♪ I'm wishing on a star.
♪ To follow where you are.
♪ I'm wishing on a dream.
♪ To follow what it means.
♪ And I wish on all the rainbows
♪ that I've seen.
♪ I wish wish on all the people
♪ who really dream.
♪ I'm wishing on a star. ♪
- Which way?
- Hold on a second, hold on a second.
Prince? Where's the prince?
Prince? Prince?
Where are you, prince?
Hey.
Is this still the right way to your castle?
- [Prince Wendell] Right, um, I'll go and get a stick.
- A stick? No.
Hold on a second here, big things are happening.
Your step mother is my wife, you understand that?
The Queen.
- Well, she was the kind of woman
that everybody was drawn to.
I was just like everybody else, I was crazy about her.
I couldn't believe it when she said she'd marry me.
I knew she was sleeping with other guys,
she wasn't even discreet about it.
And I know that you don't like hearing that kind of stuff
because you just wanna hear how nice she was
because she was your mother.
But the truth is that she walked out on us
and probably never gave it a second thought.
- Well, I don't believe that.
- Argh, we're completely lost.
- We've been walking round in circles for hours.
- Yeah, yeah, shut up.
- Oh, look, look.
- I'm not dead yet.
You want some help? So do I.
- Ah, help yourself.
- Yeah, since when have you ever helped us?
- You won't find them on your own.
- We might, you never know.
- And if we fail, we fail as family.
- Three trolls with the courage of one.
- I can find them, I just can't catch them on my own.
(they all talk at once)
- What do you propose?
- A partnership.
(water rushes)
(magical whooshing)
- She never wanted me...
- No, it was all my fault...
- I hear them right on the edge of the royal estate.
- I don't remember the night she left,
but I remember the morning after
because you were trying to make me breakfast
and you didn't know where anything was.
- I had to call your grandmother over
to look after you, because I had to go to work.
She kept saying, "Look, look, she's playing with her bear,
"she's gonna be fine."
I noticed you had three bears, you'd taken one though,
and shoved him in the corner.
And you said to him,
"Now, you're gonna have to stay there all alone."
- Well, I knew she'd come back
because she'd left all her clothes, you know.
She loved her clothes more than anything in the world.
And I kept going into her room and checking on them.
And then after a few months you suddenly said
that we had to get rid of them all,
so, I remember folding them all very neatly,
and I kept hoping that there was going be,
you know, a secret note or something
that would be written for me, you know, just to me,
telling me that she loved me, and explaining
the secret magical reason why she had to go, you know?
I mean, I still have this uncontrollable urge
to just go up to people and say, "My mother left me
"when I was seven."
You know, as if that would explain everything.
And I miss her.
And I hate her.
And I miss her. (sobs)
And I feel like I was on a train
and it crashed or something, and no one came and rescued me.
I always wanted my life to be a fairy story, you know?
And now it is.
Dad. Dad?
(whooshing)
- Yargg arg!
- You are dead!
- Leave her to me.
- Argh, what?
- It's your chance after the queen is finished with her.
(barking and growling)
- Sir? Sir?
Are you awake?
(Pants)
- Is it breakfast?
- You're not yourself, sir.
What is the matter?
Sir, what is my name?
Sir, I've known you all your life,
I even helped bring you into being,
and you do not even know who I am, do you?
- Um...
Oh.
I'm, just, I'm a dog, okay?
I'm just a little dog, that's what I am.
I want to go home.
I want to stay on all fours.
Please, help me, old chap, I'm just a poor little dog.
I'm completely out of my depth here.
- Magic. I suspected as much.
I must get a message to--
- Get up from there.
Get dressed.
It's time to show our hand.
(laughing)
(incoherent drunken singing)
- Dad, wake up.
- What?
- The helmsman's asleep.
No one can see us, we can escape.
- We've got the handcuffs on, our feet are tied.
- Well, just jump off the back.
No one's gonna see us, come on.
- Would you look at us? We can't.
Anyway, what about the prince?
- [Prince Wendell] Go, go, go, master.
- Look, just don't think about it, just do it.
Ready?
One, two, three.
Ugh.
(drunken singing)
- All right, so,
was there a stage two to your escape plan?
- Starting today, no one is allowed to leave the castle
unless instructed to do so by me and me alone.
If asked, you shall simply say that your master, the prince,
has returned, and is well.
If I hear one rumor, one whisper,
that anything is amiss,
I will kill your children in front of you.
Messengers will be sent today
to every king, queen, emperor, and dignitary
throughout the nine kingdoms
inviting them to Prince Wendell's coronation ball.
The evening will proceed as planned
with one tiny exception,
we are going to murder all the guests.
- Well listen, here's what I don't understand,
what's the point of escaping
if we're just gonna straight into the castle?
- Look, it's a short cut. It's quick.
- You see that?
Why do you think one route is 39 miles,
and the other is 13 miles.
- Well, maybe there's a scenic route, how should I know?
Come on.
- I don't think...
It's gotta be longer because it's safer.
This looks, one has trees, and, but this is...
(ominous music)
Oh, well look at that,
you think it's maybe it's going around something?
- Maybe it's just not suitable for carts.
- Ah, oh look, it squished again.
Um, is it just me,
or can you hear A Whiter Shade Of Pale?
(music plays in distance)
- It's just you.
- No, no, that's Procol Harum, that organ is unmistakable.
Listen, listen, listen.
(wolf howls)
- No, that's an animal howling.
- I don't think so.
What animal can skip the light fandango.
♪ Turned cartwheels cross the floor. ♪
Well, you don't get lyrics like that any more.
- You know, it's not too late to turn around and go back.
- No, wait, let's just, we've this far,
let's just continue on until at least the end of sign one.
♪ The room was humming harder. ♪
(whizzing)
♪ As the ceiling flew away. ♪
Come on, you've gotta be able to hear that.
- What are all these lights?
They could be fireflies.
Ooh.
(laughing)
Who are you?
- Who are you?
- Everyone thinks they can handle the swamp.
- But they all end up in the hands of the swamp witch.
- Oh, great, the swamp witch?
- There are three things you mustn't do
under any circumstances.
Don't drink the water.
- Don't eat the magic mushrooms.
- And whatever you do, don't fall asleep.
- Okay, dad, why don't we just keep moving.
- [Fairy] Oh, look, they're all chained up.
- That can't be helping.
Would you like to be separated from each other?
- Oh, yes.
- More than you can imagine.
- All right then.
- No, let let me.
- No, it's my turn to be naughty.
- Wait, what do you mean be naught--
Well, that's better, you see, because we can just...
- Dad?
- We can...
Virginia?
- Dad?
- Hey?
When I said we wanted to be separated,
I didn't mean literally.
Virginia?
(ominous music)
- Stay where you are or I'll shove you in my pot.
- Oh my god, this old witch.
- Who dares enter the domain
of the swamp witch?
- Please don't hurt me, I'm just..
Acorn?
- Oh, allo.
- Hi.
- Long time no see.
- Yeah.
- You, uh, still looking for your mirror?
- No, that one got smashed,
we're looking for another one now.
You haven't seen my father walking around
anywhere here have you?
Oh, he might have been singing A Whiter Shade Of Pale.
- Uh, no.
Come in, I was just making some soup.
- Oh, thanks.
I really thought you were the swamp witch out there.
- No, no, she's been dead for years.
This is a great place to lie low when you're on the run.
Nobody bothers you.
- Well, who was the swamp witch then?
- Who was she? I thought everyone knew that.
- No.
- Well, you know the story of Snow White.
- Yeah, from the horse's mouth actually.
- What?
The swamp witch was the wicked step-mother
who tried to kill her.
Well, this is where she crawled to after they made her dance
in the red-hot slippers.
She spent the rest of her life plotting revenge,
but she was too weak to carry it out.
Then she found someone to do it for her.
- Who was that?
- Well, swamp witch is buried in the basement.
Why don't you go down and ask her.
Maybe what you seek is down there.
- What do you mean?
- Dunno really, I just always wanted to say it.
Personally, I wouldn't go down in that cellar
for all the gold in the nine kingdoms.
(creaking)
(ominous music)
- My mother's been here, I know it.
(horns beep)
- Stop!
- Are you lost, my child?
Are you lost?
Let me show you the way.
Come to me.
Come with me and you will lose your pain.
Forever.
Look, I am dying,
but my work is unfinished.
The house of Snow White survives.
You will do my work for me
and I will give you all my power.
- Poison is the way the queen will strike,
and the way she must be defeated.
You will find your weapon in a grave.
(ripping)
Do not think. Become.
- You are nothing! She will crush you!
(insects chirp)
- Hey.
Anybody gonna eat these eggs?
Got a frying pan here and everything?
- Straight ahead 300 yards, left at the rotting entrails,
and you're out, 10, 15 minutes at the most.
- Okay, I really can't leave
without finding my father first though.
- He's probably asleep on Mushroom Island.
Everyone ends up there.
You can't miss it.
- Okay, thanks.
(he chuckles)
- Even if you want to.
- [Mushroom] What good is an omelette
with nothing to put in it?
- Pop in a couple of mushrooms like us, for instance.
- Yeah, right, forget it guys, I'm not gonna eat you.
- We weren't suggesting you should.
We were just trying to point out the tarragon
growing over there.
- Smells like the real thing.
- It is the real thing.
It's one of the essential ingredients
of a mushroom omelette.
(he chuckles)
- I'm not gonna get caught that way.
- Mushroom omelette, nice glass of Château Suau,
little snooze.
- All right, knock it off.
- Well, at least have a drink. You look parched.
- I'm not gonna drink any swamp water.
- I know it's not the clearest thing in the world,
but it does pack a punch.
It'll take you right up the beanstalk and back.
You know what I'm saying?
(she yawns)
- Dad?
Dad.
- Oh, hi.
- Hi, thank god, I thought I'd never see you again.
- Come on up, you want an omelette?
- You're not drinking the swamp water, are you?
- Of course not.
- Let's get out of here, I can hardly keep my eyes open.
- I know, me too, I'll tell you what, just come on up here,
have a seat, nice little island, five minutes, that's all.
- Okay, but we cannot fall asleep no matter what.
- Oh, no, of course not.
- It looks good.
- That was fantastic.
Mmm.
- Those mushrooms are far out.
Dad!
What are you doing?
- What? What?
Look who's talking!
- What?
- You've had three cups!
- Really?
I've had three?
- Okay, you know, I'm gonna,
I need to lie down for a little while now,
so it's really essential that you stay awake, okay?
Then I'll be fine.
("A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procol Harum)
(he sings along with the music)
(menacing music)
- Virginia, wake up.
Wake up, Virginia.
- Mommy! Mommy!
- It's all right, you were having a bad dream, that's all.
- Tell me a story.
- All right.
Once upon a time, there was a lovely little girl
who lived on the edge of the forest.
Her mommy told her never to go into the forest,
but do you know what she did?
- No.
- Yes you do.
She ran into the forest and she met a monster
and then she died.
And everyone forgot about her,
and we all lived happily ever after.
- Virginia, where are you? I need you.
(phone rings)
Yeah, big Tony here.
- Dad, hi, it's me.
Look, I just had to run away,
but I left you a couple of pies,
just pop them in the microwave, you can't go wrong.
- Hold on a second, wait a minute,
you can't run out on me, that's what your mother did.
Wait, wait, my princess.
I miss you.
Plus, I've got a seven-year-old son here.
You should be here taking care of him.
- Oh, well, I'm glad you finally have a son now.
At least that should make you happy!
Ugh!
- Wake up, wake up, or all is lost.
(surreal music)
(she coughs)
- Aw, come on, I need an electrician here.
What's going on, hey, the lights.
Hey, come on, I'm not gonna sit here in the dark,
turn these lights on, hey!
- Virginia.
Virginia.
Tony.
Tony, wake up, wake up.
- Lights, all the lights are out--
- I should never have eaten the apple.
- I almost died back there, what the hell?
- Oh, how did you find us?
- Oh, Virginia, I've been following you for a long time.
- Oh my god.
Oh.
Where did you go after you left Kissing Town?
- Kissing Town...
I went off for a while to think about things.
Picked up your trail a few days ago.
- But how? We went through a mountain.
- Virginia, I could follow your scent across time itself.
- You seem different.
- We're both different.
- I didn't mean to chase you away.
You know it was just, everything was just happening
so quickly, you know, and...
I really do like you.
I like you a lot.
And I never--
I never wanna hurt you.
I think I love you.
- So long have I waited for you.
So many dull prison days.
In the summer, I could see the sunlight
on my cell wall.
I longed for the summer to see the sun,
yet every time it came, I knew I had lost
another year of my life to you.
When all of this is over, I will put you in a little box
until you curl up and die of despair.
Where was he caught?
- 15 miles from here.
- So near. What about the others?
- We killed them.
- Liar!
Idiot!
- We are extremely stupid, you majesty.
- But we have the dog.
- Fools.
The dog is not the threat to me.
The girl.
The girl is the threat.
- Come on.
Come on, come on.
The journey's end, Wendell's Castle.
- [Tony] That's where the mirror is.
- [Virginia] And that's how we're gonna get home.
- Let's take a little rest before we go on, huh?
I'll get some water, and one of you guys
wanna get some wood?
- I'll go.
- Yeah, I'll go with you.
- Virginia,
there's something I'd really like you to do for me,
I mean, with me.
And I think I deserve it, given my multiple savings
of your life.
- I know what you wanna do, and the answer's yes.
(he gasps)
- Oh cripes, oh I want you so much.
- I know, I want you too.
- All right, all right, all right,
you run into the woods, and I'll cover my eyes.
- Sorry?
- Into the trees, and I'll cover my eyes,
and I'll count to 100.
- Are you serious?
- Oh, yes.
Oh, I won't cheat.
I promise, I won't cheat.
- That's not the point, I--
- All right, all right, all right,
maybe I'll count a little quicker after 50,
but I promise you'll get a proper count from me.
- I am not playing hide and seek with you.
- Come on, come on, come on.
One, two, three--
- No!
- Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, you better run,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
16, 17, 18, 19,
72, 73, 74,
98, 99, 100!
Ahh! Coming!
(tense music)
(she screams)
(they growl and snarl)
- Oh, it's about time.
Where's the wood? For the fire?
- Oh, we couldn't find any.
- Couldn't find any wood? In a forest?
- Hello, Tony.
- You don't have any wood either.
- Yes, thank you.
- We're so lucky, a coronation only comes along
once every 2,785 mouse generations.
- But I don't think there's going to be a coronation,
I saw Prince Wendell lying under his bed.
He looked barking mad.
- Oh no, that can't be right,
he's probably just anxious about serving the right cheese.
- They say that Cinderella's going to be here.
- No? She must be 200 years old.
- I heard she doesn't want to show her face
because she doesn't want to spoil the memory
of her beauty.
- Uh oh, I thought as much. Look!
- Mouse traps, make yourselves scarce.
- Oh, oh, that's Old King Cole.
(laughing)
Oh, presents!
They're all going to the castle for Wendell's coronation.
Oh, come on.
- Whoa, let's just walk in there.
- If I'm right, this is no longer Prince Wendell's castle,
it's controlled by The Queen.
The guards may now be her eyes, we can trust no one.
- Wolf, I have to tell you something.
- What?
- The Queen...
- Yeah?
- Is my mother.
- I knew that
from the first moment I smelled you.
- All right, so, what now?
- We'll wait here until dark
before we try and enter the castle.
- What do we do all day?
- Sleep. We're exhausted.
Are we not?
- Definitely.
- Did I miss something?
- [Man] Welcome to Prince Wendell's castle...
- Yes?
- The guards haven't seen them.
What do you want me to do if they don't show up?
- They'll show up.
They'll come in amongst the others
when they think they are safe.
Signal to start the coronation ball.
- Yes, my lady.
(dramatic music)
(fireworks explode)
- Look, look.
That looks promising.
- Promising? What are you talking about?
- Swim under the grill,
it's bound to surface somewhere in the castle.
- Somewhere?
- Oh good, for a second there,
I didn't think you had a plan.
- Follow me.
(he inhales deeply)
- [Tony] Wait a minute--
Wolf!
I'm not gonna go and dive under the water
to hope we're gonna surface somewhere in the castle.
- Wolf's not coming out, he must have found the way in.
- Why does that follow?
He could have just run out of air, and he could be drowned.
Virginia, don't, no, Virginia, Virginia!
Wait!
Oh.
- Come on.
(she inhales deeply)
You can make it.
Come on, come on.
- I thought I was gonna drown.
- Come on, get up.
You all right?
- [Virginia] Where's dad?
- [Wolf] I don't know.
- Come on, dad.
- Passage was very thin at the top.
- [Virginia] Just come on through.
- Come on, come on, Tony.
- I'm gonna have to go back--
- No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, come on Tony.
- Dad?
- Okay, come on.
- [Virginia] Are you okay?
- [Wolf] There you go,
- [Virginia] All right.
- I almost drowned in there.
- Oh, don't exaggerate.
It's this way.
- Okay, I need a towel.
- Towels? We need weapons!
- Shh, Shh.
Doors, come on.
(toad croaks)
- One door leads to safety,
one door leads to a horrible death, ribbit.
- I learned this in school, but I can never remember it.
- You may ask one question. Ribbit.
But I always lie.
- Okay, okay, if we ask him which door is the safe door--
- Right, well then he'll lie, and say it's the other one.
- Isn't it?
- Or is it the other way around?
- I dunno.
- Time's up, man.
- Wait a minute, I have a question.
What is the point in having a door
that has a horrible death behind it, huh?
- Get your hands off me.
- What does that achieve?
- [Toad] What are you doing?
- What is the purpose of your life?
Just to be a pain?
- Hey, don't touch me there,
only my girlfriend touches me there.
Ahhh...
- I guess it's the other one.
(people talk together indistinctly)
- Where is the prince?
- The country's not been the same since the troll invasion.
- Rude, if you ask me.
Being late for his own coronation?
- Yes, my riding boots are killing me.
- There's Old King Cole,
we must introduce you to my tailor.
What do you think?
- Your royal highness.
Lords and ladies, ladies and gentlemen,
may I present to you a vision of loveliness,
the dancing queen, the slipper supreme,
it's midnight madness, it's Queen Cinderella!
(fanfare)
(clapping)
- Ooh, look at that.
- She can't be 200.
- Hah, she's just had a lot of magic surgery.
(she coughs and wheezes)
- Where's Wendell?
- Shh shh.
These are the royal chambers,
the queen will sleep as near her dog impostor as possible.
Now, my deduction, is that she will have our prince
in the very next room.
There.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Close the door, close the door.
- This must be a guest room.
- No, this is her room.
- What are those?
- Yeah, what are those?
- Oh, mirrors, mirrors.
Ah.
Oh, I got it!
That's it, we have the travelling mirror.
Wait.
Manhattan, we've found it. We can go home.
Virginia, what?
No, please come on, let's just go while we can, let's go.
- I can't go yet.
- What? Yes, no, you can.
Would you please, Wolf, tell her, you can go.
Let's just go.
- No, I have to see her first.
- No you don't.
Listen, she is not your mother.
Whoever this person is, she's not Christine.
She's not the woman that we knew.
- We have been led here all along, don't you see?
It was never the mirror.
It was just a way to bring us here to meet her.
- Please, let us go home while we can still go home.
- No, I have to see her.
- You last request is granted.
- Did I do well, your majesty?
- Excellent well.
- What?
- I thought it safest to stick with them.
Make sure they don't spoil your plans.
- What have you done?
- It's very simple, Virginia,
I obey the queen.
- Christine, what are you doing here?
Don't you recognize us?
- I've never seen either of you before.
- Of course you have. I'm your daughter, Virginia.
- Christine don't look through me--
Don't look through me, all right? It's me, it's Tony.
- I said I don't know who you are.
- Mom, we came from New York where you used to live.
- This is just magic to distract me.
- [Huntsman] My lady?
- Leave me alone with this girl
and take him to the dungeon.
Bring Wendell to me.
Wolf.
You can go to the kitchen now.
I've sensed you for a long time through my mirrors.
But your image has always been denied me,
now why is that, do you suppose?
You don't look very powerful to me.
Has someone been helping you?
Some little dead heroine puffing you up as an adversary?
- I am your daughter.
- I don't have a daughter.
- Why did you leave me?
- You were unwanted. That's plain to see.
Haven't you always known that, secretly?
That you were the ugly duckling?
The sad thing is, your little quest
has given you delusions of grandeur.
You started to think you're capable of great things but,
you were right in the first place.
You're plain.
Plain and ugly.
Come.
Compare yourself to me in my mirror.
Mirrors cannot lie.
You think you are fairer than me? Look.
Ask the mirror.
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
- What are you doing to me?
- Who is the fairest of them all?
- What are you doing?
(dramatic music)
No!
(she coughs)
- You intrigue me.
Why have you come here?
- To find you. To talk to you.
To make you realize who--
- To kill me.
- No! No, of course not.
- I'm going to kill you first, now...
- You stay back or I'll...
- Or what?
Looking for this?
I know everything. All your pathetic plans, everything.
You think Snow White will help you?
She's dead. Dead.
That's why she sent a little girl
after me with old magic.
Is it poison?
- No.
- Oh, you little liar.
If this were to pierce my skin,
it would kill me instantly.
It is very beautiful though.
- In your whole life, did you ever once love me?
(she cries)
- Stop!
- Oh, that's not me.
Oh!
- My lady, we have a problem in the kitchens.
- Take this girl away and lock her up.
I will finish with her afterwards.
- After what? What are you gonna do to everybody?
- No more than you would do to me.
- Oh, Virginia.
- Oh, dad.
- Are you okay?
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- What happened to her?
- She's crazy, she's just, she's sick, and she's...
Before she left us she was just--
She was getting worse, and worse, and worse.
I've never...
I've never told anybody what happened the night she left.
And you, you didn't even remember.
So I couldn't tell you.
- What happened?
(dramatic music)
- She was trying to drown you.
- What do you mean?
That's not true.
- If I'd have come home a minute later,
you would have been dead.
- Don't pant, don't bark, and stop muttering.
- I'm trying to remember my speech.
- You do this properly tonight,
and you can have any bitch in town.
- You!
- Keep them apart, don't let them touch.
- But that's me!
- The guests are getting suspicious, my lady.
- Take the dog to my hiding place,
I'll meet you there shortly, I have one last thing to do.
This kingdom can be ours.
They will test you, but beware of Cinderella,
she is your greatest threat.
(animal squeals)
- Don't move.
Oh yeah.
Oh ho ho ho, that's good.
All present and correct.
- As you commanded, majesty,
the most powerful poison ever created.
- Smells divine.
- The poison? Did he say poison?
- It's not pumpkin soup then.
- Have you tasted it yet?
- Of course not, majesty.
- Well then, how do you know
it's the most powerful poison ever made?
- Yeah, how do you know?
- Well?
Try it.
(he gasps)
- It's definitely not pumpkin soup then.
- Look at him, dead as a doormouse.
- Mouse traps, deadly poison, processed cheese.
It's not like the old days.
- My crafty little wolf, you had me worried for a while.
- Oh, when you freed me from prison, I agreed to serve you.
A wolf always keeps his bargain.
- After tonight, when I rule the nine kingdoms,
wolves will be very important.
I will make them my secret police,
and you will be the chief.
- [Wolf] Chief wolf!
- We've been waiting for hours.
(they talk indistinctly)
- Be silent for the future king of the fourth kingdom.
(fanfare)
I present to you, the man of the hour,
the hero of the day, his royal personality of the year,
he's simply the best,
Prince Wendell Winston Walter White!
(clapping and cheering)
- Ta-da!
Wendy.
- Mwah!
- There were some rumors that trouble had befallen you,
is that true?
- No, I just went for long walkies around my kingdom.
As one does.
- Huff puff, chief wolf!
The wolves will run out of town this time,
the farmers don't know what's gonna bite 'em.
Excuse me.
(he sings)
Cinderella...
- Hey, look at this.
I saw this earlier, blew me away.
- Grimm? As in Grimm Grimm?
- Gotta be, gotta be, right?
I mean all those stories, they weren't made up.
They're true, he was here 200 years ago.
- Wow.
- Grimm fairy stories, you remember those?
I used to read those to you when you were a kid.
You used to sit on my knee,
the one about the donkey would only eat thistles.
- Oh, that was House at Pooh Corner.
- Yeah.
- What does this say? What is that?
- I dunno, I tried reading it, it's in German,
it must be German.
- [Mouse] I can speak German.
- So can I, cheese is käse.
- Our great, great, great, great, great,
great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great,
great, great, great, great grandfather
learnt it from Wilhelm Grimm himself.
- Well, how sweet, German speaking mice.
- Okay, okay, so what does this say here, this.
Wenn sie fliehen wollen mussen sie die hebel drehen?
- Must you the handle turn--
- No, the lever turn.
Handle is klinke.
- Must you the lever turn if you wish to escape.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, escape?
- Lever? Lever!
- Lever, lever. There are here no levers.
The rings! The rings!
Turn the rings! Turn the rings!
Oh wait, over there, get the ones over there, try 'em.
- Hurry up, come on. We might still have time.
- If anyone can save the nine kingdoms, it's you.
- Good luck, you're going to need it.
- Thanks.
- Until the prince's 21 st birthday,
the throne has lain in trust for him.
But, before he can become king,
he must first show us that he has learned the three values
of course, wisdom, and humility.
Let the first challenger step forward.
- Wendell.
I am Leaf Fall, queen of the elves.
It is a very great responsibility you take
upon your young shoulders today.
And I wonder if you are brave enough to join us.
- His bravery is questioned.
- Tell us, tell us the tale.
(everyone shouts at once)
- The troll king threatened this kingdom.
I challenged him to a fight, man to mutt,
and he was huge, and horrible, and he drew his sword,
and both of us fought, and then I dropped to all fours,
and I was snarling.
And then he lunged, at me, and then I clawed at him,
and then I sunk my teeth in him,
and I ripped his throat out.
- Bravo. Magnificent.
- Such animal courage.
- Bravo.
He has passed the first test, Wendell is king of courage!
(they clap and cheer)
- Take a weapon.
- What do you mean take a weapon?
We don't know anything about fighting.
- Take a weapon, dad.
(fanfare)
- It is time for the second challenge.
Queen Riding Hood the Third,
ruler of the second kingdom.
(clapping)
- What wisdom have you learnt on your recent journey
through your kingdom?
- Uh...
That's a tricky one.
I have walked every road,
I have sniffed every hedgerow,
I have roamed the land,
and found bones.
- Bones?
- I found this huge pile
of a hundred fresh, juicy bones.
So, I took one, and I buried the other 99.
- Sound thinking?
- Cunning.
- Build up our military reserves for times of war.
Wise indeed.
- He has passed the second challenge.
Wise Wendell.
(they clap and cheer)
- Which way?
- Here.
- No, I definitely think it's this way.
- What? Why did you ask me in the first place
if you're gonna ignore me.
Sometimes I wonder--
(clattering)
- Midnight approaches.
In the time-honored tradition for the ladies,
please prepare for the Cinderella waltz.
- What? Do you think I'm too old?
(ballroom music)
- Royal toast?
- You're acting very strangely. ls something wrong?
- Do you really have to be home by midnight?
- Oh, my neck.
Help me, I'm 200 years old!
Give me your hand.
- Sorry, sorry.
(creaking)
- What is this?
- Royal toast.
Feel free, please take one.
Royal toast.
(ominous music)
- Here, this must be the way to the ballroom.
- You know what, that's not locked,
there's something leaning against it.
- All right, well we're running out of time.
Push.
(they grunt)
- Rargh!
Skin 'em. Skin 'em alive!
- Oh!
Back in the hall, go, go, go, go.
(clattering)
- Oh, no it's locked.
Here, here, wait, wait, wait.
- All right look, this is gonna take too long.
You just keep going, and I'm gonna fight them off.
- No, dad, you're gonna get killed.
- It doesn't matter about me.
You have to save everybody, all right? Just go!
And if you get through, just keep going, don't wait for me.
I'll keep guard.
(fanfare)
- If none questions his appointment,
then I do solemnly--
- Wait.
I question.
- Woof. Oh, um...
Uh, do you?
- Are you really Prince Wendell White?
Grandson of Snow White?
The man who would be king?
- I am...
- Hey!
- Uh oh.
- No.
(gasping)
No, I am an impostor.
(gasping)
I'm not a prince,
I am...
Ordinary.
(grunting)
- I will never be great like Snow White.
Some are born to be great,
but I am a pack animal.
I am not a leader, I am a retriever.
(shouting)
(clattering)
(dramatic music)
I do not want the job.
I will not take the job.
I am not worthy.
(shouting and grunting)
- Looks painful.
- He passed the third test. He has shown humility.
Bravo.
(clapping)
- He has passed the three tests,
now let him be crowned.
(fanfare)
- Ow.
- [Tony] Virginia!
(chanting)
- You only get to watch.
- [Audience] Aww.
- Time for the royal toast, your majesty.
- [Man] The royal toast!
- To everlasting peace,
and all the bones we can gnaw.
- To everlasting peace, and all the bones we can gnaw?
- I think I did really well.
(coughing and gagging)
- Ugh, poison.
- Anyone for seconds?
No?
- You certainly are persistent.
- Are you gonna kill me as well?
- I was going to let you go. I don't know why--
- You know why.
- Go, leave me, get out while you can.
- No.
- You were nothing but an accident.
You should have been killed at birth.
- How dare you.
How dare you speak to me like that?
- Kill her now.
Kill her, or I'll do it myself.
- Noo!
- [Virginia] Wolf!
- Stop.
- Cripes.
(she coughs)
- You've drawn blood.
- I'm sorry.
- No, no!
No, please don't die.
Don't die.
Just remember who you are.
- It's too late.
Don't cry, my little girl.
My little girl.
I gave away my soul.
- Wait! Wait!
Wait!
(she sobs)
- Oh my god.
What happened?
- Oh, oh, I think I've drunk too much champagne.
- Oh, oh, what's happening? What's going on?
(groaning)
- Why aren't you all dead?
- I thought you poisoned everybody.
- Oh, no, no, no, no. Troll dust.
I swapped the poison for a pinch of troll dust
just to make it look convincing.
I'm sorry, I had to trick you.
Go for it, Wendy.
Go.
That ought to do the trick.
- Ah.
(barking)
- I'm back, I'm back.
I'm back!
(cheering)
- Hi.
I've been waiting for you to wake up.
You've been asleep for almost two days.
- I don't think I realized how tired I was.
What have I done?
- It's not your fault.
Don't blame yourself.
Because that...
- My destiny.
- Oh, Virginia.
Let her go.
- [Virginia] No...
- [Announcer] Lords and ladies, girls and boys,
let's hear it for King Wendell!
(clapping and cheering)
- And now, for the greatest bravery imaginable,
for courage in the face of relentless and terrible danger,
I award my dear friends
the highest medals in my kingdom.
(clapping)
Firstly, my temporary manservant, Anthony.
(clapping)
My people, look upon my friend.
No longer is he spineless and wallowing in self pity.
- Thanks.
- No longer is he a balding, useless coward
who'd rather run than fight.
No longer is he selfishly driven
by envy and greed, no.
He is heroically transformed.
What braver man could exist
than Anthony the Valiant.
(fanfare)
(clapping)
For this long-suffering dog,
my craftsmen have made a special collar medal.
This confused canine will live in a golden kennel
next to his very own mountain of bones.
(fanfare)
Perhaps it's better if I don't touch him.
You never know what might happen.
(laughing)
(fanfare)
(clapping)
As for this wolf,
for him, I have no medal.
- Huff puff. That's typical.
- Instead, I have here a royal pardon
for all wolves, everywhere throughout my kingdom.
From now on, wolves will be known as heroes,
for it was a noble wolf who saved the nine kingdoms.
(fanfare)
- That's wolves for ya!
Good guys!
- As for Virginia,
how can I ever reward you for what you have done.
For what you have lost.
This flower was given to me by Snow White
when I was seven years old
on the day she left our castle forever.
She said that one day, I would meet her again,
though she would never return.
I understand her words now.
(slow music)
- When I was a little girl, you had a fur coat.
And I remember you used to come in my room and,
and I could still smell your perfume.
And you used to rub the fur up and down my cheek,
and I knew,
I knew that you really, really loved me.
I always wanted to be your little girl.
- Anthony, I wish to offer you a job.
- No thanks.
- Oh, no, but wait until you hear what it is.
I want you to build me a new castle.
- A ca--
I'm no architect.
- No, no, no, a bouncy castle.
I will give you titles, land, and hundreds of servants,
whatever you need.
- That's very, um, your majesty, I can't.
I mean, I, well, I can't even make plastic over here.
It's basically what you're asking me to do
is give you an industrial revolution.
- In your new position,
you'll be surrounded by young beauties
in all of your reputation as a national hero.
- Oh! Miss, miss, over here.
What would you like to eat?
- Um--
- Hey, you've gotta eat something.
- Yeah, you've gotta eat something.
- Okay, I'll have, um,
I'll have some fish.
- Fish. Fish, fish, yes, fish.
Waiter? Waiter?
Bring fresh fish immediately, please.
Fresh fish.
- Thank you.
- Mmm.
- I'm fine, really.
- She's fine, really.
♪ How I long to linger
♪ on your sweetheart's finger. ♪
- What?
- That's my engagement ring.
Oh, and, a singing ring never fails to get his girl.
- Ahh.
- It's destiny.
- Put it on, put it on.
Well, all right, I'll just try it on.
But I'm not getting married.
- Of course you are, a baby's got to have a father.
- I don't intend to have any children, thank you very much.
- Well, it's a little bit late for that.
- What do you mean?
- You've got a little wolf cub growing inside of you.
A little furry chap, just like me, only much smaller.
Believe me, I'm a wolf, I know these things.
- Really?
- I just know.
♪ There's no doubt, and there's no maybe,
♪ the three of us are having a baby.
♪ Yippee! ♪
- That's where I went.
- Are you really gonna stay?
- Yeah. What, I gotta go back to New York to be a janitor?
Hey, remember, I'm still wanted for armed robbery too.
I'll stay a few weeks, then I'll come back.
- I'll see you soon, okay?
I really love you, daddy.
- You haven't called me daddy since you were a little girl.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- See you soon, grandpa.
- Grandpa?
- [Virginia] I'd like to say that Wolf and I
lived happily ever after,
but our lives were almost immediately interrupted
by another crisis in the kingdoms.
But that's not this story.
This story is done.
And, when you live every day with all your heart,
and you can be happy ever after,
even if it's only for a short time.
My name is Virginia, and I live on the edge of the forest,
and this is the end of the first book of the tenth kingdom.
♪ I'm wishing on a star
♪ to follow where you are.
♪ I'm wishing on a dream
♪ to follow what it means.
♪ And I wish on all the rainbows
♪ that I've seen.
♪ I wish on all the people
♪ who really dream.
♪ I'm wishing on a star. ♪