Finally, "Where Do I Go From Here?", Pocahontas's conflicted "I want" song is set to a montage of scenes from the silly-looking Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, wrapping up the first act of DTV music. "A Little Thought" is, like the rest of Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World, best and easily forgotten. Next is "Out of Thin Air", Aladdin and Jasmine's duet from Aladdin and the King of Thieves which has some strengths but does not amount to much more than a twist on "A Whole New World" that is quite inferior even next to "Forget About Love" from its immediate direct-to-video predecessor. Boasting rubbish lyrics that have the subtlety of a jackhammer, sterile visuals that make you cringe even for the low-key animation the Nine Old Men did for the first film, and a nondiegetic performer who is clearly not Cinderella (though she's apparently speaking for her) and not at all in line with the original's world or music, this is probably the weakest portion of the disc. Then, we enter SequelLand, beginning with "It's What Inside That Counts" from the heavily-maligned Cinderella II: Dreams Come True. I'm not sure exactly how I knew this song already in some detail (I imagine it used to play on the Disney Channel before the zoogs and teen poppers took over), but it's a catchy tune and one of the better tracks included. Before we get to the bombardment of songs from these films, the program opens, after Sebastian's somewhat outdated "Sing Along Songs" anthem (there's nary a bouncing ball to be found here), with "In Harmony" from "The Little Mermaid" television series. As the artistic quality of DisneyToon Studios' productions has generally risen, there are different gradients, ranging from inane to inoffensive to fairly commendable. In 2006, it's not quite as easy to do that. Once upon a time not too long ago, Disney fans could summarily dismiss the studio's entire class of direct-to-video sequels as inferior product hardly worth going out of one's way to view. Based on the previous two volumes, you'd expect a more potent lineup than this, but as we did for past volumes (which did sprinkle in the occasional DTV effort), let's keep an open mind as we go through the program song by song. After the strong patch of numbers from Feature Animation, two more sequel songs follow and the program concludes with a tune from Miramax's 2004 live action fairy tale Ella Enchanted. To get there, you must first endure five songs which never played before a theatrical crowd in America: one from a television cartoon spin-off and four from direct-to-video sequels. Volume 3's twelve-track roster only includes four songs from what are widely known as Disney's "animated classics" and these are played in succession in the second half. The latest installment of this series (which seems to be the only new Sing Along Songs titles coming out of Disney these days), Disney Princess Sing Along Songs: Volume 3 - Perfectly Princess, follows the same formula, but it reveals that the supply of great songs featuring Disney princesses is definitely running low. Little more than musical film excerpts, colorful captions to aid singing along, and some basic but cool bonuses that added replay value to the disc. The first volume held some of the most memorable songs in Disney's canon, and though the selections on Volume Two showed the well was drying up (thus requiring "princess" be stretched to include Alice of Alice in Wonderland and Robin Hood vixen Maid Marian), both provided thoroughly entertaining experiences with One exception to the widespread lamenting these DVDs have inspired in this site's critics (more specifically, your uncredited regular reviewer) are the Disney Princess Sing Along Songs. The possibilities are endless, the potential high, but then you read the review and realize you're just getting two episodes from 1990s television cartoons and a disposable read-along ( Disney Princess Stories) or recycled (and altered) animation featuring cookies and toys ( Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment, the line's latest offering, released last November). When that is the case, all you know is that you'll be getting something featuring the beloved royal female human protagonists of Disney's animated classics. But usually, the greatest appeal an entry in Disney's Princess DVD line will hold is when you don't know its contents. Sure, like any published critique, they get the word out about a new piece of media available for consumption. The Disney Princess DVDs generally do not benefit much from reviews. Lyrics: English, French Subtitles: English Closed Captioned Running Time: 40 Minutes / Rating: Not Ratedġ.33:1 Fullscreen (Mix of Original Aspect Ratio and Reformatted)ĭolby Digital 5.1 (English), Dolby Surround (French) Sing Along Songs: Disney Princess - Perfectly Princess
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