToHell:
** Sgt Olga, after her Necromancy magic backfires on her and the spirits of all those she enslaved drag her into hell.
** Josef Mengele is implied to suffer this fate, but since his death is marked with bright golden light it can also be interpreted as [[KarmaHoudini his ascent to Heaven]].
*** A DeletedScene found in extremely rare copies explains this further. Since he was [[FridgeBrilliance the Angel of Death, he obviously has to go to heaven]]. Once there, he is quickly judged and sent to Hell. Why was this cut out from the main film before screening even though the film totally bombed is anyone's guess.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
** Private Ludvig.
** Josef Mengele keeps a photo of his parents [[NauseaFuel etched into his chest.]][[invoked]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Josef Mengele actually hates Nazi dogma and was only using them to gather resources and power to ascend and unite all of mankind under his rule. Likewise, Olga and the other nazis are visibly repulsed by his ideals, although it's an extreme case of BlueAndOrangeMorality because they hate the fact that he will treat everyone equally.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Private Ludvig is a zombie. [[CaptainObvious There were no zombies in WWII in real life.]]
* EyesDoNotBelongTHere: Josef Mengele's true form has eyes absolutely everywhere.
* TheFaceless: AdolfHitler's face is kept off-screen [[JamesBond Blofeld-style]] during his one small scene with Sgt. Olga. The song "I Used to be Ze Bad Guy" contains several references to his signature mustache, though.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Poor Sgt. Olga. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Or not.]]
* FallingInLoveMontage: During the AwardBaitSong "The Stars and Moon," as well as during "Leibchen (Means I Love You)."
* FeatheredFiend: Josef Mengele's true form is that of an EldritchAbomination angel swan.
* FridgeBrilliance: Josef's OneWingedAngel form is pretty spot on considering how his nickname in real life is "The Angel Of Death".[[invoked]]
* FunnyForeigner: A lot of these, usually with the Germans.
** Mickey Rooney as the Japanese soldier- possibly an homage to his character in BreakfastAtTiffanys.
** Mel Brooks as the Ukrainian rabbi.
* GagBoobs: Sgt. Olga in pre-production sketches.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After Anne calls her an "evil old hag", Olga [[SoapPunishment stuffs a bar of soap]] with the word "Stutthof" on it into Anne's mouth. [[{{Squick}} Stutthof was a concentration camp rumored to have turned its victims' bodies into soap.]]
** Josef Mengele's implied mutilations and experiments.
** One of the prisoners is heavily implied to be one of the many homosexual victims of the Nazi Regime.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Margot and Anne. They reconcile at the end, though.
* GoKartingWithBowser: The Nazi top brass, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin all attend a bar mitzvah together. They even sing together ("It's Tough at the Top", a song with one of the most lamentable hip-hop verses of all time)
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Private Ludvig sports polka-dot boxers.
** FreezeFrameBonus: When Ludvig bends to fix his pants, three of polka dots seem to fold together to make a very obvious [[EasterEgg Hidden Mickey]] for a split second.
* GhostAmnesia: Originally, Ludvig can't remember anything about his previous life, except his mother's face. Later, he is able to remember that Olga Hündin killed him and his mom, prompting his HeelFaceTurn.
* {{Ghostapo}}:
** Sgt. Olga Hündin.
** Helps that she serves an angel.
* GrammarNazi. Literally. Sgt. Olga routinely belittles Pvt. Ludvig's mumbling zombie speech. Inverted with Josef Mengele, whose grammar is atrocious no matter what language he speaks. Foreshadowing for the fact that he is not human at all.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Private Ludvig, right before he helps Anne and Peter break down the walls of Auschwitz. This is somewhat foreshadowed by Ludvig's often-overlooked, mournful solo acapella early in the film titled "Step by Stumbling Step (I Still Can't Find Mein Mutter)" where his characteristic mumbling is temporarily comically changed into an excellent singing voice. It also echoes the descent into racist fascism of the German state, not just in lyrics, moving from a cabaret style song into a grand marching rhythm.
** Mr. Goebbels makes a more humorous but consequential turn late in the film.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Anne Frank. She certainly wasn't ''unattractive'', but here she looks like one of the [[DisneyPrincess Disney Princesses.]]
* HumanoidAbomination:
** It's implied that the old gypsy in the beginning was one, and the one who taught Olga her black magic in the first place... [[DidNotDoTheResearch Kinda ironic actually.]]
** Josef Mengele, although his true form is a pure EldritchAbomination, although a [[SwansASwimming swan]] like one.
* InNameOnly: In RealLife, Fritz Pfeffer was in his ''fifties'' when he hid out with the Franks and van Pels. Here, he's made into a teenager, apparently for no other reason than to PairTheSpares with Margot. Oy.
* IWantSong: Anne sings about being free from the suffering her family experiences in a song called "Living Free".
* KickTheDog: When the chips go down, Olga attempts to sacrifice her own dog, Mr. Goebbels to gain a last shred of necromantic power.
* TheDogBitesBack: Mr. Goebbles gets revenge by piddling on her ritual circle, culminating in Olga getting dragged down to Hell.
* KillTheCutie: Averted when Anne is shot. She doesn't die, but comes very close to it.
* KilledOffForReal: Olga, Josef Mengele.
* KnightTemplar: What else do you call someone whose idea of peace is to have everyone worship him and live in fear for their lives?
* LargeHam: Kaiser Vilhelm and Sgt. Olga, especially during her VillainousBreakdown.
** Molly Ringwald's entire performance as Anne Frank rivals [[ScarFace Tony Montana]] in terms of sheer scenery-chewing. [[HamAndCheese And it's part of the film's perverse charm.]]
* LastMinuteHookUp:
** At the very end, Miep is seen holding paws with that one girl mouse [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics with the bow]], [[AllThereInTheScript Golda]]. Where'd that come from?
** The same thing with Margot and Fritz, though that was at least hinted beforehand (when he saved her from falling off the cliff).
* LighterAndSofter: And ''how''.
* LightEmUp: Josef Mengele, who casts divine light from his fingers and eyes using Quran verses. Needless to say...
* LightIsNotGood: [[MadDoctor Josef]] [[ManInWhite Mengele]], who is actually an angel.
* MisterMuffykins : Mr. Goebbels, Olga's dog.
* MoodWhiplash: Anne and Sgt. Olga's first encounter is expository; their second encounter is slapsticky and played for laughs; their third and subsequent encounters are played for serious drama (especially when Anne is shot).
* MoralSociopathy: Josef Mengele. Of courses, emphasis on [[TheSociopath "Sociopathy"]].
* {{Montage}}: Anne and her family clean up the attic to the song "Life Up Above".
* MST3KMantra: Invoked by then Disney CEO Michael Eisner after early criticisms of the movie; sadly, it did little to help.
* MustHaveCaffeine: The captured American fighter pilot that Anne and Klaus the rooster rescue from Mengele's dungeon spends most of his on-screen time complaining about the lack of coffee, and wondering why Anne can't produce some for him.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Sgt. Olga is very insistent that the name of her dachshund is Mr. Goebbles, not "Mr. Gobbles." Though in the ending, when he's adopted by Anne's father, they rename him Mr. Gobbles and he seems pretty pleased by it.
* NonHumanSidekick:
** Miep the mouse ([[http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/018/5/9/miep_by_jewelleddragon13-d4mu18k.jpg here's another picture of him]])
** And his villainous counterpart Mr. Goebbles the dachshund for Sgt. Olga.
** Petr has Mouschi the cat
* NoSwastikas: All swastikas are replaced by black X's, including the one on Sgt. Olga's sleeve. The word "Nazi" is absent, except (weirdly) in the song numbers - most notably "Free Again".
** The X's may be a reference to ''TheGreatDictator'', another movie that treats the holocaust in a humorous fashion, albeit much more successfully.
* OneSceneWonder: On the trainride to Auschwitz, a surprisingly non-zombie guard begins to feel sorry for Anne because her diary was taken from her by Olga, he begins telling lousy jokes which eventually leads to the number ''"I'm On A Fast Train To Camp Blues"''. He never appears after this scene. His voice actor wanted to be left uncredited, but his ExecutiveMeddling lead to his name getting top billing, before the title which angered him so much that he refused to work for Disney for years until being asked to dub some roles for CastleInTheSky and the KingdomHearts series. That V.A.'s name was MarkHamill.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: A common theory is that that it was an angel that saved Anne from death. The angel is very very biblical. Josef Mengele turns out to be an angel as well. Strangely enough, he adheres to the original EldritchAbomination depictions of angels, being a [[SwansASwimming swan]] with seven wings completely covered with blue eyes.
* OffModel: All over the place, especially on Anne's parents during the song "Block Party."
* PaperThinDisguise: Anne and Peter when they infiltrate Joseph Goebbels' bar mitzvah.
* PimpedOutDress: Not in the film, but seen in the leaked promotional materials. Apparently, they just never found a good justification to have her wear it, with even a DreamBallet sequence being scrapped.
* PunchClockVillain / JustFollowingOrders: Private Ludvig.
* ReligionIsMagic:
** When the Ukrainian rabbi counteracts Olga's spells with Hebrew prayers.
** Josef Mengele uses Quran verses for some of his spells.
* ShoutOut:
** Caricatures of [[HogansHeroes Col Klink and Sgt Shultz]] can be spotted during the ballroom scene.
** A mouse as a sidekick may be a nod to the graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', also dealing with World War II oppression. A few scenes seem to pay homage to the work too, for the attentive comic fan.
** During the flashback of how Ludvig was reborn, the scientists both have "Heir Dr. MD" on the backs of their uniforms, as an homage to how Mel Brooks (the lyricist of this film) always wore the same thing whenever he played a scientist!
** The clown in the background at the concentration camp may refer to ''TheDayTheClownCried''.
** At the end when the Americans ''FINALLY'' come, they mention something about a guy named [[CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers.]]
** One of the grains of rice is shaped like Gusto Gummi.
** The Nazi uniform buttons feature hidden Mickeys in three seperate scenes.
** One of the children shown briefly in the Hitler Youth looked shockingly like a Disney-fied [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Eric Cartman]].
** An early draft called for a song entitled, [[SFDebris "If I Had One Wish (It'd Be Auschwitz)"]], but composer AlanMenken didn't think it was funny enough.
* TheStarscream: Josef Mengele for the Nazis.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The chase scene in the Achterhuis near the beginning of the film.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Several German names are butchered, so as not to confuse the poor English speakers. Most commonly replacing w's with v's (such as in Ludvig, native German Ludwig) but the most weird change has got to be "Harry" which is spelled "Flavius" in native German.
* StockScream:
** The Goofy holler is used near the end, when the last Jew in the queue is kicked into the shower.
** Kaiser Vilhelm lets out a WilhelmScream in the middle of his VillainSong.
* StorybookOpening: Used as a reference to previous DisneyAnimatedCanon, and also allowed the studio to conclude the film with a TitleDrop of the original published work -- one of the few moments they have ShownTheirWork.
--> '''Narrator:''' "All this love... From the pages of Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl."
* TakingTheBullet: Anne for Peter
* TalkingToHimself: JimCummings plays both of Anne's parents.
* TheyJustDidntCare: The accents. Goodness, the accents.[[invoked]]
* ThoseWackyNazis: So wacky, they're comic relief!
* UnholyMatrimony: Sgt. Olga and Josef Mengele marry midway through the film.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory
* VillainousBreakdown: A short scene near the end, of Sgt. Olga ranting at those under her command, has some uncanny similarity to the famous "Hitler Reacts" scene from ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' (so far, no parody videos have shown up).
* VillainSong:
** "Dial Up Ze Nazi", where Sgt. Olga sings about being in charge of Auschwitz.
** Josef Mengele's "Dance of the Grateful Flesh", where he sings how his human experimentation and mutilations are for the greater good and how the victims love it.
** [[Film/TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]] was in the [[DevelopmentHell Second]] HarlanEllison version of the script. And he wanted it to be sung by A NAZI [[BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]]!
** The Ghost of Kaiser Vilhelm's number, "I Used to be Ze Bad Guy".
** "Life is Heil-arious!", sung by the German occupation troops.
** There was a planned song that Hitler would have sung called "Mein Kampf" but was cut and Hitler was made TheFaceless.
* VindicatedByVideo
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Olga explains to Joseph Goebbels that this is why her dachshund got his name, [[YouHaveFailedMe before she pushes him (the human Goebbels, that is) out of his zeppelin laboratory.]]
* WhamLine:
** "I've read... your diary..."
** "I remember." Said to Olga by Ludvig when his memories of his mother come rushing back.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Klaus, the wisecracking Jewish rooster?
* WideEyedIdealist: Anne
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: One of the very last scenes shows Mr. Goebbels, Mouschi and Miep all sleeping together in a pile, symbolizing(?) that people of very different backgrounds can live in peace.
* WhiteMagic: Josef Mengele [[LightIsNotGood uses it]]. It has healing purposes...which he uses to keep his victims alive while "doing nasty things to them".
* XMeetsY: ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' meets ''{{Anastasia}}''.
** ''ATrollInCentralPark'' meets ''SchindlersList''
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''Disney's Anne Frank'' is an[[labelnote:*]]imaginary[[/labelnote]] animated film released by {{Disney}} in the spring of 1989. It is very, ''very'' loosely based on ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'', but takes a lot of liberties with the source material, adding three talking animal sidekicks, a Nazi necromancer FemmeFatale, and a HappilyEverAfter ending.
Despite Disney's assurances that they understood the sensitivity of the source material, it was critically panned for its handling of the Holocaust, particularly the ending, where Anne liberates Auschwitz. It was a BoxOfficeBomb and was largely buried by Disney. There are reports that they would rather release ''SongOfTheSouth'' again before this movie.
This film has a rather fascinating behind the scenes history though.[[labelnote:*]]Basically, this movie was never actually made or conceived by Disney. The premise and poster were a joke used by Lindsay Ellis (WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick) in her 5 Least Awful Disney Animated Sequels video to parody the Disneyfication of real events (such as Disney/{{Pocahontas}}), and serious-toned stories (such as ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''). All the names of real people associated with this movie are only used as satire. In short, there is no actual Disney's Anne Frank movie, and this page is JustForFun.[[/labelnote]] Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, please keep some things in mind.[[labelnote:*]]Feel free to add whatever you'd like, as long as the tone should be that of a sincere, but extremely misguided, effort by a studio that didn't think too hard about the implications. And the number of characters, songs, etc, should be within the limits of an animated film. Otherwise, anything goes. Remember, this whole thing's just for fun--the film itself doesn't even exist. It was meant as a joke on the part of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick. We just took it and ran with it.[[/labelnote]]
Compare other such unfortunate films as ''TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', and ''TheLegendOfTheTitanic''.[[labelnote:*]]These movies ''are'' real though. So yeah, this page is a joke, but this sort of thing ''does'' happen.[[/labelnote]]
See [[YMMV/DisneysAnneFrank here for the YMMV page]].
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!!This work contains examples of:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: During the escape scene.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Some of the promotional materials show that in the film's early stages, Anne was blonde. An animator, whose name still has not been revealed, said this should have been the moment when they realized this wasn't going to work.
* AllGermansAreNazis: Played straight, especially during the musical number "Life is Heil-arious!", which shows uniformed SS soldiers serving as policemen, train operators, even bakers. It actually has callbacks to Disney's propaganda cartoons "DerFuehrersFace" and "EducationForDeath".
* AllStarCast: TomCruise, {{Madonna}}, Bob Hope, and Jason Alexander just to name a few.
* AlmostKiss: Anne and Peter, right before they are captured by Sgt. Olga. And again at the end before Miep interrupts the two.
* [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Big Sister]]: Margot, in the beginning of the film.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Sgt. Olga mentions that she's a member of the Thule Society, a real Nazi organization that investigated the occult. Of course, in real life, they didn't have actual magic powers.
* AGodAmI: Josef Mengele plans to become the "Great Archangel of Humanity", essentially becoming this as he would be worshipped by everyone.
* AnachronismStew:
** Lorenz and Marie-Rose Blanche are a very eighties couple, modeled after Real Life Eighties Couple Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, so they particularly fall into this trap. The two sing Mickey and Silvia's "Love Is Strange," a song that won't be released until fifteen years after the events of the film take place. Which in turn is referencing [[DirtyDancing a movie about the Sixties that won't be released until forty-five years later]].
** Josef Mengele in his angel form begins spouting pop-cultural references about ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/TheFly'', and ''Film/TheThing''.
* AnimatedMusical: With songs by Creator/MelBrooks, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, and PhilCollins. Yes, THAT PhilCollins.
* AmericaWinsTheWar: Surprisingly averted, in this version of the story the Jews just save themselves. The army that parades through Amsterdam in the final scene is American, though.
* ArcWords: "Deep down, I believe everyone is good at heart."
* AscendedExtra: Kaiser Willy in the Latin American cut.
* AwardBaitSong: "Living Free (Until the Nazis Find Us Again)" Also, Marie-Rose Blanche's ChariotsOfFire-style song "Endurance," which she sings as motivation during Anne's seize on Auschwitz.
** Even though, as pointed out in the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nostalgia Chick]]/ToddInTheShadows crossover "Top Ten AwardBait Disney Songs", "Living Free (Until the Nazis Find Us Again)" sounds suspiciously similar to Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth"...
** The ending pop song was actually a top 40 hit, although has no official connection to this movie. The singer allegedly punched a reporter for even asking about it.
** Some fans would argue that 'The World I See (From My Secret Window)' as the preferred award grabbing ballad.
* BabiesEverAfter: While she lays dying, Marie-Rose Blanche tells Lorenz that she [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy "left you something to remember me by"]]. At the end of the film, before Anne and Petr leave for London, Anne and Petr bid Lorenz and Marie-Rose's mixed-species clutch of nestlings farewell. We also see Anne and Petr, along with what appears to be a human version of Lorenz and Marie-Rose, as beatnik-type married couples with children, during the 80's-music video-esque DisneyAcidSequence for "Leibchen."
* BackToBackBadasses: When Sgt. Olga is forced to give Anne a gun to fight off the Zombies that eat her squad.
* BadassBookworm: Anne Frank. Lorenz the Stork qualifies, especially after the (apparent) fall of Marie-Rose Blanche.
* TheBaroness: Sgt. Olga, of course.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Anne yells at her mother that she wishes that she would never see her again. Then she and Peter get captured...
* BetaCouple: Lorenz and Marie-Rose Blanche. One of the rare Disney cases in which one of them dies (even though she does get better).
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: When Miep tries to cheer up Anne when her birthday turned out to be very disappointing, he leads into a big band musical number with a DisneyAcidSequence going on in the background. The whole thing is loud and bombastic to make Anne happy and flies directly into the face of the fact that at the start of the movie, Anne's father '''clearly''' stated that they had to try to be as quiet as possible.[[invoked]]
* BiggerBad: Josef Mengele is the true master mind behind everything.
* BilingualBonus: Sgt. Hündin's surname means 'bitch' in German. On the good guys' side, Rose Blanche means "White Rose" in French, although whether this intentionally references the 1940's pacifist youth resistance movement in Munich is unclear. Actually, given Lorenz's penchant for quotes and aphorisms in foreign languages, every other word he says falls into this category.
* BlackMagic
* BloodlessCarnage:
** When Anne and Marie Rose are shot by Sgt. Olga.
** The Auschwitz uprising. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It helps that 9 out of 10 guards are zombies]].
* BumblingSidekick: Private Ludvig.
* BusbyBerkeleyNumber: The shower scene. Many have thought the number invokes LyricalDissonance, but listen carefully and you'll find that the backing vocals are actually a jazzed-up nursery rhyme about personal hygiene. Apparently the vocalists were ''never told they were singing as prisoners of war!''
* ButtMonkey: Ludvig.
* ButWaitTheresMore: Disney, prior to the film's release, developed a plan for a sequel that would focus on Anne's fictional daughter Anya as she searches for her lost younger brother Claus in Cold War-era Berlin, while Stalin's right-hand man Colonel Polov Vlagavich tries to catch her; However due to the severly disappointing reaction to the film by critics and audience members, production was quickly ended and the animated sequences that were completed were retrofitted into other Disney works.
* TheCameo:
** Tim Curry's brief yet memorable performance as Winston Churchill in the break dancing scene with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
** Music/{{Prince}} as Kaiser Billy's singing dog in "I Used to be Ze Bad Guy".
** WillSmith as Jackie Robinson and ChristopherLee as (an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] and [[TheFaceless faceless]]) Adolf Hitler.
** StephenFry as Olga's pet gibbon.
** John Inman as a clothing merchant
** In traditional Disney fashion, there is a scene during the opening credits sweep of Anne Frank's home town where an orange tabby cat is visible that looks almost identical to Oliver. There's even an allude to a (then) future Disney film, ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', where a clock in the background of Olga's office looks a lot like Cogsworth.
* CanineCompanion: Olga's villainous dachshund, Mr. Goebbels.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own DisneyAnimatedCanon page. In fact, when Disney included the original trailer of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' among that movie's laserdisc bonus features, they had Mark Elliot redub part of it, so that it would refer to ''The Little Mermaid'' as movie #28, instead of #29. They also used this version on the Platinum Edition DVD.
* CartoonBomb: Thrown by Sgt. Olga to take out Anne and Peter at their second encounter; Miep jumps in front of Anne at the last second and throws it back to Olga, giving her and Ludvig [[AshFace Ash Faces]], and allowing Anne and Peter to escape into a nearby building for more hijinx (see Paper Thin Disguise).
* CatchPhrase: "Allright men, this is it.... TIME TO CLEAN OUT THE ATTIC!"
* CatsAreMean: Petr's cat, Mouschi, tries to eat Miep, until Anne convinces them they should learn to get along.
* ChekhovsGag: In the scene where Sgt. Olga first threatens Anne, Miep can be seen burrowing into her sandwich.
* ChekhovsSkill: Early in the film, Anne is seen playing ping-pong with Margot and winning. Her skills come in handy later when the zombies start throwing grenades at her.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: A lot of these, due to the low animation budget. Disney was pouring most of its resources into ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* CoolBigSis: Margot, later in the film. Killing two guards with a length of iron pipe and some good luck helped.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Throughout the closing credits there are short throwaway gags of Sgt. Olga attempting to capture Anne, usually resulting in Olga being [[AmusingInjuries injured]].
* CreatorCameo: Creator/MelBrooks voices a funny rabbi that is held in Auschwitz.
* DarkReprise: Anne reprises [[IWantSong "Living Free"]] when her family and Peter are captured.
* {{Deathtrap}}: Anne and her family rig up a series of traps ala ''HomeAlone'' to keep the Nazis out of the attic, and facilitate their escape.
* {{Diary}}
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Which, in itself, is a symptom of Disneyfication (see below)
** Anne keeps looking like a hot 13 year-old along with Margot and Peter while they stay in Auschwitz. In real life, the jews were cut their hair off and looked like skeletons due to starvation.
** A blink and you'll miss it moment: the entrance to Auschwitz reads "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes [one] free). The "B" in the entrance is upside down in real life, while the movie sets it straight.
** Stalin hated jews and did not get along with Roosevelt and Churchill (see GoKartingWithBowser).
** Sgt Olga drives a car that closely resembles a Jaguar XK120, which in addition to being a British car, was not produced until 1948.
** Even though a young WillSmith's voice cameo provided a small [[invoked]] SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, not only did Jackie Robinson not become a Brooklyn Dodger until 1947, why would he even be in Amsterdam?
** Putting aside the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief required for a small egret to wear heels, a pearl necklace, and an evening gown, said evening gown reflects the Christian Dior "New Look" of long, full skirts, which wasn't introduced until 1948.
** One of the Nazis is referred to as Ernst Rohm who Hitler had actually had murdered in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.
** The fact that Sgt Olga and Josef Mengele marry. He already had a wife called Irene Schöbein, which doesn't appear in the movie...
*** An Irene is shown (and named as such in the credits, this troper forgets who voiced her). She appears to be an assistant/lackey of some sort to Mengele and even appears during "Life is Heil-arious!", "Dance of the Grateful Flesh" (where she has a few singing line in the background), and "Dial Up Ze Nazi". When Mengele reveals his true self she's there looking proud and ready to worship him. She's pretty hard to notice overall and her name is horribly mispronounced and hard to hear the one time it's said so it's hard to notice. Rumors say she was basically going to serve Olga's role in an original version of the plot, but they changed their mind. Rumors are they wanted a “real Nazi villain” and not just someone who was a lackey for Mengele so they made Olga. Of course given the quality of the rest of their research the name "Irene" for Mengele's lackey was probably just pure coincidence anyway. She's never shown getting and form of comeuppance and disappears from the film at some point.
* DisneyAcidSequence:
** Anne's trip through the concentration camp, when bleeding to death. The music becomes minimal, the imagery becomes trippy all for it to suddenly become lighter and lighter when a hideous winged figure dances around Anne. The sequence ends with the beautiful, angel-like spirit of the fallen Marie-Rose appears to encourage Anne to live (and vice versa; see Crowning Moment of Heartwarming).
** Josef Mengele's "Dance of the Grateful Flesh" is brief, but the psychodelic lights and the singing deformed victims must definitely invoke this.
* DisneyDeath: Anne Frank at one point looks like she won't be able to recover from being shot by Sgt. Olga. [[UnexplainedRecovery She gets better.]] When Marie-Rose Blanche dies, she gives a big long final speech to Lorenz. She winds up coming BackFromTheDead, however.
* {{Disneyfication}}: Yeah.
* DisneyPrincess: Although not even considered for that line, {{Urban Legend}}s still persist that one can see Anne's outline in some of TheMerch. She is however seen in a princess like dress during the liberation from Auschwitz made from the blue striped pajamas.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. The scene where Ludvig pushes Olga off the tower is shot like one, but Olga survives it. However, see DraggedOffToHell below. Josef Mengele, on the other hand, is shot while flying 2,000 meters in the sky, so you can imagine how his demise was.
* TheDogBitesBack: Private Ludvig, when he realizes Sgt. Olga is using the souls of the Auschwitz prisoners to reanimate a zombie army (of which he is the prototype).
** And a literal one several scenes after Josef Mengele pulls a street dog's tail.
* DraggedOffToHell:
** Sgt Olga, after her Necromancy magic backfires on her and the spirits of all those she enslaved drag her into hell.
** Josef Mengele is implied to suffer this fate, but since his death is marked with bright golden light it can also be interpreted as [[KarmaHoudini his ascent to Heaven]].
*** A DeletedScene found in extremely rare copies explains this further. Since he was [[FridgeBrilliance the Angel of Death, he obviously has to go to heaven]]. Once there, he is quickly judged and sent to Hell. Why was this cut out from the main film before screening even though the film totally bombed is anyone's guess.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
** Private Ludvig.
** Josef Mengele keeps a photo of his parents [[NauseaFuel etched into his chest.]][[invoked]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Josef Mengele actually hates Nazi dogma and was only using them to gather resources and power to ascend and unite all of mankind under his rule. Likewise, Olga and the other nazis are visibly repulsed by his ideals, although it's an extreme case of BlueAndOrangeMorality because they hate the fact that he will treat everyone equally.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Private Ludvig is a zombie. [[CaptainObvious There were no zombies in WWII in real life.]]
* EyesDoNotBelongTHere: Josef Mengele's true form has eyes absolutely everywhere.
* TheFaceless: AdolfHitler's face is kept off-screen [[JamesBond Blofeld-style]] during his one small scene with Sgt. Olga. The song "I Used to be Ze Bad Guy" contains several references to his signature mustache, though.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Poor Sgt. Olga. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Or not.]]
* FallingInLoveMontage: During the AwardBaitSong "The Stars and Moon," as well as during "Leibchen (Means I Love You)."
* FeatheredFiend: Josef Mengele's true form is that of an EldritchAbomination angel swan.
* FridgeBrilliance: Josef's OneWingedAngel form is pretty spot on considering how his nickname in real life is "The Angel Of Death".[[invoked]]
* FunnyForeigner: A lot of these, usually with the Germans.
** Mickey Rooney as the Japanese soldier- possibly an homage to his character in BreakfastAtTiffanys.
** Mel Brooks as the Ukrainian rabbi.
* GagBoobs: Sgt. Olga in pre-production sketches.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After Anne calls her an "evil old hag", Olga [[SoapPunishment stuffs a bar of soap]] with the word "Stutthof" on it into Anne's mouth. [[{{Squick}} Stutthof was a concentration camp rumored to have turned its victims' bodies into soap.]]
** Josef Mengele's implied mutilations and experiments.
** One of the prisoners is heavily implied to be one of the many homosexual victims of the Nazi Regime.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Margot and Anne. They reconcile at the end, though.
* GoKartingWithBowser: The Nazi top brass, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin all attend a bar mitzvah together. They even sing together ("It's Tough at the Top", a song with one of the most lamentable hip-hop verses of all time)
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Private Ludvig sports polka-dot boxers.
** FreezeFrameBonus: When Ludvig bends to fix his pants, three of polka dots seem to fold together to make a very obvious [[EasterEgg Hidden Mickey]] for a split second.
* GhostAmnesia: Originally, Ludvig can't remember anything about his previous life, except his mother's face. Later, he is able to remember that Olga Hündin killed him and his mom, prompting his HeelFaceTurn.
* {{Ghostapo}}:
** Sgt. Olga Hündin.
** Helps that she serves an angel.
* GrammarNazi. Literally. Sgt. Olga routinely belittles Pvt. Ludvig's mumbling zombie speech. Inverted with Josef Mengele, whose grammar is atrocious no matter what language he speaks. Foreshadowing for the fact that he is not human at all.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Private Ludvig, right before he helps Anne and Peter break down the walls of Auschwitz. This is somewhat foreshadowed by Ludvig's often-overlooked, mournful solo acapella early in the film titled "Step by Stumbling Step (I Still Can't Find Mein Mutter)" where his characteristic mumbling is temporarily comically changed into an excellent singing voice. It also echoes the descent into racist fascism of the German state, not just in lyrics, moving from a cabaret style song into a grand marching rhythm.
** Mr. Goebbels makes a more humorous but consequential turn late in the film.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Anne Frank. She certainly wasn't ''unattractive'', but here she looks like one of the [[DisneyPrincess Disney Princesses.]]
* HumanoidAbomination:
** It's implied that the old gypsy in the beginning was one, and the one who taught Olga her black magic in the first place... [[DidNotDoTheResearch Kinda ironic actually.]]
** Josef Mengele, although his true form is a pure EldritchAbomination, although a [[SwansASwimming swan]] like one.
* InNameOnly: In RealLife, Fritz Pfeffer was in his ''fifties'' when he hid out with the Franks and van Pels. Here, he's made into a teenager, apparently for no other reason than to PairTheSpares with Margot. Oy.
* IWantSong: Anne sings about being free from the suffering her family experiences in a song called "Living Free".
* KickTheDog: When the chips go down, Olga attempts to sacrifice her own dog, Mr. Goebbels to gain a last shred of necromantic power.
* TheDogBitesBack: Mr. Goebbles gets revenge by piddling on her ritual circle, culminating in Olga getting dragged down to Hell.
* KillTheCutie: Averted when Anne is shot. She doesn't die, but comes very close to it.
* KilledOffForReal: Olga, Josef Mengele.
* KnightTemplar: What else do you call someone whose idea of peace is to have everyone worship him and live in fear for their lives?
* LargeHam: Kaiser Vilhelm and Sgt. Olga, especially during her VillainousBreakdown.
** Molly Ringwald's entire performance as Anne Frank rivals [[ScarFace Tony Montana]] in terms of sheer scenery-chewing. [[HamAndCheese And it's part of the film's perverse charm.]]
* LastMinuteHookUp:
** At the very end, Miep is seen holding paws with that one girl mouse [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics with the bow]], [[AllThereInTheScript Golda]]. Where'd that come from?
** The same thing with Margot and Fritz, though that was at least hinted beforehand (when he saved her from falling off the cliff).
* LighterAndSofter: And ''how''.
* LightEmUp: Josef Mengele, who casts divine light from his fingers and eyes using Quran verses. Needless to say...
* LightIsNotGood: [[MadDoctor Josef]] [[ManInWhite Mengele]], who is actually an angel.
* MisterMuffykins : Mr. Goebbels, Olga's dog.
* MoodWhiplash: Anne and Sgt. Olga's first encounter is expository; their second encounter is slapsticky and played for laughs; their third and subsequent encounters are played for serious drama (especially when Anne is shot).
* MoralSociopathy: Josef Mengele. Of courses, emphasis on [[TheSociopath "Sociopathy"]].
* {{Montage}}: Anne and her family clean up the attic to the song "Life Up Above".
* MST3KMantra: Invoked by then Disney CEO Michael Eisner after early criticisms of the movie; sadly, it did little to help.
* MustHaveCaffeine: The captured American fighter pilot that Anne and Klaus the rooster rescue from Mengele's dungeon spends most of his on-screen time complaining about the lack of coffee, and wondering why Anne can't produce some for him.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Sgt. Olga is very insistent that the name of her dachshund is Mr. Goebbles, not "Mr. Gobbles." Though in the ending, when he's adopted by Anne's father, they rename him Mr. Gobbles and he seems pretty pleased by it.
* NonHumanSidekick:
** Miep the mouse ([[http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/018/5/9/miep_by_jewelleddragon13-d4mu18k.jpg here's another picture of him]])
** And his villainous counterpart Mr. Goebbles the dachshund for Sgt. Olga.
** Petr has Mouschi the cat
* NoSwastikas: All swastikas are replaced by black X's, including the one on Sgt. Olga's sleeve. The word "Nazi" is absent, except (weirdly) in the song numbers - most notably "Free Again".
** The X's may be a reference to ''TheGreatDictator'', another movie that treats the holocaust in a humorous fashion, albeit much more successfully.
* OneSceneWonder: On the trainride to Auschwitz, a surprisingly non-zombie guard begins to feel sorry for Anne because her diary was taken from her by Olga, he begins telling lousy jokes which eventually leads to the number ''"I'm On A Fast Train To Camp Blues"''. He never appears after this scene. His voice actor wanted to be left uncredited, but his ExecutiveMeddling lead to his name getting top billing, before the title which angered him so much that he refused to work for Disney for years until being asked to dub some roles for CastleInTheSky and the KingdomHearts series. That V.A.'s name was MarkHamill.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: A common theory is that that it was an angel that saved Anne from death. The angel is very very biblical. Josef Mengele turns out to be an angel as well. Strangely enough, he adheres to the original EldritchAbomination depictions of angels, being a [[SwansASwimming swan]] with seven wings completely covered with blue eyes.
* OffModel: All over the place, especially on Anne's parents during the song "Block Party."
* PaperThinDisguise: Anne and Peter when they infiltrate Joseph Goebbels' bar mitzvah.
* PimpedOutDress: Not in the film, but seen in the leaked promotional materials. Apparently, they just never found a good justification to have her wear it, with even a DreamBallet sequence being scrapped.
* PunchClockVillain / JustFollowingOrders: Private Ludvig.
* ReligionIsMagic:
** When the Ukrainian rabbi counteracts Olga's spells with Hebrew prayers.
** Josef Mengele uses Quran verses for some of his spells.
* ShoutOut:
** Caricatures of [[HogansHeroes Col Klink and Sgt Shultz]] can be spotted during the ballroom scene.
** A mouse as a sidekick may be a nod to the graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', also dealing with World War II oppression. A few scenes seem to pay homage to the work too, for the attentive comic fan.
** During the flashback of how Ludvig was reborn, the scientists both have "Heir Dr. MD" on the backs of their uniforms, as an homage to how Mel Brooks (the lyricist of this film) always wore the same thing whenever he played a scientist!
** The clown in the background at the concentration camp may refer to ''TheDayTheClownCried''.
** At the end when the Americans ''FINALLY'' come, they mention something about a guy named [[CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers.]]
** One of the grains of rice is shaped like Gusto Gummi.
** The Nazi uniform buttons feature hidden Mickeys in three seperate scenes.
** One of the children shown briefly in the Hitler Youth looked shockingly like a Disney-fied [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Eric Cartman]].
** An early draft called for a song entitled, [[SFDebris "If I Had One Wish (It'd Be Auschwitz)"]], but composer AlanMenken didn't think it was funny enough.
* TheStarscream: Josef Mengele for the Nazis.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The chase scene in the Achterhuis near the beginning of the film.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Several German names are butchered, so as not to confuse the poor English speakers. Most commonly replacing w's with v's (such as in Ludvig, native German Ludwig) but the most weird change has got to be "Harry" which is spelled "Flavius" in native German.
* StockScream:
** The Goofy holler is used near the end, when the last Jew in the queue is kicked into the shower.
** Kaiser Vilhelm lets out a WilhelmScream in the middle of his VillainSong.
* StorybookOpening: Used as a reference to previous DisneyAnimatedCanon, and also allowed the studio to conclude the film with a TitleDrop of the original published work -- one of the few moments they have ShownTheirWork.
--> '''Narrator:''' "All this love... From the pages of Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl."
* TakingTheBullet: Anne for Peter
* TalkingToHimself: JimCummings plays both of Anne's parents.
* TheyJustDidntCare: The accents. Goodness, the accents.[[invoked]]
* ThoseWackyNazis: So wacky, they're comic relief!
* UnholyMatrimony: Sgt. Olga and Josef Mengele marry midway through the film.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory
* VillainousBreakdown: A short scene near the end, of Sgt. Olga ranting at those under her command, has some uncanny similarity to the famous "Hitler Reacts" scene from ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' (so far, no parody videos have shown up).
* VillainSong:
** "Dial Up Ze Nazi", where Sgt. Olga sings about being in charge of Auschwitz.
** Josef Mengele's "Dance of the Grateful Flesh", where he sings how his human experimentation and mutilations are for the greater good and how the victims love it.
** [[Film/TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]] was in the [[DevelopmentHell Second]] HarlanEllison version of the script. And he wanted it to be sung by A NAZI [[BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]]!
** The Ghost of Kaiser Vilhelm's number, "I Used to be Ze Bad Guy".
** "Life is Heil-arious!", sung by the German occupation troops.
** There was a planned song that Hitler would have sung called "Mein Kampf" but was cut and Hitler was made TheFaceless.
* VindicatedByVideo
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Olga explains to Joseph Goebbels that this is why her dachshund got his name, [[YouHaveFailedMe before she pushes him (the human Goebbels, that is) out of his zeppelin laboratory.]]
* WhamLine:
** "I've read... your diary..."
** "I remember." Said to Olga by Ludvig when his memories of his mother come rushing back.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Klaus, the wisecracking Jewish rooster?
* WideEyedIdealist: Anne
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: One of the very last scenes shows Mr. Goebbels, Mouschi and Miep all sleeping together in a pile, symbolizing(?) that people of very different backgrounds can live in peace.
* WhiteMagic: Josef Mengele [[LightIsNotGood uses it]]. It has healing purposes...which he uses to keep his victims alive while "doing nasty things to them".
* XMeetsY: ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' meets ''{{Anastasia}}''.
** ''ATrollInCentralPark'' meets ''SchindlersList''
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