History JustForFun / DisneysAnneFrank

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: No, ''really?''

* CriticalResearchFailure: Which, in itself, is a symptom of Disneyfication (see below).
** Sgt Olga drives a car that closely resembles a Jaguar XK 120, which in addition to being a British car, was not produced until 1948.
** Even though a young Will Smith's voice cameo provided a small 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 murdered in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.
** There's one cut of the film where Sgt Olga and Josef Mengele marry. He already had a wife called Irene Schöbein, who doesn't appear in any version of the movie.

* HornyDevils: There are Nazi succubi... in a Disney movie.

* 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.]]

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* SeldomSeenSpecies: A gibbon appears in Olga's office, implied to be her pet, where it gets attacked by an angry Mr. Goebbels in a wacky chase scene. The gibbon's vocalizations were provided by none other than Creator/StephenFry!

* FreezeFrameBonus: Some of the marching German soldiers have armbands with the crossed hammers from [[Music/TheWall Pink Floyd: The Wall]] instead of a swastika.

* LullReduction: This movie has an impossibly large cast, a once-simple plot [[KudzuPlot twisted and overburdened]] by ExecutiveMeddling, [[UpToEleven 29 musical numbers]], and yet is [[BeyondTheImpossible only 96 minutes long]]. ''Every second'' has either someone talking, someone singing, someone moving, a scene change, or -- in the case of the German army's march -- all of the above.

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.

* LullReduction: This movie has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters an impossibly large cast]], a once-simple plot [[KudzuPlot twisted and overburdened]] by ExecutiveMeddling, [[UpToEleven 29 musical numbers]], and yet is [[BeyondTheImpossible only 96 minutes long]]. ''Every second'' has either someone talking, someone singing, someone moving, a scene change, or -- in the case of the German army's march -- all of the above.

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

* 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."

* GirlsHaveCooties: Josef Mengele believed this when he was young.

* HomeAloneAntics: The Annex members subject Karl Silberbauer and his [[NoNameGiven unnamed accomplice]] to a series of {{Booby Trap}}s stewn about , culimating in a StaircaseTumble.

** Kaiser Vilhelm and Sgt. Olga, especially during her VillainousBreakdown.

** Olga's muscular older brother's name is "Ronald" and he has a very Schwarzenegger-like voice.

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Various songs in the film are questionable in their relevance to the story. The most egrigous offender is "That Reminds Me Of A Song" (sic), a duet between Kitty and Anne in which the the former tries to cheer the latter up with a {{medley}} of [[NothingButHits the most popular songs of that era]].

* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: Surprisingly ''not'' Disney this time, but the Anne Frank Fonds at the time this film was made. The ''[[OldShame other]]'' reason for this film's absence from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon is because it was produced under the assumption that ''Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl'' was in the PublicDomain, unaware it needed to be authorized by the Anne Frank Fonds. When the latter group filed their claims, [[PowerfulAndHelpless Disney's legal team knew they had no chance]]: not only were they clearly in the wrong, but the public backlash would have been too severe had it been taken to court (not to mention the film itself being UnderminedByReality). Therefore, they agreed on an undisclosed settlement, along with heavy royalties and stipulations with each copy of the film.

* {{Diary}}

* SeldomSeenSpecies: A [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys gibbon]] appears in Olga's office, implied to be her pet, where it gets attacked by an angry Mr. Goebbels in a wacky chase scene. The gibbon's vocalizations were provided by none other than Creator/StephenFry!

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 [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsay Ellis]] 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]]

*** 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.

-->"[[Theatre/{{Cabaret}} Tomorrow belongs to]] ''[[[[Theatre/{{Cabaret}} us]]'' [[[[Theatre/{{Cabaret}} now]]."

* ExcessiveEvilEyeMakeup: Sgt. Olga, who wears burgundy lipstick so dark it's almost black, and has swooping silver eyeshadow.

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

* DeathByIrony: Josef Menegle takes the form of a swan as a OneWingedAngel, and is shot out of the sky... like a bird.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: The first soul to [[DraggedOffToHell drag Sgt. Olga off to Hell]]? Her very first victim: The unscrupulous business partner that ruined her family's fortune in the living.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: {{Justified|Trope}}; Sgt. Olga spends the bulk of the film trying to capture (and later kill) Anne Frank, and is thus Anne's greatest personal threat. Anne doesn't even see [[BigBad Josef Menegle]] until TheClimax.

* ImagineSpot: After listening to Winston Churchill's Autumn 1942 radio broadcast, the Annex residents imagine themselves on various WWII battles while singing "This Is Not The End (But The End Of Beginning)". This includes [[ArtisticLicenseHistory battles that historically wouldn't have occurred until later in the war]], including the Normandy landings and the Battle of Iwo Jima; clearly, Disney was going for SmallReferencePools.

** "This Is Not The End (But The End Of Beginning)" is reprised as "This Is The End (The Beginning Of The End)" during the Aushwitz liberation scene, with the Annex members leading the vocals, and [[CrowdSong the rest of the prisoners making up the chorus]].

** "This Is Not The End" is [[CrowdSong reprised by all of the Aushwitz prisoners]], with the Annex members leading the vocals, as the concentration camp is being liberated. The lyrics are changed to reflect that it's "the beginning of the end".

* 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.