YMMV / Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

• Adorkable: An Uncommon Romance was the first time in the franchise Anastasia was written to be this, with her awkward attempts to impress the Baker and the genuinely sweet romance it leads to. This portrayal has influenced many of the character's subsequent appearances, including the next sequel.
• Anvilicious: All three of the stories in Dreams Come True have a character learn to Be Herself (Himself in Jaq's case). Having the same moral be repeated three times is a bit grating.
• Awesome Music: "The World is Looking Up To You".
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Baker from An Uncommon Romance, due to being a sweet guy who brought out the best in Anastasia. He even gets a small cameo in the next film.
• Fanon Discontinuity: The third film itself, while not outright removing this film from canon, and even having a few references to it, seems to act more as a sequel to the very first film than anything, making this one easier to ignore (Though you could look at the two films the other way round - this film is a sequel to III, with Lady Tremaine and Drizella somehow no longer maids.)
• Just Here for Godzilla: It's widely agreed that the third segment, An Uncommon Romance, is the best of the three and the only part of the movie really worth watching.
• Misblamed: It should be noted Dreams Come True was not produced with the intent of being an actual film and was in fact a Failed Pilot Episode Disney later tried to market as a proper sequel. It could be easier to appreciate it as a humble string of made-for-TV stories if someone in Disney marketing hadn't decided to paste a 2 on it.
• Older Than They Think: Cinderella helping one of her stepsisters find love has precedence from Charles Perrault, whose version of Cinderella ended with the title character matchmaking both of her stepsisters with two lords.^note Perrault also had the stepsisters apologize to Cinderella before she leaves to marry the prince, so Cinderella forgiving them feels less abrupt in his version, than it would for someone watching both Walt Disney's Cinderella and Dreams Come True in a row.
• Sequelitis: This movie is considered a strong contender for being one of the worst, if not the absolute worst, of the Disney direct-to-video sequels, for the jarring drop in animation and overall unoriginality, and had a huge hand in crystallizing the already notorious reputation of the sequels. The third film on the other hand....
• So Okay, It's Average: Not the movie itself, far from it, but the An Uncommon Romance segment. It's definitely the best and most interesting of the three segments, with Anastasia's character development doing a lot to expand on what was previously a very one note character. Unfortunately, with it being one third of an already short movie (the whole thing is only 73 minutes after all) and that it dedicates some of its short time to Lucifer and Pom-Pom, the story has no room to breathe, and it's forced rush through.
• Sophomore Slump: Cinderella II: Dreams Come True went so far as to become one of Disney's least-liked sequels ever. It doesn't even have much screentime in this trailer for a Blu-Ray pack of Cinderella's sequels. The next film even implicitly retcons it out of existence, though a few characters from it do show up.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: This movie had an opportunity to feature the prince more prominently and give him more characterization, as well as further developing his relationship with Cinderella (seeing as in the first movie their onscreen romance is relegated to the ball and their wedding). Unfortunately the prince is barely in the film in any meaningful way; the first segment - which is all about Cinderella trying to adjust to being a princess - would've been a perfect opportunity to explore the prince more as a character and how he supports Cinderella, but he quickly gets Put on a Bus.

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