Swan Princess - Nostalgia Critic 

"A tap dancing sorcerer who wants to steal lunch money" Sound like my next D&D character.

Rogers: "She says, "Is beauty all that matters?" and you say "what else *is* there?"" Derek: "It was dumb, I know." Rogers: "You should write a book: How to Offend Women in Five Syllables or Less." Rogers is THE BEST.

"Why can't you just get stockholm syndrom like everyone else I've brought here. I had the turtle ready to marry me in a week!" DYING!

It would have been such a better movie if they kept their personalities as a child. Even if Derek only liked Odette for her beauty, this could actually work. Make it that Odette has a little crush on Derek when they were kids and Derek only changing his mind about marrying her when she's all grown up. Derek can do that whole: "Is there anything else than beauty" thing and she rejects him. Cut to the imposter Odette, who is equally beautiful, but she's very docile and princessy through the whole ball. And Derek notices that something is strange, because he doesn't feel the same way as he did before. Yes, this girl's beautiful, but that seems to be it? Let him have second thoughts about the whole 'announce your true love to the world', because he isn't sure if his feelings for her are still there. And later on, when the real Odette appears, he realizes that he loved Odette for her personality.

How could he not mention Roger; literally the best character. “You should write a book- ‘How to Offend Women in Five Syllables or Less.”

If the parents want to join their lands so bad, why wouldn't they just get married? They seem to get along. And it would save a lot of time

“She started out as such an ugly duckling” What? She was beautiful the entire time....

The thing of the fake Odette dancing with the prince to get him to marry her was in the original ballet... It was just Rothbart's daughter instead. Not saying the movie's good, but it didn't steal that from Disney.

"She started out as such an ugly duckling" I had to pause the video I was laughing so hard at that part

The King: Odette is... Odead Derek: Your Majesty this is no time for puns

"Arrange the marriage? They've been arranging it practically since you were a sperm!" im laugh i ng

Can we talk a second about the fact that absolutely NO ONE seems concerned about Odette's father death ? Not even Odette herself cares the slightest about him. I mean, he forced her in a relationship with Derek all her life so maybe she wasn't very fond of him, but come one !

The "Your beauty and nothing else" jokes are the best things out of this review. XD

I always thought it was weird that the wizard who can literally turn anything into anything else and freaking alter the fabric of reality on command would need such an overly elaborate and infinitely complicated plan to take over a kingdom...dude, summon a few dragons and rain fiery death down upon whatever kingdom you want to rule...not that hard a thing to accomplish when you're the only magic user in said kingdom.

Ah the classic "nineties cartoon prince haircut". Me and my sister actually called it "princehair" when we were kids..

Queen of Hearts: Off with their heads! Maleficent: Now you shall deal with me oh prince, and all the forces of Hell! Ursula: So much for true love! Gaston: It's over Beast. Belle is mine! Jafar: Perhaps you'd like to see how snake like I can be. Scar: Long live the king. Frollo: And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the firey pit. Facilier: Shake my hand. C'mon boys won't you shake a poor sinners hand. Gothel: You want me to be the bad guy? Fine. Now I'm the bad guy. Hans: If only there was someone out there who loved you. Rothbart: I'm gonna eat everyone else's lunches.

I like to imagine that Odette's mind got fucked up after seeing her father get killed, so she suddenly latched onto her father's last desire (her to fall in love with and marry Derek) as a form of post traumatic stress.

Wait wait wait. There's something that is NEVER addressed in the movie. After king william died and odette went missing...WHO THE FUCK IS RULING KING WILLIAMS KINGDOM?!

Swans are one of the few animals that die when the lose their mate (love of their life). It is not the spell killing her, it is the nature of the form. Rothbart is just a jerk. Even defeating him makes sense with that context, the plan is screwed anyway might as well just go for the warlord plan, and take both kingdoms, what with both of their lines ended.

The movie never explained why Odette suddenly loves Derek after she turned him down. I guess Odette decided to fall in love with Derek later in the movie because I guess she feels that her being married to a prince is definitely way better than being stuck with Rothbart, even if Derek only loved her for her looks.

As a child, I didn't care too much about logic, and absolutely loved this movie. I saw the lion king once or twice but the swan princess about 50 times

Why didn't Odette's father and Derek's mother just get married if they wanted to join their lands together and were worried about the future ruling of the kingdom? They clearly got along very well, their significant others seemed to be dead, they didn't have to worry about making an heir together because they each had a child, and it wasn't uncommon to marry or remarry for political or financial reasons. Marrying for love is a VERY recent affair in the grand scheme of human social history.

"Odette is....Odette" Maybe she is the great animal.

I would argue the turtle's voice does fit in a sense. It sounds slow and tired, much like a turtle

6:03 It sounded like he said 'Odette is Odead' hahahaha

I can't believe I never thought of how to change the plot before. To win all Rothbart had to do was: 1. Kill Odette 2. Turn his assistant into an Odette look-alike 3. Present his assistant to Odette's father's kingdom 4. Marry "Odette" to make himself king. 5. Fake his assistant's death so that the ruse is never exposed. 6. Profit - Because he now has an entire kingdom under his control. And even if he wanted to continue 7. Seduce Derek's mother and marry her and if that doesn't work replace her with his assistant 8. Kill Derek 9. Kill Derek's mother or fake his assistant's death again like last time if he had to go that route 10. Profit even more - Because now he has two kingdoms and still has that nice summer retreat Still want to continue? 11. Form the mages guild or whatever you want to call it to teach the dark arts to others 12. Form an army of magic users 13. Conquer the world while adhering to The Evil Overlord List 14. Profit infinity - Because he rules the world of course Edit: Wow. So many likes and comments. And such an old comment too and still getting comments. Thank you. I guess I must create a sequel? 15. Derek faked his death and covertly joins the mage guild. 16. Derek seduces, backstabs and anti-heroes his way up the ranks like a badass to get close to Rothbart while inadvertently developing a personality and a character. Maybe gets a sexy woman along the way. 17. After conquering another kingdom for Rothbart and subjugating its people Derek finally is in the position to take his revenge against Rothbart. 18. Things don't go according to plan but Derek is still barely able to pull off the assassination on Rothbart. Derek's sexy woman dies though. 19. Derek takes Rothbart's place as ruler of the mage guild because he's not naive anymore and knows just letting the mages of the mage guild do as they wish would be a disaster. He even goes so far as to disguise himself as Rothbart and pretend Rothbart had killed him. 20. Derek continues annexing surrounding kingdoms because he now sees how ass backwards feudal kingdoms are. Partly thanks to Rothbart's tutelage and also observing it for himself when he first infiltrated and conquered a kingdom for Rothbart. 21. After a bit of time Derek realizes he's become exactly like Rothbart. He comes to regret killing Rothbart and views him as the father he never had. 22. Rothbart reveals his death was greatly exaggerated. He knew Derek was there all along and after perfecting aging reversal through permanent transformation he had his most loyal assistant play the part of Derek's sexy woman and also faked her death. 23. After a struggle with Rothbart Derek surrenders and becomes Rothbart's right hand man. Derek also gets back with his sexy lady. (Some will find that disturbing but oh well.) 24. Some nut writes some fanfiction of Derek bringing Odette back to life with magic. But that can't be cannon because Derek realizes that Odette really was, "Beautiful and nothing else."

This movie doesn’t understand that loving someone’s looks and loving someone as a person is different.

3:59 "But then quite out of nowhere, they suddenly love each other" It is called the magic of puberty.

Fun fact: This movie was brought to you by the same person behind the Alpha and Omega series.

The woman who voiced Odette, Michelle Nicastro, died from breast cancer in 2010, age 50. The woman who sung as Odette's singing voice is none other than Liz Callaway, who was also the singing voice for Princess Jasmine in The Return of Jafar, and Princess Kiara in Lion King 2. Just throwing some facts out there. EDIT: Lea Salonga did the voice of Jasmine in the original Aladdin movie.

ODETTE - IS O’DEAD’ - * BADUMTIS * I DIED .

My one beef with this movie is Derek's hair.

"The great animal It's not what it seems, is Rothbart in disguise!" It wasn't that hard, was it.

*_I GREET YOU WITH CHEETO LIGHTNING_*

They didn't hate each other in their early teens. They started developing crushes. Thus the line "I think you sort of like her, fess up". Derek was getting jealous when she was flirting with the guards.

Nostalgia Critic: Hey Jeremy,mind if I borrow your "Everything wrong with" idea? Jeremy (CinemaSins): Fine,just don't make it too identical. Nostalgia Critic: waaay,ahead of you "Everything wrong with this plan in under 40 seconds" Jeremy (Cinemasins):....eh,good enough

ACTUALLY the identity stealing part of the story is originally part of Swan Lake, NOT the Little Mermaid. HA

That ugly duckling line always pissed me off.

I admit that I may have some childhood nostalgia goggles, but the Duck repeatedly being shot when everyone yells "Duck" is one of the funniest gags I've ever seen.

19:42, not really. Fake Odette/Odile/Black Swan comes from the ballet. They barely have any of the ballet in this but that bit is quite a crucial factor to this tale.

Impostor Odette was part of the original musical so that wasn't a deliberate copy of the little mermaid.

To be fair, on the sudden love thing. Derek seemed to like her as soon as she became a teenager, that jealousy when she was flirting with the guards. Odette on the other hand, had completely stopped caring about him by then... Maybe love potions?

"happily, a daughter was born" i *highly* doubt that

Honestly, Barbie's adaptation of Swan Lake was handled better.

This movie was my childhood, too bad all the sequels kind of ruined the franchise.

18:45 I only noticed it now but the mother of Derek. In that frame of her...she is just a head. They didn't animated her shoulders in.

For those who are wondering what’s going on at 11:35, the video originally played a clip of the Taunting French Guard, a role John Cleese played from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I assume the clip was taken down for copyright reasons. I believe this is the clip used: “I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”

I wished they used the Tchaikovsky's Swan lake soundtrack .

How come when Derek sees Odette when she was a baby he looks way older than her and for the rest of the movie they look the same age?

The ball scene, and the witch taking the form of Odette isn't a copy of The Little mermaid. The original Swan lake tale has that.

I heard the King's line "Odette is... Odette" and I thought it was a pun. I thought he said "Odette is O-dead"

>"Suicidal Salamander" >Shows fish a'ight

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"We're Not Disney. No Matter How Hard We Try To Make It Look We'll Never Be Disney"

16:33 "you're just so beautiful and nothing else" lmao

I do remember liking this movie, and I think I still do, though I do see how it has problems. One thing I will say in defense of the whole "sending the servant in Odette's place to the ball" scheme is, the movie was somewhat copying something in the original Swan Lake ballet. In the ballet, Rothbart's daughter, Odile, looks like Odette, so he sends Odile disguised as Odette to the prince to fool him. Though I can see why this looks similar to the Little Mermaid movie, with the idea of a villainess disguising herself as the heroine to trick someone. Also, that plot twist doesn't happen in the original Little Mermaid fairy tale; in the original, the prince merely falls for another princess instead of the mermaid, because he believes that princess to be the one who saved him from his shipwreck. So it was kinda like the Little Mermaid movie ripped off something from the original Swan Lake ballet, that's how it looks to me. I don't deny that it looks like Swan Princess ripped off some stuff from other Disney movies, but that's how I see that part of the movie.

I always thought Rothbart being WAAAAAY too old to be marrying Odette was super gross, so I called home Rotbarf.

I wish Animaniacs took a jab at this movie. And before anyone says "They're both Warner Bros, the studio wouldn't allow it", they poked fun at Space Jam in one episode.

I would love a nostalgia critical review of the last unicorn

To the people that's disliking this video because Doug is being mean to the Swan Princess and its sequels, it's time to remove your nostalgic glasses and learn the sad truth: the movie and it's 5 sequels (yes, FIVE) are utter Crap! The director, Richard Rich, is sucking up your money, because he's not only a total Hack, but he's a poor man's Don Bluth! Honestly, if you still like them, the problems that critics like Doug have pointed out, fine; but don't put them up there as one of the great animated films of our time! They aren't and you need to realize that, because you are all encouraging crap that has Nothing to offer!

Fun fact: Rothbart is German and actually means "red beard"

What annoyed me about this film was Odette was upset because he only loved her because she was pretty but we heard no reason as to why she loved him and I got the impression it was only because he was handsome....... so pot/kettle much?

14:49 "A swan.... of course." why, what makes a swan more suspicious than any other animal?

A lot of the unoriginal ideas can come from the original story of Swan Lake. And yeah they messed up with The Odette imposter not being recognized. The disguise spell, from other version I've seen, only affects the prince. Everyone else can see that it isn't Odette.

I loved the movie as a kid, and never noticed the faults till later on. I still enjoy it.

Suicidal Salamander *shows a salmon* You need to get your eyes checked.

To be fair, Blue Sky has come up with some good stuff. Robots had a great cast of amusing characters with interesting designs and an all-star cast. Peanuts was the perfect homage to Charles Schulz, adapting his art style to CGI flawlessly, and pushing his characters a teeny bit without compromising the spirit of Schulz's vision for them. And the first Ice Age film was pretty good.

You're just so beautiful and nothing else.

For those who do not know who Saint Sebastian is, he was a Roman soldier who converted to Christianity and got shot by arrows because of it.

I have mixed feelings about this. Its animation isn't bad, but it's padded with tons of filler, and it was CLEARLY trying to be Disney. The shot of Sigfried-- I mean Derek (seriously, they got Odette and Rothbart right, why'd they change his name?) cutting through brambles on a horse was the most blatant rip off. I might have liked it though, if it weren't for one thing: I am disappointed... no, disturbed!... no, APPALLED by the utter LACK of Tchaikovsky in this film! "The music should be soft and graceful, like a swan!" *Op. 20 proceeds not to play* And on that note, some things in this film actually did come from the ballet. The name Rothbart, for instance, is from the actual ballet. The scheme to send an evil woman disguised as Odette is also from the actual ballet, so it's actually NOT a Disney rip off. Other than that, there's not much of Swan Lake in it.

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"I'm never doing any more diet Disney again!" 10 months later, does quest for Camelot.

It's really sad that the Barbie version is actually better. Odette and Derek have way more character in this and we don't have this arranged-marriage-and-growing-up-together-just-to-dumb-everything-later bullshit.

"I like his other French performance better" *awkward silence Damn you, RU-vid! *shakes fist

Rogers was the best character in the film his expressions were basically my reactions to the lines they used

Those dislikes are from this movie's fanbase.

"He disappears during the day doing nothing... Why doesn't he do something?" That was one of the funniest parts for me

"I'll intend to eat their lunches!". (Gasps) YOU MONSTER!

Roger was best character "You should write a book, how to offend women in five syllables or less"

So, in the beginning of the movie an evil mage tried to overthrow the king, was caught and... the king just let him go? Just like that? High treason is a crime punishable by death in many countries even today, not to mention the Medieval times. And yes, I know it is a kid's movie, but such stupid plot moves annoyed the hell out of me even when I was a kid.

Jasmine and Aladdin had more chemistry than Odette and Derek and they only met after one day!

I do have to say, Derek insisting that everything at the ball be swan-themed is pretty damn insensitive, even worse than "what else IS there?" 😂👍🏼 Good job, bro

Dang Derek likes Odette's appearance so much that he doesn't even notice that something was off with her impersonator at the ball😭😭 Like no "You seem different tonight" or anything😂😭

This is my favourite kind of review; the one where I agree with most of the criticisms but still absolutely love the movie. I'm such a dork that I can recite most of the words from the clips he shows, and I sing along with all the songs. This is one of my favourite kids' movies, EVEN THOUGH it's not "good".

I liked the Barbie version of Swan Lake better. lol

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Come to think of it, what does Odette suddenly see in Derek when they meet again as adults? She asks what Derek sees in her other than her beauty, but what's there that suddenly attracted her to him in return? Both of them seem equally devoid of personality as adults so I can't imagine there is anything for her to latch onto other than his looks as well.

When you think about it, there was no point in seeing the main characters' childhoods. They start off as young troublemakers with fun personalities but, when they grow up, they become completely different characters. Sorry, Warner Bros., you can have a fun, coming-of-age story or a bland Disney princess knockoff, not both.

the ending always cracks me up "............................. oh no!" "HAHAHAHA!"

"Mr. mole, are you the great animal?" "ANIMAL ALWAYS GREAT!!!" "wrong answer." "AH!"

One thing I never understood, was how Odette was so angry at Derek for only loving her for her looks. As though she didn't suddenly go from hating him to sticking her tongue down his throat because she found him attractive as an adult.

My first exposure to "Swan Lake" was "Barbie of Swan Lake"

At least this isn't the lowest for Steven Wright (however his name is spelled). That would be The Emoji Movie.

6:07 odette is...odead

When Princess Odette got kidnapped, her dying father told Prince Derek that it was a "great animal" that took Odette. Why couldn't he just say "it was a giant bat" (because that's what Rothbart turned into), That way, Derek would know exactly what he was looking for and wouldn't go around the forest randomly shooting animals praying he'd get the right one. He even tried to shoot Odette simply because he had no idea what he was looking for. Is "great animal" simply an idiom for "giant big-ass bat" and I just didnt know about it?

i wonder why wouldn't they just copy the original Swan Princess it's a pretty good story

What a wast of good animation... The part with the bad guy turning into a monster so he can fight the prince of cardboard could have been awesome! The animations goods enough! Anyone else? Am I alone on this?

I think they chose Steven Wright because of his slow cadence. Slow like a turtle

"No, the goose must be plump and tender. Like a swan!" "Okay, swan it is."

Somebody make a respect thread for Prince Derek, because some of these archery feats are hilariously incredible, especially the bit when he fires several arrows SIMULTANEOUSLY at a group of airborne moving targets and hits them all dead-center. I'd love to see a Versus thread with Derek in it.