The Ending Goes Happily N'Ever After On May 1st

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By Rafe Telsch
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The Shrek franchise has built its success around poking fun at fairy tales and the way certain other companies tell them. The movies are not the only films to take that approach to storytelling. Happily N’Ever After, which shares producer Jeffrey Katzenberg with the big green ogre, came out earlier this year and targets the shortcomings of fairy tales for its own tale.

This time the story follows Cinderella (Sarah Michelle Gellar) as she teams up, not with Prince Charming, but with characters appropriately voiced by Andy Dick and Wally Shawn in order to save the fairy tale world from her wicked stepmother, voiced by Sigourney Weaver.

You’d think with that vocal talent Happily N’Ever After would have had a successful run, but the movie raced in and out of theaters pretty quickly. On May 1st you get a second chance to see the film as it comes to DVD and Blu-ray with a bunch of extras:

DVD/BD SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Audio commentary with director Paul J. Bolger
  • Happily N’Ever After? – Alternate Ending
  • Deleted Scenes: Lost in Fairy Tale Land
  • Featurette: Journey of the Characters in the Enchanted Forest
  • Featurette: Creating the Happily Story: Bringing N’Ever After to Life
  • From Storyboard to Fairy Tale: A Comparison
  • Games from the Department of Fairy Tale Security:
  • Choose Your Own Fairy Tale Ending (DVD Only)
  • Munk’s Fairy Tale Fix
  • Mambo and Munk’s Magical Matchmaker
  • Mambo’s memory Mix-Up (DVD Only)
  • Create Your Own Witch’s Broom!

On top of those bonus materials, the DVD producers are making the disc customizable. Answer a series of multiple choice questions and the menus for the disc will switch between good or evil, following the trend of the disc’s alternate ending.

Happily N’Ever After comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on May 1st. Take a look at the cover art below:

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