Cinderella II: Dreams Come True is the first
direct-to-video film sequel to the
1950 Disney film
Cinderella. It was made in
2001 and released on February 26, 2002. It was followed by
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time in
2007. It consists of three segments featuring Cinderella planning a party,
Jaq the mouse being turned into a human and living as Cinderella's page boy, and one of Cinderella's brutal stepsisters (
Anastasia, the redheaded one in a pink dress) reaching her redemption through falling in love with a young baker, a low-class man of whom Lady Tremaine and Drizella do not approve. Estimated to cost $5 million to produce,
Dreams Come True was Disney's top selling animated sequel that year, grossing approximately $120 million in direct-to-DVD sales.
Plot synopsis
The movie begins with the Disney logo fading into its animated counterpart giving the viewer the sense of an actual film. Inside, Cinderella's mice friends
Gus and Jaq race to a chamber where the Fairy Godmother is reading the story of Cinderella to the other mice. Much to their disappointment, Gus and Jaq arrive just as the Fairy Godmother reads that "Cinderella and the Prince lived Happily Ever After".
With the Fairy Godmother's help, the mice set off to make a new book to narrate what happens after the Happily Ever After, by stringing three segments of stories together into one narrative.