If it were not for the Disney/Lucasfilm merger, this film would have been a critical and commercial success.
This film is part of a trilogy.
In 2018, there will be a critically-panned CG movie released under Touchstone in which Much Ado About Nothing is re-enacted by World War II gremlins. This will complete the "Disney-Disowned Shakespeare Romance Movie" trilogy started by Gnomeo & Juliet and continued with Strange Magic. The movie will become a Cult Classic.
It's started showing signs of one when it had only been out for a couple days. The love potion only exists to be Aesoptinum In-Universe.
The love potion from the movie stops working when the person it is used on is already in love, also the potion's creator the Sugar Plum Fairy does not like it to be used to create "random" love like when the Imp uses it. It doesn't work when the person it is used on has true loving feelings so it's not good for matchmaking and it's not meant to be used for "fun" so why does the Sugar Plum Fairy make the potion? To teach people that love can't be rushed, people who use it see how fake and shallow and annoying the "love" it creates is and how real love will always destroy it. The potion does help spread and create love in the world because it teaches people how to really be in love, not to rely on "fake" love.- The potion also wears off after a while, as a safe guard in case they don't learn the lesson right away. It can kick start a romance, but it can't sustain it alone because, as we well know, there are no shortcuts to love.
Goblins are sensitive to high-pitched noises.
Dawn's singing isn't painful to them because they are averse to music. It's because she's a soprano. Eventually, her reputation will spread, and every goblin will immediately surrender to her if she takes a deep breath. Fairies migrate in the winter...
Like butterflies do. Or possibly hibernate. Goblins may or may not hibernate as well. One of Bog's distant ancestors was an Ent.
Look at that bark-like exoskeleton, those leafy brows, the pinecone-like shoulders, and tell me he doesn't look like part of his family tree included an actual tree. Goblins have a more racially-egalitarian society than fairies do.
We see a lot of different types of goblins in the movie, suggesting the Dark Forest Castle to be an equal-opportunity employer. The Fairy Kingdom, on the other hand, has a noticeable Fantastic Caste System dividing the fairies and elves, and presumably the other races. Dawn and Sunny will get married before Bog and Marianne do.
They're younger, but they've also known each other longer, and since Dawn isn't the direct heir to the throne and Sunny isn't royalty at all (so far as we know), there will be slightly less pressure on them and their wedding than there will be on Marianne and Bog's. The next castle in the Dark Forest will be closer to the border.
That way it will be easier for Bog and Marianne to rule both kingdoms when they move in together. Fairies and goblins have different diets.
Fairies are herbivores. Goblins are carnivores or omnivores. This is one of the reasons their kingdoms stay so separated. Dawn's wings are inspired by a Monarch butterfly. Marianne's wings are inspired by a Purple Emperor or Blue Morpho butterfly.
Bog is not wearing armor.
He's naked, like the majority of other goblins. What appears to be armor is really exoskeletal plates. Thang thought Stuff was a Bishounen.
He thought Stuff was pretty, but also that Stuff was a guy, hence his surprise at the Gender Reveal. At some point, Griselda tried to set Stuff up with Bog.
Stuff is one of the few females with whom Bog interacts regularly, and Griselda hoped something might happen there, but Stuff wasn't interested in a non-professional relationship, so Bog never found out. That's one of the reasons Stuff is eager to avoid Griselda at the start of the movie. Goblins and fairies cannot interbreed.
If Bog and Marianne want kids, they will adopt. Fairies and goblins can have hybrid children, and Bog King is one of them
Think about it, none of the other goblins we've seen have wings and we know nothing about Bog's father. It explains him being self conscious about his appearance since he grew up with goblin ideals of beauty. It also explains why his mother is so comfortable with him being in an inter species relationship, she used to be in one. Several of the girls she tried to introduce him to were insect creatures that were apparently different from goblins. Bog is adopted.
He doesn't resemble Griselda much at all.- This was one of the ideas explored in the production of the movie, but didn't make the final cut, so it may or may not be canon.
The Fairy King will get a taste of his own medicine...
... when it comes to being pressured to get married. Because his daughters have both opted for Interspecies Romance, bigots and beauty-snobs among the fairies will start demanding that the widowed king remarry, and father an heir who won't end up paired with an elf or goblin. Whether or not he gives in to such pressures will depend on how entrenched his own Fantastic Racism turns out to be.