History JustForFun / DisneysAnneFrank

* 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.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The Nazi Succubi.

* AllStarCast: Elisabeth Shue, Creator/TomCruise, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/WilliamShatner, Bette Midler, TimothyDalton, Steven Culp, Jason Alexander, and Creator/BobHope, just to name a few. Also featuring Creator/ChristopherLee in a cameo as AdolfHitler.

** There are, however, plans by a group of internet animators to make an unofficial fan production.

* EvilIsHammy: Josef Mengele

* Expy: Olga has a pair of contacts in Brussels, Belgium that she communicate with twice during the movie; a [[Literature/HerculePoirot portly, mustachioed gentleman]] and a [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} boy with a white dog.]]

** Molly Ringwald's entire performance as Anne Frank rivals [[film/{{Scarface}} Tony Montana]] in terms of sheer scenery-chewing. [[HamAndCheese And it's part of the film's perverse charm.]]

Compare other such unfortunate films as ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic''.[[labelnote:*]]These movies ''are'' real though. So yeah, this page is a joke, but this sort of thing ''does'' happen.[[/labelnote]] Also see ''Disney/DerFuehrersFace'', another WWII-themed Disney short that actually played before this movie during it's brief theatrical run.

* AlanSmithee: The movie went through several directors during development and filming with all of them ultimately deciding to abandon the project which explains the film's uneven pacing and tones at points. Among the directors that worked on this project were Creator/TimBurton (who left to work on ''Film/{{Batman}}''), JerryLewis, and MelBrooks.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Anne's diary, Kitty, is personified as a small girl with cat ears and fangs. An odd case, as she goes back and forth between being a person and being a book, oftentimes with no regard for context. For example, when Sgt. Olga takes her away, she's a book- but just a few frames prior, she'd been a human. Even more damning, we later see her locked up in a cage... as a human.

** DonLaFontaine as a rabbi.

** One of the rabbis in the scene where the zombies break into the synagogue looks an awful lot like [[TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Ichabod Crane]] with a mustache.

* CanineCompanion: Olga's villainous dachshund, Mr. Goebbels.

* 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.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Disney has stated that they are considering adding Anne to the lineup of Franchise/{{Disney Princess}}es.
** Several recent preliminary sketches show Anne in a blue-and-silver striped satin gown (modeled on concentration camp attire) with gold star-of-David earrings and a matching gold pendant. However, Disney has said that if they go through with this (and really, they're having enough problems with perceptions of their accepted princesses) they will not have her holding a realistic weapon. One Disney cartoonist says that the company is considering having her hold a sparkly pink scroll with Hebrew lettering on it and calling it her Magical Mezuzah.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Private Ludvig is a zombie. [[CaptainObvious There were no zombies in WWII in real life.]]
** The zombies were explained on the DVD commentary--which was shot but which was never officially released. The zombies were Disney's subtle allusion to the Conscription Crisis of 1944, in which quite a number of Canadian soldiers refused to go on active duty. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1944#Introduction_of_conscription These reluctant soldiers were called, at the time, zombies]]. Disney wanted to show that the camp guards could be considered equally reluctant since they'd been deprived of souls and, for most of the movie, much of what we'd consider free will.

* 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]]

** Mickey Rooney as the Japanese soldier -- possibly an homage to his character in Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys.

* 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.

* HamToHamCombat: MollyRingwald versus {{Madonna}}, anyone?

* 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. Goebbels gets revenge by piddling on her ritual circle, culminating in Olga getting dragged down to Hell.

* LighterAndSofter: And ''how''.
** DarkerAndEdgier: It's still one of Disney's darker works overall.

* MisterMuffykins : Mr. Goebbels, Olga's dog.

** Caricatures of [[HogansHeroes Col Klink and Sgt Shultz]] can be spotted during the ballroom scene.

** At the end when the Americans ''FINALLY'' come, they mention something about a guy named [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers.]]
*** Also, the guy making the reference is named [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Private Barnes]].

* SpringtimeForHitler: One of Mel Brooks' contributions was a version of [[Film/TheProducers the trope namer]] being sung by various townspeople in the opening credits, concluding with the Frank family themselves.

** Molly Ringwald seems to have donned an accent akin to JeanClaudeVanDamme. She was a known Francophile, and thought it could add some verisimilitude to her performance.

* XMeetsY
** ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}''.
** ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'' meets ''Film/SchindlersList''.

* EveryBodyLives: Yes, everybody in Aushwitz does...

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no-one will hear them. Not only does she gleefully take her shoes off and leave them off for the rest of the film, she also holds her bare foot up toward the camera and wiggles her toes. Rumor has it that scene was traced over for Ariel's discovery of her feet in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no-one will hear them. Not only does she gleefully take her shoes off and leave them off for the rest of the film. Rumor has it that scene was traced over for Ariel's discovery of her feet in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no-one will hear them. Not only does she gleefully take her shoes off and leave them off for the rest of the film, we also get a few seconds of FootFocus. Rumor has it that scene was traced over for Ariel's discovery of her feet in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Sgt. Olga is very insistent that the name of her dachshund is Mr. Goebbels, 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.

'''''Disney's Anne Frank''''' is an[[note]]imaginary[[/note]] 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.

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]]

* 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.

* EyesDoNotBelongTHere: Josef Mengele's true form has eyes absolutely everywhere.

** Several recent preliminary sketches show Anne in a blue-and-silver striped satin gown (modeled on concentration camp attire) with gold star-of-David earrings and a matching gold pendant. However, Disney has said that they will not have her holding a realistic weapon. They are considering having her hold a sparkly pink scroll with Hebrew lettering on it and calling it her Magical Torah Scroll.

** The zombies were explained in the DVD commentary. They were Disney's subtle allusion to the Conscription Crisis of 1944, in which quite a number of Canadian soldiers refused to go on active duty. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1944#Introduction_of_conscription These reluctant soldiers were called, at the time, zombies]]. Disney wanted to show that the camp guards could be considered equally reluctant since they'd been deprived of souls and, for most of the movie, much of what we'd consider free will.

** TheDogBitesBack: Mr. Goebbles gets revenge by piddling on her ritual circle, culminating in Olga getting dragged down to Hell.

* 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.

** 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!

''Disney's Anne Frank'' is an[[note]]imaginary[[/note]] 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.

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 ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic''.[[labelnote:*]]These movies ''are'' real though. So yeah, this page is a joke, but this sort of thing ''does'' happen.[[/labelnote]] Also see ''DerFuehrersFace'', another WWII-themed Disney short that actually played before this movie during it's brief theatrical run.

!!This work contains examples of:

* 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: Elisabeth Shue, TomCruise, {{Madonna}}, WilliamShatner, Bette Midler, TimothyDalton, Steven Culp, Jason Alexander, and BobHope, just to name a few.
** Also featuring ChristopherLee in a cameo as AdolfHitler.

* AGodAmI: Josef Mengele plans to become the "Great Archangel of Humanity", essentially becoming this as he would be worshiped 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]].

* AnimatedMusical: With songs by Creator/MelBrooks, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, and PhilCollins. Yes, THAT PhilCollins.

* 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"...

** 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."

** Sgt. Hündin's surname means 'bitch' in German

* BloodlessCarnage:
** When Anne and Marie Rose are shot by Sgt. Olga.

* BumblingSidekick: Private Ludvig.

* 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:
** TimCurry has a brief yet memorable performance as Winston Churchill in the break dancing scene with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

** WillSmith as Jackie Robinson and ChristopherLee as (an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] and [[TheFaceless faceless]]) Adolf Hitler.
** StephenFry as Olga's pet gibbon.

** [[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.

*** One of the rabbis in the scene where the zombies break into the synagogue looks an awful lot like [[TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Ichabod Crane]] with a mustache.

* CatchPhrase: "Allright men, this is it.... TIME TO CLEAN OUT THE ATTIC!"

* DeadpanSnarker: {{Molly Ringwald}} as Anne, obviously. Peter gets his moments as well.
* {{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.

* DisneyAcidSequence:

* 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.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no one will hear them. Not only does she gleefully take her shoes off and leave them off for the rest of the film, we also get a few seconds of FootFocus. Rumor has it that scene was traced over for Ariel's discovery of her feet in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* 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).

* DraggedOffToHell:
** Sgt Olga, after her Necromancy magic backfires on her and the spirits of all those she enslaved drag her into hell.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
** Private Ludvig.

* EveryBodyLives: yes, everybody in Aushwitz does...
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Disney has stated that they are considering adding Anne to the lineup of [[{{Franchise/DisneyPrincess}} Disney Princesses]].

* Expy: Olga has a pair of contacts in Brussels, Belgium that she communicate with twice during the movie; a [[HerculePoirot portly, mustachioed gentleman]] and a [[TinTin boy with a white dog.]]

* 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.

* FallingInLoveMontage: During the AwardBaitSong "The Stars and Moon," as well as during "Leibchen (Means I Love You)."

* 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.]]

** Mickey Rooney as the Japanese soldier- possibly an homage to his character in Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys.

* 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.]]

* 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)

* 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.
** The part where Himmler is shown drinking blood of pure Nordic virgins to gain health.
* 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:

* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Anne Frank. She certainly wasn't ''unattractive'', but here she looks like one of the [[DisneyPrincess Disney Princesses.]]
* HumanoidAbomination:

** Josef Mengele, although his true form is a pure EldritchAbomination, although a [[SwansASwimming swan]] like one.

* 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.

* KilledOffForReal: Olga, Josef Mengele.

* 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:

* MST3KMantra: Invoked by then Disney CEO Michael Eisner after early criticisms of the movie; sadly, the re-branding to TouchstonePictures did little to help.

* 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]])

* 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.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The Nazi Succubi.
* 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.

* PunchClockVillain / JustFollowingOrders: Private Ludvig.

* ReligionIsMagic:

* ShoutOut:

** 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.]]

** 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.
** The marching band from the Donald Duck cartoon "''Der Furher's Face''" can be seen during "Life is Heil-arious", accompanying the occupation.

* 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.
* SpringtimeForHitler: One of Mel Brooks' contributions was a version of [[Film/TheProducers the trope namer]] being sung by various townspeople in the opening credits, concluding with the Frank family themselves.
* StockScream:

--> '''Narrator:''' "All this love... From the pages of Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl."

* VillainSong:

** [[Film/TheProducers Springtime for Hitler]] was originally in the [[DevelopmentHell Second]] HarlanEllison version of the script. And he wanted it to be sung by A NAZI [[BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]]! It eventually made it into the final film, albeit under different circumstances (see above).

* WhamLine:

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Klaus, the wisecracking Jewish rooster?
** Given the setting of this film, [[FridgeHorror what do you think happened to him?]]
* WideEyedIdealist: Anne
* WilhelmScream: An SS officer named Wilhelm falls off a ledge during the final battle. Guess what happens afterwards.

* XMeetsY: ''Theatre/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'' meets ''{{Anastasia}}''.
** ''ATrollInCentralPark'' meets ''SchindlersList''

''[[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels I do not want to see this film]], [[BlatantLies I do not want to see this film]], [[MadnessMantra I do not want to see this film...]]''

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: During the escape scene. It even has a mall, complete with German {{Valley Girl}}s out front. And a multiplex, showing.....Disneys Anne Frank.