History TranslationConvention / AnimatedFilms

** It's unlikely the characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' are speaking English. The country Elsa rules over is based on Norway so it's probable they're speaking a fictional version of Norwegian. Despite this, "WesternAnimation/FrozenFever" has a "Happy Birthday" banner written in English, and ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' briefly features written text from Elsa and Anna's mother, which also happens to be in English.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': The characters are naturally speaking some sort of Classical Chinese (rather than this being a reality where modern English happens to be the universal language), especially since all the written text is Chinese calligraphy. This doesn't explain the diversity of accents in their English-rendered dialogue though, with some Chinese, but others mostly American or British.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', the animals can understand humans, but not vice-versa. At one point, when Marty goes missing, Alex makes a panicked phone call to the police, but all the responder hears is a lion roaring, indicating that rather than them being {{Talking Animal}}s, their AnimalTalk has been rendered as English.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime V''. Although most movies, including the fifth movie, had the dinosaurs speaking English, the Sharpteeth spoke in growls and snarls, with subtitles translating the conversation.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': The characters are naturally speaking some sort of Classical Chinese (rather than this being a reality where modern English happens to be the universal language), especially since all the written text is Chinese calligraphy. This doesn't explain the diversity of accents in their English-rendered dialogue, with some Chinese, but others mostly American or British.

* The Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon does this ''a lot'', what with these films taking place in many different countries but being shown all over the world and thus re-dubbed into many languages other then the ones the characters should logically be speaking.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': The spoken dialogue is always English, rather than Egyptian or Hebrew, and it isn't always clear which is being translated. A verse of the song "When You Believe" is sung in Hebrew, but is otherwise English. The general rule is that [[TheQueensLatin the Egyptian royals speak with British accents]], while the Hebrews have American accents (including Moses, despite him having been mostly raised by Egyptians).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', all of the animals can understand each other and they can understand humanspeak. But [[AnimalTalk humans can't understand them]], so when shown from the animals' POV, they're all speaking English as well as the humans for our listening pleasure, and when shown from the humans' POV, they can of course understand each other, but the animals just sound like they're making animal sounds.

** There are versions of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' in English and many other languages besides French, even though both are set in France.

** Strangely done in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''. For almost the entire movie both the Algonquians and the Brits speak English. However, when John meets the [[CharacterTitle title character]], she speaks Algonquin -- until the magic tree tells her to "listen with [her] heart", at which point she can understand Smith. The movie carefully avoids having other Native Americans and Englishmen talk to each other -- only Smith and Pocahontas are shown communicating.

* ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs'' has all of the dogs' speech translated into English. The frequent Japanese dialogue is not.

** It's unlikely the characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' are speaking English. The country Elsa rules over is based on Norway so it's probable they're speaking a fictional version of Norwegian. Despite this "WesternAnimation/FrozenFever" has a "Happy Birthday" banner written in English.

* In the ''[[Franchise/DisneyFairies Tinker Bell]]'' films, Tink speaks English as do all fairies, a stark contrast to the jingling bell sounds made by the mute Tink in the Disney ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' movies. You can imagine how [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks that went over]]. However, when Tink leaves Pixie Hollow and meets a human, when she tries to communicate, we find that the human hears only jingling when she talks. This makes all fairy dialogue that we can understand TranslationConvention -- they do talk, but humans just can't understand.

!!Exceptions

!!Mixed
* Half the dialogue in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' involving the Atlantean language has TranslationConvention, while the other half is in subtitled Atlantean.

** There are versions of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' in English and many other languages besides French, even though both are set in France.
** ''Disney/TheLionKing'', ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'', ''Disney/BrotherBear'', ''Disney/TheRescuers'', and ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' feature [[AnimalTalk talking animals]].
** Strangely done in ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''. For almost the entire movie both the Algonquians and the Brits speak English. However, when John meets the [[CharacterTitle title character]], she speaks Algonquin -- until the magic tree tells her to "listen with [her] heart", at which point she can understand Smith. The movie carefully avoids having other Native Americans and Englishmen talk to each other -- only Smith and Pocahontas are shown communicating.
** In the second ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' movie, Mushu tells Mulan some rather alarming news, which she parrots back at him in shock, and he irritably asks, "Don't you speak Chinese?"
** It's unlikely the characters in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' are speaking English. The country Elsa rules over is based on Norway so it's probable they're speaking a fictional version of Norwegian. Despite this ''Disney/FrozenFever'' has a "Happy Birthday" banner written in English.
** This is potentially the case in ''Disney/{{Moana}}''. In the song We Know the Way, her ancestors are only shown singing along during the Tokelauan part at the beginning. When the lyrics switch over to English or whatever language the movie was translated into, the singing shifts to disembodied background voices. This detail suggests that the characters are actually speaking Tokelauan and that the translation is just for our convenience.

* In the ''[[Franchise/DisneyFairies Tinker Bell]]'' films, Tink speaks English as do all fairies, a stark contrast to the jingling bell sounds made by the mute Tink in the Disney ''Disney/PeterPan'' movies. You can imagine how [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks that went over]]. However, when Tink leaves Pixie Hollow and meets a human, when she tries to communicate, we find that the human hears only jingling when she talks. This makes all fairy dialogue that we can understand TranslationConvention -- they do talk, but humans just can't understand.

* Half the dialogue in ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' involving the Atlantean language has TranslationConvention, while the other half is in subtitled Atlantean.