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The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale (2014)
Prince Derek and Princess Odette adopt a young girl named Alise. When she is kidnapped, they must save her before it is too late.
I have always loved the Swan Princess series. It was my favorite movie as a little girl. Although I will conclude that the first movie is the best in this series, people are giving the sequels reviews that they do not deserve.
The introduction of the Scullions adds a new twist to the story. Talking animals are nothing new to this series, but the Scullions show that you believe what you are taught, no matter how absurd it may be.
The adoption of Alise allows us to see another side of Derek and Odette that we have not yet seen in the other movies and shows just how strong a parent's love can be for their child.
The Prophecy helps explain and clean up several loose ends not covered in the previous films. The Prophecy helps to show why the practitioners of the Forbidden Arts are always trying to kill Odette above all others.
The several instances of clean humor give comic relief to the rather serious nature of this movie over the others.
Although the voice actors have changed multiple times over the course of the series, they have been able to stay true to personalities the characters.
The songs in the movie were artfully done, but I wish that they had been more spread out throughout the movie, and that there were more of them.
The Animation has GREATLY improved since the last movie, especially in the rendering of the hair. One thing that I enjoy about this series, and Alise in particular, is that the animators made the characters look human, instead of giving the women large eyes or the children abnormally large heads as have been seen recently.
The Forbidden Arts as the villain gives us a BOSS level sort of movie, but the open ending allows for another few movies. It is possible that there are more sorcerers who practice the Forbidden Arts, or that the writers may add in a new power or Villain entirely.
No matter how much I love this series and all the movies however, I can not realistically see the series going for more than two or so more movies.