Disney is currently in the middle of both celebrating it's one hundredth anniversary and trying to save it's Snow White remake from flopping harder then The Flash. However the company still found time to make and put an animated special that is oddly fitting for a major anniversary year and is alot better then what it really had right to be and so then join me as I review the special brings together five Disney Princesses and one Disney villain with the special in question being called simply just "LEGO Disney Princess: The Castle Quest" enjoy.
The plot of this special is when Gaston tries to take over all of the known kingdoms it's up to Snow White , Ariel , Moana , Rapunzel and Tiana to complete three challenges in order to save Ariel's father from dying to stop Gaston once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this special plot wasn't all that good either with the specials plot being weak at it's absolutely best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this special is Disney legend Jodi Benson as Ariel , Anika Noni Rose as Tiana and Mandy Moore as Rapunzel. Also starring in this special is Auli'i Cravalho as Moana , Katherine Von Till as Snow White , Richard White as Gaston , the great Jim Cummings as King Triton , the great Corey Burton as Magic Mirror , Jo Anne Worley as Wardrobe , Roland Rubio as Flower , the great Jeff Bennett as Mr. Smee and Barrett Leddy as Iago.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. Altho I will admit Anika Noni Rose's voice does sound like a bit to raspy for Tiana and while this specials cast do turn in rather solid performances they can't turn in great performances as this specials script just doesn't give the cast a whole lot to work with interms of what their respective personalities even are or are even meant to be.
Doing the animation for this special is Zebu Animation Studios and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Pure Imagination Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. I do however take issue with the character designs as for some strange reason all of the characters are given these really long arms which just look really of putting and the characters don't even look like Lego pieces.
This special is trying so hard to be like the 2012 film The Avengers however it forgets to treat the characters as actual characters. With all of this specials characters just coming across as being very one note with all of them having one personality trait and that's it with Ariel being the groups leader for some reason who can do no wrong , Moana likes ocean and that's is , Tiana and Rapunzel have pretty much no personality trait and Snow White is a mixture between the weird one or the dumb one of the group with none of these as far as I can remember matching up with their personalities in their respective films as in their movies their nearly all given faults that make them feel alot more well rounded and yet here there all given no faults.
For some reason both Jasmine and Belle aren't featured in this special this is despite Belle having met Gaston before and Jasmine being a more stronger and well known character then either Tiana or Rapunzel. Heck both of which would have made great editions to this special as Belle would have known how to defeat Gaston before and Jasmine would know what to do in a tough situation which really does make me wonder why they weren't included in this special as they are still very well known characters and are legacy characters who are perhaps more well known to older Disney fans then either Tiana or Rapunzel for example.
I will admit that this special when it wants to be can be really fun with the most fun parts of the special just coming from these iconic interacting with each other. Ad there's just something about seeing Ariel talking to Moana or Snow White talking to Tiana that just make the special worth watching and while we don't get any memorable lines from these interactions just the fact that there meeting each other in the first place does make this special a must watch for me especially if you have little kids as they are the ones that will get the most enjoyment from this special and that who this special is mostly aimed at in the first place.
Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty seven minuets and nineteen seconds. Which is a tad but on the long side for this special but on the flip side this special also feels like it's far to short as well as even tho the story for this special is on the weaker side of things the characters more then make u for it and with a longer running time all of the specials characters Gaston included could have been fully fleshed out and become more three dimensional then what they are in this special but I will very much admit tho that this special really does have some pretty good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. With Snow White getting alot of the specials best jokes which was something that I wasn't expecting to be the case as they only recently started making Snow White more of a comedic character and so there was really no telling if they would give some jokes in this special and yet not only do they give her alot of jokes there also jokes that seem fitting with her character from the original 1937 film as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this special wasn't as good as I thought that it would be it's definitely alot better then what it had any right to be and it's always nice to hear the original voice of Ariel no matter where in animation Ariel appears in in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that means that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.