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  • Awesome Music:
    • Anastasia's songs, "In the Sun" and "You'll Be With Me in My Heart". Having a beautiful voice helps.
    • "Prince Charmless" is also a good song. It has a good melody and singing, and the song is quite catchy.
  • Captain Obvious Reveal:
    • Prince Paul and Cheka were the same character all along. It would have been a good twist had Paul not appeared Obviously Evil or constantly being accompanied by Cheka’s goons and pet crow. Not helping the fact that Paul’s voice actor didn’t even bother to differentiate his voice from Cheka’s.
    • The living musical instruments were Anastasia’s deceased family’s spirits. They all physically resemble the royal family, and they outright say each other’s names that practically give away their identities from the start.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • A red-haired princess who has two men interested in her, and is unaware that one of them is an evil Prince Charmless who's only using her for a more sinister agenda? That also happens in Frozen.
    • Speaking of Disney, a princess uses the power of singing in order to revive her love interest from death. Are we talking about The Secret of Anastasia or Tangled?
  • Most Wonderful Sound: The singing voice of Anastasia. For a direct-to-video mockbuster, they managed to find a genuinely talented singer to voice her.
  • Special Effect Failure: When Anastasia sings "In the Sun" for first time, she and her instruments are colored black and blue, without details. That coloring can be noted easily.
  • Strangled by the Red String: Anastasia and Vladimir. They barely establish their romantic feelings for one another during their time together. At one point, they openly state that they're falling in love with each other when Vladimir is teaching her how to act like a princess. It also doesn't help that Vladimir was a soldier serving the Tsar while Anastasia was a little girl at the time, putting him somewhere in between his 30's to 50's.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: "Be With Me In My Heart" has opening notes that are practically identical to the opening notes of "As Long As There's Christmas"
  • The Un-Twist: Some viewers, including Phelous, found the foreshadowing for the twist rather explicit.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: There are several references to alcohol (including a gag where a drunk man sees one of the talking instruments and decides to give up alcohol), the Cheka use guns and actually fire them at multiple points, and Cheka mentions that he wants to take Anastasia back to Russia alive so she can be hanged. Yet it's still undeniably a children's movie.

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