History JustForFun / DisneysAnneFrank

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For the Disney Renaissance. It was in production the same time as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and both Music/AlanMenken and Howard Ashman were too preoccupied with that project to lend their hand in this one. Therefore, this film uses all of the tropes found in Disney's films during this period, but without [[TropeCodifier an understanding how to apply them]]; at times, it resembles more like Disney's imitators, such as ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' or ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For the Disney Renaissance. It was in production the same time as ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and both Music/AlanMenkin and Howard Ashman were too preoccupied with that project to lend their hand in this one. Therefore, this film uses all of the tropes found in Disney's films during this period, but without [[TropeCodifier an understanding how to apply them]]; at times, it resembles more like Disney's imitators, such as ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' or ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''.

** Mrs. Van Pels appears to be an inspiration for [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Mrs. Potts]], albeit [[TheDitz ditzier]] and [[TheFriendNoOneLikes more abrasive]].

** Mr. and Mrs. Frank resemble [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Papa and Mama Mousewitz]] respectively, right down to the designs and voices.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. The scene where Ludvig pushes Olga off the tower is shot like one, but Olga survives it. However, see DraggedOffToHell below.

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

** The Goofy holler is used near the end, when the last Jew in the queue is kicked into the shower.

!!''Disney's Anne Frank'' provides examples of the following:

* 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|1989}}''), Creator/JerryLewis, and Creator/MelBrooks.
* 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 ''WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace'' and ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath''.

* AllStarCast: Creator/TomCruise, Music/{{Madonna}}, Bob Hope, and Jason Alexander just to name a few.

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

** Olga's mooks say things like "I wanted to be a violinist...", and "Did you used to kiss your mommy with that mouth?!"

** The Weather Girls, performing the musical number ''Israeli Men'', a reworking of their 1983 hit ''It's Raining Men''.
* CanonDiscontinuity: [[DependingOnTheWriter Usually]] not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon page. In fact, when Disney included the original trailer of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' 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. Nowadays, it seems that's the only version of the trailer they'll let the public see.

** The fact that Sgt Olga and Josef Mengele marry. He already had a wife called Irene Schöbein, who doesn't appear in the movie.

* 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 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.
** Might also be a bit of wordplay on [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kadavergehorsam Kadavergerhorsam]], literally '[[UndyingLoyalty corpselike loyalty]]' which was officially how Nazi underlings in real life were supposed to behave but rarely did.

* 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 monster Olga became. [[spoiler:The business partner later became Olga's first experiment in necromancy.]]
* 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''.

** Sgt. Olga Hündin. Helps that she serves an angel.

** 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.

* 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 ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', another movie that treats the Holocaust in a humorous fashion, albeit much more successfully.

* TheStarscream: Josef Mengele for the Nazis, as his experiments turn him into a OneWingedAngel powerful enough to overthrow the Führer...

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

** What happened to Klaus, the wisecracking Jewish rooster? [[spoiler:Given the setting of this film, [[FridgeHorror what do you think happened to him?]] Sgt. Olga eats chicken soup in a later scene, so...]]

* 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.
** "Dial Up Ze Nazi" includes this verse sung to the tune of the actual "Horst Wessel Lied": "So let's go nuts/Let's kill some lying traitors/Shots through their heads/Are straight shots to my heart/I'll write my number on/Your arm, so call me later/We'll meet tonight, perhaps we'll never part/You want a German girl?/There's just one way to date her./Send an air raid to rain down Cupid's dart."
** One of the prisoners is heavily implied to be one of the many homosexual victims of the Nazi regime.

''Disney's Anne Frank'' is an[[note]]imaginary[[/note]] animated film released by Creator/{{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 outside of two home video releases (once in 1990 and once in 2003) and once-in-a-blue-moon TV airings (and both home video releases have ''no reviews on the box at all'', a la ''Film/{{Gigli}}''), and is the company's second-most infamous film after ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' and ''JustForFun/AladdinIVJafarMayNeedGlasses''.

This film has a rather fascinating behind the scenes history, though.[[note]]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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''), and serious-toned stories (such as ''WesternAnimation/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.[[/note]] Please keep the sensitive nature of this topic in mind.[[note]]Feel free to add whatever you'd like, but the tone should be that of a sincere, but extremely misguided, effort by a studio that didn't think too hard about the UnfortunateImplications. 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.[[/note]]

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

Compare to ''JustForFun/AladdinIVJafarMayNeedGlasses'', which is a similarly infamous animated movie that Disney has gone out of their way to bury, and ''JustForFun/AnneFrankVampire'', another[[note]]fictional[[/note]] supernaturally-inflected version of Anne's story with a much darker tone and more graphic violence.

!!''Disney's Anne Frank'' provides examples of the following tropes:

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

* 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.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Josef Mengele was, in real life, nothing more than a pseudoscientific butcher. Here, he's portrayed as trying to unlock the next stage of human evolution with his "experiments" ([[spoiler:and partially succeeds, becoming an angel in the climax]].)
* 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|1989}}''), Creator/JerryLewis, and Creator/MelBrooks.

* AllLovingHero: Anne

* AmericaWonWorldWarII: 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.
** After Anne and Peter get married, it is revealed in a newsreel-style montage that America won the war against Germany and Japan in the next month (Italy got cut from the Axis powers for some reason,) and with next to no bloodshed.

** 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 [[Film/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 Phil Collins. Yes, THAT Music/PhilCollins.
* 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.
* ArcWords: "Deep down, I believe everyone is good at heart."- Anne
* ArtisticLicenseHistory

* AwardBaitSong
** "Living Free (Until the Nazis Find Us Again)" Even though, as pointed out in the [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nostalgia Chick]][=/=]WebVideo/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"...
** Also, Marie-Rose Blanche's ''Film/ChariotsOfFire''-style song "Endurance", which she sings as motivation during Anne's seize on Auschwitz.
** 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 '80s-music video-esque DisneyAcidSequence for "Leibchen."

* BigBad: Josef Mengele is the true master mind behind everything.

* BilingualBonus

** 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.

* BloodlessCarnage

** The Auschwitz uprising. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It helps that 9 out of 10 guards are zombies]].
* BondOneLiner: Anne has quite a few, given her [[Creator/MollyRingwald actress.]]

* 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 severely disappointing reaction to the film by critics and audiences, production was quickly ended and the animated sequences that were completed were retrofitted into other Disney works.
* TheCameo
** Creator/TimCurry has a brief yet memorable performance as Winston Churchill in the breakdancing scene with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

** Creator/WillSmith as Jackie Robinson and Creator/ChristopherLee as (an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] and [[TheFaceless faceless]]) Adolf Hitler.

** [[Music/TheBeatles Paul McCartney]] has a very brief and uncredited one as [[Film/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.
** 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 allusion to a (then) future Disney film, ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', where a clock in the background of Olga's office looks a lot like Cogsworth.
*** The old gypsy in the beginning also looks a lot like an older, gray-haired Clopin from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', although he's more pointy and sinister-looking here.

** Leni Riefenstahl (producer of Nazi-Propaganda movies) showed up in one comedic scene, voiced by herself.

* CanonDiscontinuity: [[DependingOnTheWriter Usually]] not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon page. In fact, when Disney included the original trailer of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' 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. Nowadays it seems that's the only version of the trailer they'll let the public see.
* CartoonBomb: Thrown by Sgt. Olga to take out Anne and Peter during 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 PaperThinDisguise).

* CreativeClosingCredits: Throughout the closing credits there are short throwaway gags of Sgt. Olga attempting to capture Anne, usually resulting in Olga being [[AmusingInjuries injured]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: Which, in itself, is a symptom of Disneyfication (see below)

** Even though a young Will Smith's voice cameo provided a small Moment Of Awesome, not only did Jackie Robinson not become a Brooklyn Dodger until 1947, why would he even be in Amsterdam?

** 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, who doesn't appear in the movie...

* DisneyAcidSequence

* DisneyDeath

%%%* {{Disneyfication}}:
* Franchise/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.

* DraggedOffToHell

*** 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.
%%%* EarnYourHappyEnding:
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Sgt. Olga. Why? Well, in an early version of the plot, she was supposed to be the [[{{Dhampyr}} half-vampire daughter of Hitler,]] hence the pale skin from the vampire side and the black hair from Hitler, but that was dropped when the writers realized she would have to be much younger. But they kept the look, 'cuz it looked evil.

** Private Ludvig
** Josef Mengele keeps a photo of his parents [[NauseaFuel etched into his chest.]][[invoked]]

* EverybodyLives: Yes, everybody in Auschwitz does...
** ThoseWackyNazis, not so much.
* 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.
* EvilIsHammy: St. Olga.
* {{Expy}}: Olga has a pair of contacts in Brussels, Belgium that she communicates with twice during the movie; a [[Literature/HerculePoirot portly, mustachioed gentleman]] and a [[Franchise/{{Tintin}} boy with a white dog.]]

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

* GeniusBonus: This verse from "Dance of the Grateful Flesh": "I've mastered war./Keep Sun Tzu und Clausewitz./I can win/With zombies built in Auschwitz."

* {{Ghostapo}}

* 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.
* GrammarNazi

** Sgt. Olga was ''supposed'' to make one... See VillainousBreakdown below for more on this.

* 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... Kinda ironic actually.

* JewishMother: Both Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Van Pels, but especially Mrs. Van Pels
* 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.

* LargeHam

* LastMinuteHookUp

* MoralSociopathy: Josef Mengele. Of courses, emphasis on [[TheSociopath "Sociopathy"]].

** The opening has one, played to the song "[[IAmSong Anne]] [[TitleDrop Frank]]."
* MST3KMantra: Invoked by then Disney CEO Michael Eisner after early criticisms of the movie; sadly, the re-branding to Creator/TouchstonePictures did little to help.

* NonHumanSidekick

* 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 ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', another movie that treats the holocaust in a humorous fashion, albeit much more successfully.
* OffModel: All over the place, especially on Anne's parents during the song "Block Party."
* OneBookAuthor: The only film animated by Walt Disney Feature Animation New York City, the most obscure of the Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits (their only other credits are uncredited work on ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 DuckTales]]''). 90% of the animation staff from the unit (with the exceptions of Jim Jinkins and Michael Sporn) aren't credited for much else, allegedly they answered a newspaper ad placed by Buena Vista International under the false name of "Animation Control Corp."

* ReligionIsMagic

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Mr. Goebbels declines to share Olga's final fate -- which, given that she was attempting to sacrifice him just before, is pretty understandable.

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

** During the flashback of how Ludvig was reborn, the scientists both have "Herr 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!

** 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 Private Barnes]].

** The Nazi uniform buttons feature hidden Mickeys in three separate scenes.

* 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 (that was never used eventually) was a version of [[Film/TheProducers the trope namer]] being sung by various townspeople in the opening credits, concluding with the Frank family themselves. (It was replaced with a song simply titled "Anne Frank".)
** Rumor has it Molly Ringwald knew what kind of movie she was getting involved in, and decided to make her performance intentionally hammy. It didn't work out as she anticipated, and there was even talk of a Razzie nomination for Worst Actress of the Decade.

* StockScream

* StorybookOpening: Used as a reference to previous Franchise/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.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''Hellz yeah.'''

** Originally, Sgt. Olga was supposed to [[BreakTheBeliever realize that she was wrong and what she had done was evil,]] and then decide she was beyond forgiveness and [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide by throwing herself into the well of souls who's deaths she contributed to,]] but [[ExecutiveMeddling the producers decided that be too dark for a Disney movie,]] and cut out the bit where she sees that she and her ideology are evil, decides she's beyond forgiveness, and jumps, leaving the "DraggedOffToHell" scene in... But they kept in some of the breakdown, which makes a heck of a lot less sense without the fallout or the HeelRealization.
* VillainSong

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

** There was a planned song that Hitler would have sung called "Mein Kampf" but was cut and Hitler was made TheFaceless.
* 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

* WideEyedIdealist: Anne

* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: Anne can't get on a ride in the opening montage, so she does...[[TotemPoleTrench some]][[PaperThinDisguise thing]]. When they are walking onto the ride, Anne almost does a SneezeOfDoom, but luckily it's [[AntiSneezeFinger averted.]]

* CanonDiscontinuity: [[DependingOnTheWriter Usually]] not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon page. In fact, when Disney included the original trailer of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1'' 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. Nowadays it seems that's the only version of the trailer they'll let the public see.

* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: A lot of these, due to the low animation budget. Disney was pouring most of its resources into ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no one will hear them. Not only does Anne 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1''.

* LightIsNotGood: [[MadDoctor Josef]] [[ManInWhite Mengele]], who is actually an angel.

* 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.

* OneBookAuthor: The only film animated by Walt Disney Feature Animation New York City, the most obscure of the Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits (their only other credits are uncredited work on ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 DuckTales]]'').

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 ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' again before this movie.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon page. In fact, when Disney included the original trailer of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1'' 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. Nowadays it seems that's the only version of the trailer they'll let the public see.

* BlackMagic

* BumblingSidekick: Private Ludvig

* ButtMonkey: Ludvig

* TheStarscream: Josef Mengele for the Nazis.

* TakingTheBullet: Anne for Peter.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Klaus, the wisecracking Jewish rooster? [[spoiler:Given the setting of this film, [[FridgeHorror what do you think happened to him?]]]]

* PunchClockVillain / JustFollowingOrders: Private Ludvig

* CanonDiscontinuity: Not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon page. In fact, when Disney included the original trailer of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidI'' 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. Nowadays it seems that's the only version of the trailer they'll let the public see.

* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: A lot of these, due to the low animation budget. Disney was pouring most of its resources into ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidI''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no one will hear them. Not only does Anne 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidI''.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas

This film has a rather fascinating behind the scenes history, though.[[note]]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.[[/note]] Please keep the sensitive nature of this topic in mind.[[note]]Feel free to add whatever you'd like, but the tone should be that of a sincere, but extremely misguided, effort by a studio that didn't think too hard about the UnfortunateImplications. 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.[[/note]]

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

* 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 ''Disney/DerFuehrersFace'' and ''Disney/EducationForDeath''.

** 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 allusion to a (then) future Disney film, ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', where a clock in the background of Olga's office looks a lot like Cogsworth.
*** The old gypsy in the beginning also looks a lot like an older, gray-haired Clopin from Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', although he's more pointy and sinister-looking here.
** One of the rabbis in the scene where the zombies break into the synagogue looks an awful lot like [[Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Ichabod Crane]] with a mustache.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own Franchise/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. Nowadays it seems that's the only version of the trailer they'll let the public see.

* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: A lot of these, due to the low animation budget. Disney was pouring most of its resources into ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no one will hear them. Not only does Anne 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''.
* TheDogBitesBack

* {{Disneyfication}}: Yeah.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: And how.

* [[GirlsHaveCooties Girls Have Poison Germs]]: Josef Mengele believed this when he was young.
* AGodAmI: Josef Mengele plans to become the "Great Archangel of Humanity", essentially becoming this as he would be worshiped by everyone.

* GreyEyes: Sgt. Olga, of the "stern, steely, ideas-over-people" type.

** 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 [b]clearly[/b] stated that they had to try to be as quiet as possible.

** Actually, given Lorenz's penchant for quotes and aphorisms in foreign languages, every other word he says falls into this category.
** Olga's mooks say things like "I wanted to be a violinist...", and "Did you use to kiss your mommy with that mouth?!"

* 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!''

* 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 severely 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.

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

** [[Music/TheBeatles Paul McCartney]] has a very brief and uncredited one as [[Film/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.
** 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.
*** The the old gypsy in the beginning also looks a lot like an older, gray-haired Clopin from Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', although he's more pointy and sinister looking here.

** Michael Eisner in a split second cameo at the end as an unnamed character in the background saying "somebody ought to make a movie about this".
** And Leni Riefenstahl (producer of Nazi-Propaganda movies) showed up in one comedic scene, voiced by herself.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Not listed in the official films by Disney. Reportedly, they even asked that this site not list it on our own Franchise/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. Nowadays that seems like the only version of the trailer they'll let the public see.
* 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.

* ChekhovsGun: An Auschiwtz guard literally named Chekov is shown to often forget his gun at the guard common room. In the climax, Chekov forgets his gun once again, allowing him and his commanding officer to get eaten as well as letting Anne obtain a weapon to fight off the zombies.

** The fact that Sgt Olga and Josef Mengele marry. He already had a wife called Irene Schöbein, which doesn't appear in the movie...

** 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 psychedelic lights and the singing deformed victims must definitely invoke this.

** When Marie-Rose Blanche dies, she gives a big long final speech to Lorenz. She winds up coming BackFromTheDead, however.

* Franchise/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.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Anne. Her father says that everyone must go barefoot in the attic so no-one will hear them. Not only does Anne 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''.

* AllStarCast: Creator/TomCruise, Music/Madonna, Bob Hope, and Jason Alexander just to name a few.

* 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}}''), Creator/JerryLewis, and Creator/MelBrooks.

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* {{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.]]

* BalloonBelly: During her VillainSong in a beer hall, Sgt. Olga enthusiastically guzzles down bigger and bigger mugs throughout, resulting in a huge one of these by the end.

** Anne gets one after stuffing herself after the initial escape from Auschwitz. To be fair, she ''had'' been starved.