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* IndecisiveDeconstruction: ''Happily N'Ever After'' is a Partial Deconstruction; it comes close to deconstructing the typical Creator/{{Disney}} fairytale storyline, but since it's a kids' movie couldn't go all the way.
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* MsFanservice: Frieda the Stepmother, surprisingly. She's got great legs and even shows some cleavage.

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* MsFanservice: Frieda the Stepmother, surprisingly. She's got great surprisingly, with her hourglass figure, shapely long legs and even shows some cleavage.prominent cleavage.
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[[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/happilyneverafter1_large.gif]] ''Happily N'Ever After'' is a 2007 animated film set in a troperiffic fairy tale land. Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s WickedStepmother gains control of the land's magic and uses it to cause all the fairy tales to have unhappy endings.

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''Happily N'Ever After'' is a 2007 animated film set in a troperiffic {{troperiffic}} fairy tale land. Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s WickedStepmother gains control of the land's magic and uses it to cause all the fairy tales to have unhappy endings.
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* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Frieda again.
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* FairyTaleFreeForAll: The film explores a world where the fairy tales exist side by side, and what would happen if the balance of power between good and evil were suddenly shifted.
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* PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdinck.

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* PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdinck.Humperdinck abandons Cinderella the second the spell wears off.
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The film was critically panned, and failed to make its budget back at the box office, but made enough in home video to justify a DirectToDVD sequel.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In ''Happily N'Ever After'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil, with no explanation given. Logically, the movie should take place before the first movie, since the dwarves already met Snow White; despite this, it is flat out said to happen AFTER the events of the first movie in the introduction.

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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In ''Happily N'Ever After'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil, with no explanation given. Logically, the movie should [[{{Prequel}} take place before the first movie, movie]], since the dwarves already met Snow White; despite this, it is flat out said to happen AFTER the events of the first movie in the introduction.
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''Happily N'Ever After'' is a 2007 animated film set in a troperiffic fairy tale land. Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s WickedStepmother gains control of the land's magic and uses it to cause all the fairy tales to have unhappy endings.

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[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/happilyneverafter1_large.gif]] ''Happily N'Ever After'' is a 2007 animated film set in a troperiffic fairy tale land. Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s WickedStepmother gains control of the land's magic and uses it to cause all the fairy tales to have unhappy endings.


* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In ''Happily N'Ever After'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil, [[TheyJustDidntCare with no explanation given]]. Logically, the movie should take place before the first movie, since the dwarves already met Snow White; despite this, it is flat out said to happen AFTER the events of the first movie in the introduction.

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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In ''Happily N'Ever After'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil, [[TheyJustDidntCare with no explanation given]].given. Logically, the movie should take place before the first movie, since the dwarves already met Snow White; despite this, it is flat out said to happen AFTER the events of the first movie in the introduction.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: If Lady Vain had just gotten married (to illustrate, Snow White was OK with this), she would've had a chance to have Snow White and King Cold killed off eventually and not be punished due to VillainWithGoodPublicity in play. Unfortunately....
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* BlondesAreEvil: Frieda.

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* AppleOfDiscord: The hero causes the wolves to fight over who is stronger with this.

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* AppleOfDiscord: The hero Rick causes the wolves to fight over who is stronger with this.



* BlondesAreEvil: The Stepmother.
* DamselInDistress: Played with. Prince Humperdink hopes Ella is one, but in the end she kicks more ass than he does.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rick
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted: the stepmother is pushed in a bottomless fiery pit, but she flies back to the room thanks to the scepter. [[spoiler: She's defeated when Ella push her in the dimensional portal.]]
* ForTheEvulz: The Evil stepmother Frieda decides to take over the Wizards' wand and give a bad ending to all the various fairy tales... for fun...

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* BlondesAreEvil: The Stepmother.
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* DamselInDistress: Played with. Prince Humperdink Humperdinck hopes Ella is one, but in the end she kicks more ass than he does.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rick
Rick and Mambo.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted: the stepmother Frieda is pushed in a bottomless fiery pit, but she flies back to the room thanks to the scepter. [[spoiler: She's defeated when Ella push her in the dimensional portal.]]
* ForTheEvulz: The Evil stepmother Frieda decides to take over the Wizards' wand and give a bad ending to all the various fairy tales... for fun...



* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: The Stepmother.

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* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: The Stepmother.Frieda.



* MsFanservice: Frieda's got the hourglass figure, with nicely shaped legs and cleavage.

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* MsFanservice: Frieda's Frieda the Stepmother, surprisingly. She's got the hourglass figure, with nicely shaped great legs and even shows some cleavage.



* PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdink.

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* PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdink.Humperdinck.
* ShoutOut: Prince Humperdinck's name is the same as another [[Film/ThePrincessBride Humperdinck]] we know.
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* BishonenLine: The EvilStepmother of this movie starts out ugly and is turned beautiful.

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* BishonenLine: The EvilStepmother WickedStepmother of this movie starts out ugly and is turned beautiful.

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''Happily N'Ever After'' is a 2007 animated film set in a troperiffic fairy tale land. Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s EvilStepmother gains control of the land's magic and uses it to cause all the fairy tales to have unhappy endings.

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''Happily N'Ever After'' is a 2007 animated film set in a troperiffic fairy tale land. Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s EvilStepmother WickedStepmother gains control of the land's magic and uses it to cause all the fairy tales to have unhappy endings.



* EvilStepmother: Ella's stepmother.




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* WickedStepmother: Ella's stepmother.
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* MsFanservice: Frieda's got the hourglass figure, with nice legs and a bit of cleavage.

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* MsFanservice: Frieda's got the hourglass figure, with nice nicely shaped legs and a bit of cleavage.
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* MsFanservice: Frieda has a rather nicely curvaceous, appealing figure.

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* MsFanservice: Frieda has Frieda's got the hourglass figure, with nice legs and a rather nicely curvaceous, appealing figure.bit of cleavage.
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* MsFanservice: Frieda has a rather nice shapely, appealing figure.

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* MsFanservice: Frieda has a rather nice shapely, nicely curvaceous, appealing figure.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Ella's stepsisters disappear early on in the film, despite the fact that their mother is the main villain.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ella's stepsisters disappear early on in the film, despite the fact that their mother is the main villain.
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* MsFanservice: Frieda has a rather shapely, appealing figure.

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* MsFanservice: Frieda has a rather nice shapely, appealing figure.
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* MsFanservice: Frieda has a rather shapely, appealing design.

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* MsFanservice: Frieda has a rather shapely, appealing design.figure.

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* BigBad: Frieda, the Evil Stepmother



* ForTheLulz: The Evil stepmother Frieda decides to take over the Wizards' wand and give a bad ending to all the various fairy tales... for fun...

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* ForTheLulz: ForTheEvulz: The Evil stepmother Frieda decides to take over the Wizards' wand and give a bad ending to all the various fairy tales... for fun...



* MsFanservice: The Stepmother has a rather appealing figure.

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* MsFanservice: The Stepmother Frieda has a rather shapely, appealing figure.design.
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* ArtEvolution: Inverted. The animation is much worse, on par with or worse than fellow sequel ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps 2'', ''Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' and the early ''TransformersGeneration2'' commercials.

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* ArtEvolution: Inverted. The animation is much worse, on par with or worse than fellow sequel ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps 2'', ''Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' and the early ''TransformersGeneration2'' ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'' commercials.

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* AllStarCast: Creator/SarahMichelleGellar as Ella, Creator/SigourneyWeaver as the Stepmother, Creator/PatrickWarburton as the Prince, Creator/GeorgeCarlin as the Wizard, Wallace Shawn and Andy Dick as the bumbling sidekicks, ...
** Freddie Prinze Jr as Rick, the ''main character''...



* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Both films were retitled in Brazil to fit the same format as the CompletelyDifferentTitle that had already been given to (the completely unrelated) ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}''.



* IndecisiveDeconstruction: ''Happily N'Ever After'' is a Partial Deconstruction; it comes close to deconstructing the typical {{Disney}} fairytale storyline, but since it's a kids' movie couldn't go all the way.

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* IndecisiveDeconstruction: ''Happily N'Ever After'' is a Partial Deconstruction; it comes close to deconstructing the typical {{Disney}} Creator/{{Disney}} fairytale storyline, but since it's a kids' movie couldn't go all the way.



* NamesTheSame: Prince Humperdink is also the name of the villain in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
* NonIndicativeName: The Italian title ("Cinderella and the 007 Dwarves") implies that the dwarves are important to the plot. They're not.






* ArtEvolution: Inverted. The animation is much worse, on par with or worse than fellow sequel ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps 2'', ''/Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' and the early ''TransformersGeneration2'' commercials.

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* ArtEvolution: Inverted. The animation is much worse, on par with or worse than fellow sequel ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps 2'', ''/Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' ''Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' and the early ''TransformersGeneration2'' commercials.



* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: If Lady Vain had just gotten married (to illustrate, Snow White was ok with this), she would've had a chance to have Snow White and King Cold killed off eventually and not be punished due to VillainWithGoodPublicity in play. Unfortuantely.....

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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: If Lady Vain had just gotten married (to illustrate, Snow White was ok OK with this), she would've had a chance to have Snow White and King Cold killed off eventually and not be punished due to VillainWithGoodPublicity in play. Unfortuantely.....Unfortunately....



* FranchiseKiller: Seriously, the humor is dumbed down to fairytale jokes, the CGI is worse, the characters are far more bland and the plot is extremely forced and childish compared to the original
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In ''Happily N'Ever After'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil, [[TheyJustDidntCare with no explanation given]].
** Logically, the movie should take place before the first movie, since the dwarves already met Snow White; despite this, it is flat out said to happen AFTER the events of the first movie in the introduction.
* TheOtherDarrin: None of the voice actors returned. Creator/KirkThornton replaced Wallace Shawn.

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* FranchiseKiller: Seriously, the humor is dumbed down to fairytale jokes, the CGI is worse, the characters are far more bland and the plot is extremely forced and childish compared to the original
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In ''Happily N'Ever After'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil, [[TheyJustDidntCare with no explanation given]].
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given]]. Logically, the movie should take place before the first movie, since the dwarves already met Snow White; despite this, it is flat out said to happen AFTER the events of the first movie in the introduction.
* TheOtherDarrin: None of the voice actors returned. Creator/KirkThornton replaced Wallace Shawn.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Ella's stepsisters disappear early on in the film, despite the fact that their mother is the main villain.

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* TheOtherDarrin: None of the voice actors returned. KirkThornton replaced Wallace Shawn.

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''Happily N'Ever After'' is a 2007 animated film set in a troperiffic fairy tale land. Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s EvilStepmother gains control of the land's magic and uses it to cause all the fairy tales to have unhappy endings.

The film was critically panned, and failed to make its budget back at the box office, but made enough in home video to justify a DirectToDVD sequel.
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!!''Happily N'Ever After'' provides examples of:

* AbnormalAmmo: The Dwarves use diamonds as ammo.
* {{Adorkable}}: Mambo
* AllNaturalGemPolish
* AllStarCast: Creator/SarahMichelleGellar as Ella, Creator/SigourneyWeaver as the Stepmother, Creator/PatrickWarburton as the Prince, Creator/GeorgeCarlin as the Wizard, Wallace Shawn and Andy Dick as the bumbling sidekicks, ...
** Freddie Prinze Jr as Rick, the ''main character''...
* AppleOfDiscord: The hero causes the wolves to fight over who is stronger with this.
* BlondesAreEvil: The Stepmother.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Both films were retitled in Brazil to fit the same format as the CompletelyDifferentTitle that had already been given to (the completely unrelated) ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}''.
* DamselInDistress: Played with. Prince Humperdink hopes Ella is one, but in the end she kicks more ass than he does.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rick
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted: the stepmother is pushed in a bottomless fiery pit, but she flies back to the room thanks to the scepter. [[spoiler: She's defeated when Ella push her in the dimensional portal.]]
* EvilStepmother: Ella's stepmother.
* ForTheLulz: The Evil stepmother Frieda decides to take over the Wizards' wand and give a bad ending to all the various fairy tales... for fun...
* FracturedFairyTale: The whole point of the film. Even when evil is vanquished and everybody gets a happy ending, not all of them are traditional (Ella, for instance, decides not to marry the Prince).
* GreekChorus: Mambo and Munk.
* HeroicSacrifice: Rick makes one for Ella in the climax.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: The Stepmother.
* IndecisiveDeconstruction: ''Happily N'Ever After'' is a Partial Deconstruction; it comes close to deconstructing the typical {{Disney}} fairytale storyline, but since it's a kids' movie couldn't go all the way.
* LimitedAnimation: Largely due to sending animation to several studios even though it had a moderate budget.
* NamesTheSame: Prince Humperdink is also the name of the villain in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
* NonIndicativeName: The Italian title ("Cinderella and the 007 Dwarves") implies that the dwarves are important to the plot. They're not.
* OffModel: The film had [[Creator/{{MrX}} three]] [[Creator/{{Nitrogen}} Canadian]] [[Creator/BardelEntertainment studios]] and one [[Creator/PolygonPictures Japanese]] studio. This is the result.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Notable aversion: as soon as her mooks fail to capture Elle, Frieda decides to go after her herself.
* OurTrollsAreDifferent: Huge, dumb monsters with bunny ears.
* PimpedOutDress: Cinderella's [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration magically made]] dress, which is {{Pink|MeansFeminine}}.
* PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdink.
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!!''Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite @ the Apple'' provides examples of:

* ArtEvolution: Inverted. The animation is much worse, on par with or worse than fellow sequel ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps 2'', ''/Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' and the early ''TransformersGeneration2'' commercials.
* AscendedExtra: The 7 Dwarfs. They appeared in a scene in the first film.
* BishonenLine: The EvilStepmother of this movie starts out ugly and is turned beautiful.
* BlackBestFriend: Bo Peep to Snow White. Also, Little Red Riding Hood seems to be Snow White's Arab Best Friend, complete with headscarf-esque hood.
* ContinuityNod[=/=]TheCameo: A picture of Ella and Rick.
* DancePartyEnding: The song even has "dance party" in the lyrics.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: If Lady Vain had just gotten married (to illustrate, Snow White was ok with this), she would've had a chance to have Snow White and King Cold killed off eventually and not be punished due to VillainWithGoodPublicity in play. Unfortuantely.....
* DisproportionateRetribution: Lady Vain tries to kill Snow White for being more humble than before, to illustrate, Snow White was actually ok with her marriage as long as her dad was ok with it. Lady Vain basically threw away her chance to rule for her own [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]].
* FranchiseKiller: Seriously, the humor is dumbed down to fairytale jokes, the CGI is worse, the characters are far more bland and the plot is extremely forced and childish compared to the original
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: In ''Happily N'Ever After'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil, [[TheyJustDidntCare with no explanation given]].
** Logically, the movie should take place before the first movie, since the dwarves already met Snow White; despite this, it is flat out said to happen AFTER the events of the first movie in the introduction.
* TheOtherDarrin: None of the voice actors returned. KirkThornton replaced Wallace Shawn.
* VillainBall: Lady Vain was going to become queen, even Snow White, who had gotten past her own selfishness, was going to allow the marriage, but then she just had to decide to kill her
* WalkThroughTheCamera: A scene where a group of trolls begin walking toward a light shining at the castle. A pink one walks into the camera and walks back out.
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