Beware of unmarked spoilers!
- Each of the twelve sisters is associated with a flower. Lacey's is an Easter lily. It clues the audience about the link between Lacey and resurrection when she saves her father.
- Rowena's name comes from a figure in the Matter of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Like her mythological counterpart, Duchess Rowena is a treacherous femme fatale with a penchant for poisons and psychological manipulation, scheming her way into becoming queen and taking on a Wicked Stepmother role to the rightful heirs.
- At least one set of commentators
have likened Rowena to the "Karen of Barbie". While the "Karen" meme came to prominence over a decade after this movie, Rowena does bear resemblance to another well-known Karen. Remember the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes? In a behind-the-scenes feature for the DVD, the choreographers specifically say that Rowena's ultimate fate as she and Desmond forcibly dance out of the castle was dubbed The Red Shoes.
- So if Rowena and Desmond's final fate is to dance forever, how long will it take before they inevitably die of exhaustion, starvation, thirst, or any combination of the three? Assuming they don't accidentally dance off a cliff or into a body of water large enough to drown in first.
- Can they eat/drink while they're dancing? It seems pretty impractical and certainly poses a choking hazard, but hey, it is a magic spell.
- One of the things Rowena lists that the princesses need educating on is style. Randolph seems to be in agreement to everything she's saying, so if he agrees that the princesses need better style, why didn't he question Rowena's decision to take away their colourful dresses and replace them with gray, featureless robes?
- On that note, why did Randolph just blindly go along with everything Rowena did? The princesses weren't keeping up a Stepford Smiler act for his sake; the aforementioned scene occurs after Genevieve opens up to him that she and her sisters aren't happy. On that note, even if he was too ill to tend to any of the birthday festivities for the triplets, surely he would have asked Rowena what they were doing to celebrate? Especially considering the tradition of the princesses receiving a special book made by his wife, the late queen, for their fifth birthdays (the age that the triplets were turning).
