The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure (alternatively subtitled as The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom) is a 1998 animated film, the third film in the Swan Princess series, and the second sequel to The Swan Princess.
This film follows Derek and Odette having to deal with Zelda, an evil sorceress who is seeking the Forbidden Arts and wishes to use it to destroy their happiness. Derek must defeat Zelda in order to rescue Odette and save the kingdom.
Plot[]
A yakey-bird named Whizzer is relaxing at a paradise, until he is captured by the evil sorceress Zelda. Zelda was once a lover of Rothbart who helped him regain his power after he was banished by King William, until he betrayed her. Zelda tells Whizzer to find out if Rothbart's notes for the Forbidden Arts still exist, as he can imitate any voice, promising to set him free if he does.
Derek and Odette's kingdom is preparing a celebratory Festival Days, as all their enemies have seemingly been defeated. When Whizzer imitates Bromley and asks Lord Rogers about Rothbart's notes, Rogers thinks a rumor is going around about this and tells Derek, who reveals to Odette (and Whizzer) that shortly after Clavius's death, he and Rogers found Rothbart's chamber containing everything on the Forbidden Arts, and while destroying everything else, they kept the notes, intending to use them for good. Odette tells Derek to destroy the notes, saying nothing good can come from them. Puffin catches Whizzer spying and chases after him, but Whizzer escapes when Puffin crashes into a porcupine.
Whizzer informs Zelda that the notes are in the castle, but Zelda forces Whizzer to help her next scheme. As Queen Uberta enters the festival's talent show with Rogers as her partner doing the tango, Zelda disguises herself as a girl being attacked by a bat (played by Whizzer). Rogers "fights Whizzer off" and falls in love with Zelda, who pretends to be a slave that escaped from the ruthless king of the country of "Chuten-Chuten-Doodang". Rogers's love for Zelda annoys Uberta. When Rogers gives Zelda a tour of the castle, she discovers the room where Derek is keeping Rothbart's notes.
That night, Zelda steals the notes and returns to her lair, only to find that Derek has torn off the last word of the notes on the power to destroy. Zelda kidnaps Odette, along with Jean-Bob, with a seeker fireball while forcing Whizzer to give Derek a ransom note. Before Whizzer can return, he is chased and captured by Puffin.
Zelda uses the notes to obtain the powers to create and change. When Jean-Bob unties Odette and they attempt to escape, Zelda turns Odette into a swan and traps her and Jean-Bob inside a fiery green dome that destroys anything that makes contact with it.
Upon receiving Zelda's ransom note, Derek informs Rogers and Uberta of Zelda's trick and retrieves the missing piece of the notes. Zelda takes the piece from Derek, disguised as Odette, and returns to her base to test the power to destroy on Odette. Puffin and Speed convince Whizzer to help them, and he leads Derek to Zelda's lair to defeat her. As Zelda reads the last notes and receives the power to destroy, Derek releases Odette from Zelda's trap. Zelda tries to kill Derek before sending a killing seeker after Odette. Whizzer tells Derek to break Zelda's wand, which will make the seeker disappear. When Whizzer distracts Zelda by imitating Rothbart, Derek breaks Zelda's wand. Zelda falls onto her own trap and is destroyed.
Puffin returns and tells Derek that Odette was killed by Zelda's seeker. Derek is heartbroken over this, but when he burns Rothbart's notes, the fire takes the form of a swan, and Odette is revived.
The festival takes place next morning. Jean-Bob wins the obstacle course and becomes prince for a day. Uberta and Rogers win the talent show, and Odette asks Derek to promise her that there is no more magic in the castle, to which Derek tells her that he can't promise that becase "So long as you're here Odette, there'll always be magic."
Cast[]
- Michelle Nicastro as Princess Odette
- Brian Nissen as Prince Derek
- Katja Zoch as Zelda
- Joseph Medrano as Lord Rogers
- Christy Landers as Queen Uberta
- Donald Sage Mackay as Jean-Bob
- Doug Stone as Lorenzo "Speed" Trudgealong
- Steve Vinovich as Puffin
- Paul Masonson as Whizzer and Chef Frederick
- Owen Miller as Bromley
- Sean Wright as Rothbart
Transcript[]
The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure/Transcript
Songs[]
- "It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This"
- "Because I Love Her"
- "She's Gone!"
- "Bad Days Ahead"
- "The Right Side"
- "Because I Love Her (Reprise)" - performed by Connell Moss
Trivia[]
- This film marks the last of a few things:
- This is the last film to use traditional hand-drawn animation, with all future films being animated by computer.
- This is the last film role of Odette's actress Michelle Nicastro, who retired two years later, in 2000, and died from cancer in 2010.
- This is the last film in the franchise to be composed by Lex de Azevedo.
- This is the last film to have Steve Vinovich as Puffin.
- This film was originally the last film in the series to have been designated a G rating from the MPAA until the seventh film The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover.
- The Japanese Title is called (スワン・プリンセス3 禁断の書 Suwan purinsesu 3 kindan no sho).
Video Trailer[]
The Swan Princess III Trailer 1998