Hey there, animation fans. Now you might remember my last video where I watched
all of The Swan Princess movies, so you don't have to that video is
epic. It's amazing watching all of those movies was quite the adventure,
to say the least. So since I'm clearly still in a Swan Princess mood, I decided that I'm going to
rank all 10 of The Swan Princess movies. And, I'm going to do it in a tier list because that's what
all the kids are doing these days. And by the end of it, I'm going to have my ranking from
best to worst. So let's jump right into it. So, I'm going to be ranking these in chronological
order from the first movie when it was released, all the way to the very last movie. And then,
I will give you my ranking from there. So starting off with the very first movie, The Swan Princess.
There is no contest here. This one, by far, is the best. It is in the S-tier. It is far and away,
better than everything else on this list. I don't think anything else will come
in that tier. So sorry, spoilers. But, The Swan Princess is number one. The next
movie is The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain. This is still 2D. And,
I know ton of you said you have so much love for the second and third movies, but I don't. I don't,
they are not good. Animation and the quality takes a nosedive in this one. All of the voice actors
are replaced except for Odette. And, they just rehash the same plot point. Rothbart's assistant,
Clavius wants the Forbidden Arts and Odette turns into a Swan. So for this reason, oof, this one,
because they're just trying to pad the runtime, they have a five minute scene, no joke.
It had to have been longer than five minutes of them just chasing this orb around as it lands in
someone's hands. And then butterfingers, it pops out and then it's bouncing down
the stairs and then someone else grabs it. And [inaudible 00:01:42], where should this go? I'm
going to put it in the C category. It's just not great at all. I never need to see it again. So,
that takes us into movie three. This is still traditionally animated and still
horribly animated. This is The Swan Princess: Mystery Of The Enchanted Treasure. Yeah,
that's what it is. There's a lot of mysteries in this one, but this one does not have a Z. And,
I think this one is worse than the previous one. I know that. I don't think, I know. It... Again,
there's just nothing unique about this one. It was like they were really grabbing for straws.
They have Zelda as the villain, who's just a second rate, Clavius, who's just a second rate,
Rothbart. So I mean, we're really going down the list here, Odette turns into a
swan. It's just so immemorable and not great. Now, number four, The Swan Princess Christmas.
This one is so bad. And trust me, I talk about it on that video, check it out. It is just so random.
There's Derek snowboarding, there's a lightsaber duel. There's auto tune Christmas carolers,
glee club. Ah, I honestly cannot do this movie justice on how bad it is. And for that reason,
it's actually good. You know when a movie is so bad that it's good, that it's comical,
that it's hilarious. Yeah, that's what happened to this one. It was just going down, down, down,
and it reached a point of no return, where by some forbidden arts, it brought it back up.
So for that reason, I think I'm going to put it in an A or a B tier. A B tier, that one's going to be
a B tier, because there's definitely some that are in between. Okay, movie number five, The
Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale. And, I didn't mention this in my reviews of these in that other
video, but why is it on the DVD cover? Odette looks like Hillary Duff. Is it just me? Let me
know if you think she looks like Hillary Duff on this cover, because it's like they ripped her face
off and put it on Odette. She looks definitely like Odette anymore. And that's because in the
fourth movie, The Swan Princess Christmas, she had plastic surgery. That's my story and I'm sticking
to it. It never got better from there. Well, it kind of gets better in the other films, but...
They just can't get my nose right.
Now, this one I didn't like at all. I know people love this one and I'm sorry if you love this one.
I don't. This is where they meet the orphan girl who they adopt and she becomes their daughter.
It's really cool. It's... But, that's where the coolness ends.
She gets kidnapped and they have to save the day to find her. And, I just didn't like it.
I don't know why I did not like this one. But, this one is last on my list.
This one just has an ambiguous, bad guy. He is kind of like this flaming eyeball, like Sauron,
then he turns into a smoke monster, like the Smoke Monster from Lost. And, he is like the
essence and the embodiment of The Forbidden Arts, just like Sauron is the embodiment of evil.
I don't know. It's weird, it doesn't make sense. He's like around and like zipping around in his
smoke form and the flying squirrels are introduced because we needed them for some reason. Our pond
pals were not good enough, that pond has run dry, so we need some new creatures to help
save the day. So flying squirrels, it is. All the elements just did not come together for me,
so it's a D. Okay, moving number six, The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow,
Pirate Today!, with the exclamation point, you cannot forget the exclamation point.
And this is the movie that's all about Alise. Now, that we've introduced Alise,
we can now move away from Derek and Odette as the main characters. And so,
it's all about her and it's very stereotypical. Like, I don't want to be a princess, I want be
a pirate. She goes on a pirate ship and she sails away and sings a song about being a
pirate. They land on this island, they kind of get shipwrecked and it's very weird and bizarre.
There's these spiny lizard creatures that are trying to eat Rodgers. They have hoverboards,
more flying squirrels. It's bad that it's kind of good, but not quite The Swan Princess
Christmas good. Seriously, everyone needs to watch that movie because it's so bad,
it's good. But with all this being said, it is better than The Swan princess Castle Mountain one.
So, I think it's kind of the same tier or level as The Swan Princess Christmas. Well,
we'll see. They'll be some wiggle room on this for sure. Wait, movie number seven, The Swan Princess:
Royally Undercover. Again, we get more Alise and her friend, Lucas, they're kind of an item.
They hang out together, they're spies. And so, this is the one where everyone is sunglasses,
because why not? Also is the movie where Uberta falls in love with this random guy named Antonio.
She is totally smit for him, even though she's engaged to Rodgers. So, it's kind of awkward.
Basically they turn into spies, because they have a feeling that Antonio is bad guy and he
is a bad guy. So, that's that. Also I noticed in these movies, I don't know if they didn't have
very many models for their characters, but Odette and Derek are always riding in carriages, always.
It's all they do. They walk and they ride in carriages. They walk and they ride in carriages.
I don't know. So for this reason, this one I did not like. I'm going to put it below
the 2D sequel, just because it was so bizarre, so off the wall. The sunglasses thing,
it's... Rodgers even has a spy room with all of these spy gadgets and contraptions. And its like,
"Why are we doing this?" All right, movie number eight, The Swan Princess:
A Royal Myztery. Is that what it's called? It is what it's called. Myztery with a Z,
myztery. And, this is when it gets really bad. I feel like... I'm so surprised that they were
continuing to make these films, because they were just getting worse, and worse and worse.
We start with the Christmas, and then we have this and this, and this one is by far probably
one of the worst ones in existence. They're just sort of throwing in the towel at this point. And
just like, "Yeah, we know it's going to make a certain amount of money, so here you go."
I don't know, that's honestly how it feels. The bad guy's named Niccolo. And, he's kind of a
Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde character. And, he's really creepy and he's really weird. And,
I just get such a kick out of this movie, because they have these scales of justice that he uses as
punishment. It's just so bizarre. There's ghost. The ghost, the squirrel ghost is honestly like
the weirdest part of these movies, is that the squirrel just appears all the time and
he's helping them out. And it's like, "Why are you here?" So, I'm going to put this in between
the third movie and then the Family Tale, second to last on the list. And now, we go into
the redemption arc of The Swan Princess films. So, the next one is The Swan Princess Kingdom
of Music. So, this is the ninth film. We meet all sorts of characters from around the world.
They come to the Swan castle to do a big talent show, music show. It's basically America's Got
Talent and they have to pick a winner. And the cool element of this is, Odette hasn't been turned
into a swan for a long time. They finally just let that go. She's just known around the world
as The Swan Princess, because she was turned into a swan for, or at least five times at this point.
And so, one of these kingdoms is called the Kingdom of Cathay, it's very much based on
China. And, there is a prince and a princess. They are twins. One likes to sing, one refuses
to sing for some reason. And, she has a boyfriend who was turned into a dragon. The Emperor did not
want them to be together. So he said, "You know what?" "I'm just going to turn you into a dragon."
Yeah. That's one way to solve that problem. And, this one has a really cool twist at the end on how
they break the spell. Ooh, spoilers. But yeah, they do break the spell. He doesn't remain a
dragon forever and I just really liked it. I thought it was pretty enjoyable. Good times,
the music, they really loved their music. There wasn't really anything
memorable about the songs, other than the fact that Alise plays the harp
and Prince Li plays the harp, and then they play the harp together in this big Harp Duet.
Especially because the harp is designed to look like Odette in her Swan form because... And,
this one ends with a be continued at the end. And, it really is a two-part film. But when I
got to the end of it, I liked it so much that I immediately went and watched the next movie.
So that is a good sign because these other ones, that didn't happen, hardly ever,
no. So, here we go, this was the first one that we are putting into our A
tier. And, that leaves us with our very, very last one, The Swan Princess:
A Royal Wedding. And no, it is not the wedding of Odette and Derek, that already happened.
It's the wedding of Princess Mei Li and her boyfriend. And, I keep just referring to
him as the boyfriend, because I don't remember his name. I clearly haven't looked it up, but
they need to go back home to get married. And so, this movie is all about making that happen.
And gosh, darn it, there is a sorceress named Fang. She's getting in the way, how
are we going to stop her before she stops them? So, it's actually pretty good. I did like it.
It wasn't quite as good as the one before, but I was still pretty interested for the most part.
But for that reason, I think I'm going to put it at, right after The Swan Princess Christmas,
because that one is so epically bad, it's good. I cannot explain it enough. I want everyone to go
and watch this movie, just so we can all reminisce about how weird and bizarre that movie is.
So here is my ranking from 10 to one. Number 10, The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale,
number nine, The Swan Princess: A Royal MyZtery, Number eight, The Swan Princess:
Mystery Of The Enchanted Treasure, number seven, The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover, number six,
The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain, number five, The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow,
Pirate Today!, number four, The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding, number three, The Swan Princess
Christmas, number two, The Swan Princess Kingdom of Music. And lastly, we all knew this was coming,
no question, hands down, the number one Swan Princess movie is The Swan Princess.
If you've seen these movies, let me know in the comments below, if you agree or disagree with
my ranking or my opinions on these films. And of course, for my full opinions on these films,
be sure to check out this video right here, it is amazing, it is good. I just had so much fun
recording it, but that's all I have for you today. Until next time, we are the Rotoscopers. Myztery,
myztery, Z, with a Z. [inaudible 00:11:33] By far, trust me, I watched all of these. The next
movie... The next movie... This is... The next movie is the... They just can't get my nose right.