Trivia / Happily N'Ever After

• All-Star Cast: The English dub has Sarah Michelle Gellar as Ella, Sigourney Weaver as the Stepmother, Patrick Warburton as the Prince, George Carlin as the Wizard, Wallace Shawn and Andy Dick as the bumbling sidekicks...and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Rick, the main character...
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $47 million. Box office, $15,589,393 (domestic), $38,085,778 (worldwide).
• Completely Different Title: Both films were retitled in Brazil to fit the same format as the Completely Different Title that had already been given to (the completely unrelated) Hoodwinked!.
  • In Italy, it became "Cinderella and the 007 Dwarves."
• Creator Backlash: Paul Bolger, the director, stated that he hated the final product because Executive Meddling made it Lighter and Softer than he wanted.
• Creator Killer: Vanguard Animation didn't last very long after this film cursed their reputation.
• Direct to Video: The sequel was this, as opposed to the original's theatrical release.
• Franchise Killer: The sequel. 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. And it doesn't help that the original film didn't do very well to begin with.
• Kids' Meal Toy: It got Burger King toys in Europe.
• No Budget: The second film.
• No Export for You: The film was never released in Japan, despite the hair setups being done by a Japanese studio.
• Non-Indicative Name: The Italian title for the first movie ("Cinderella and the 007 Dwarves") implies that the dwarves are important to the plot. They're not.
• The Other Darrin: None of the voice actors returned for the sequel. Kirk Thornton replaced Wallace Shawn.
• What Could Have Been: This feature was originally conceived as a feature adaptation of Simsala Grimm.

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