So much average

Best movie of this year hands down!

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I remember seeing the poster to this movie in a supermarket way before the release in our country.This is a cartoon about a girl that must be freed from her transformation spell as a swan.Here you have it a classic fairytale.The animation is hand drawn.If you want to take a break from modern all star CGI movies see this.Now that we are looking back at the long string of hand drawn movies of the 1990's.There was Anastasia, a long row of direct to sequels and movies like this.The movie is having unforgettable, and upbeat songs.From a saving the day song to a jazz like villain song.The monster that must be defeated, a happy ending and literary a long row of princesses.It's not anything serious like Branagh's Hamlet of course, but some light fun.Go look for it at the flea markets.10/10

I've seen a lot of reviews belaboring the studio about a lack of plot. That's not exactly their fault since its BASED ON SWAN LAKE. Just putting that out there. Also I've heard Odette debates about whether she's a flat stupid princess. No. She refuses Derek when he wants to marry her just for her looks. She helps him find her. She breaks out of the dungeon with the help of her friends. She flies who knows how many miles to try and stop Derek from making a mistake. She didn't do anything to help save him BECAUSE SHE WAS PRACTICALLY DEAD. So sorry she didn't just suddenly get better and destroy a frightening giant dragon thing. What an awful character. A disgrace to women truly. Seriously? In the sequels she saves the kingdom, the queen, Derek, herself, etc. she's not a flat character. She's a wonderful princess. Unlike Cinderella-yay she fits into a shoe, sleeping beauty-she's great at slumber parties, etc. I've also seen a lot of grief over the animation. It's pretty old of course the animation will be lacking, but it's pretty good in my opinion. All in all it's a great movie in my opinion. I'm 18 and I still watch it fairly regularly. I show my little sister. I'd recommend it to anyone with children. The music is wonderful and somewhat hokey but that's one reason it's great!That's all.

I remember being 8 years old and watching this movie endlessly. I also recall singing "For longer than forever" over and over again (I'm such a sucker for that kind of songs). Recently, I had been trying to recall the song unsuccessfully, and when I found it on Netflix, I jumped in for old time's sake and because I wanted to hear the song.Watching it 12 years later resulted in disappointment regarding the plot line, character development, animation, voice acting and lyrics. That may seem to imply I hated it, but I didn't. It is actually more than the sum of it's parts, mostly, I think, because it follows the formula of every princess movie that ever existed, and that worked out.I also think something that really saves this movie is the sidekick ensemble. Jean Bob + Speed work very well together and are a lot of fun. Puffin is very likable. Bromley and Rogers are a very fun companion to Prince Derek, and both villains are indeed very entertaining. The scenes containing these are very fun.Music-wise, it is also very formulaic, borrowing incredibly from Beauty and the Beast (in my opinion). It works, though. I think the ideas for the songs were very clever, although the execution was not very well done. For Longer than Forever is good. Not great, but you will find yourself humming it every once in a while.I think children will enjoy this, and if you take it lightheartedly, you will like it too. I also noticed this is a good movie for watching over and over and over... It's easy to switch in and out, and works well being played on the background. I really understand why I loved this as a child.

OK, so "The Swan Princess" is another children's movie. When I saw it, I thought that it was really neat that John Cleese provided the voice of the frog, and I later found out that Jack Palance (once known for "Shane", now known for "City Slickers") provided the voice of the villain. Who would have envisioned those two plus Steven Wright and Frank Welker (Fred on "Scooby-Doo" and Ray on "The Real Ghostbusters") in an animated feature? It wasn't until years after I saw the movie that I found out what the source material was: while in St. Petersburg, I attended a production of Pyotr Chaikovsky's "Swan Lake" in the Mariinsky Theater and realized that it was the same characters. Of course, what stuck in my mind most of all was the haunting theme song. That ballet is more recently recognizable as the subject of "Black Swan" (which I haven't seen).Anyway, the movie's nothing particularly special.Michelle Nicastro, who provided the voice of Odette, was an opera singer (she died of cancer last year). Howard McGillin, who provided the voice of Derek, was one of the people who played the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera".