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Nov 18, 2012 · Release Date: November 18, 2012. Genre: Adventure, Animation. Journey to a faraway kingdom where magic reigns hand-in-hand with fun! Meet Sofia The First, a new little princess making her big debut. After her mother marries the king, Sofia becomes a princess overnight.
- Jamie Mitchell
- Sara Ramirez
Synopsis. Set in the storybook world of Enchancia, the music-filled movie follows Sofia, an average girl whose life suddenly changes when her mother marries the king and she is whisked off to live in a castle with her mom, new step-father, King Roland II, and step-siblings, Amber and James.
- Jamie Mitchell
- 47 min
- 2
Nov 18, 2012 · Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess: Directed by Jamie Mitchell. With Ariel Winter, Sara Ramirez, Jim Cummings, Travis Willingham. Sofia, is a little girl with a commoner's background until her mom marries the King and suddenly she is royalty.
- (1K)
- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Jamie Mitchell
- 2012-11-18
- Overview
- Plot
- Music
- Cast
- Reception
- Trivia
- Goofs
is an animated television movie that premiered on November 18, 2012 on Disney Junior in the United States. It is the pilot for the animated series Sofia the First that premiered on January 11, 2013.
Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather appear and introduce Sofia, an eight-year-old girl living in the Village of Dunwiddie in the Kingdom of Enchancia with her mother, Miranda who is a shoemaker. One day, Miranda and Sofia are called for a shoe fitting by King Roland II of Enchancia. It's love at first sight for Roland and Miranda. They soon marry, making Miranda the new Queen of Enchancia and Sofia the kingdom's second princess overnight. Upon arriving at the castle, Sofia meets her new father, Baileywick the castle steward, Cedric the bumbling royal sorcerer, and her two new older siblings, Princess Amber and Prince James, the royal twins. Sofia is warmly welcomed by everyone at the castle, except Amber and Cedric. At the dinner table, Roland tells his new daughter that there will be a royal ball in honor of her royal debut at week's end, stating that it's the best way to let everyone know that Princess Sofia has arrived, and he and Sofia will dance the first waltz.
After Sofia sees her new room, she has second thoughts. She laments into a musical number about her insecurities, and her belief that she's not ready to be a princess because she knows to be royal has huge responsibilities. She knows she has no experience when it comes to fulfilling them. She finds her mother and tells her about her uneasy feelings and that she would rather not have a royal ball because she doesn't know how to dance and doesn't want to let anyone down. Miranda assures her she'll be fine. Roland comes out of the shadows and gives Sofia a beautiful but mysterious amulet that he says is very special and tells her she must promise to never take it off. Sofia happily accepts the gift and gives him her word to wear it always and never let it out of her sight. On the way back to bed, Sofia bumps into Cedric, who recognizes her new amulet; he later goes to his workshop where he talks with his raven companion Wormwood about secretly wanting to use the amulet's power to take over Enchancia.
The next day, Sofia, James, and Amber take a flying coach to the Royal Preparatory Academy. There she meets the headmistresses: Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Sofia asks them to teach her how to be a true princess by the day of her royal debut ball. While giving her a tour of the school, they tell her that becoming a true princess is something that takes time. Everyone takes an instant shine to Sofia, making Amber jealous and prompting her to convince James to give Sofia a ride on the Enchanted Swing Set. James does so, which makes everyone's smiles vanish, as he realized that Amber tricked him. The swing ride sends Sofia sailing through the air and then into a fountain with a splash. Despite really being upset, Princess Zandar reassures her that the first day is the toughest and he got pranked as well, and Sofia laughs it off and walks away soaking wet. Sofia stumbles across a baby bird who has fallen out of its nest and helps it return to its mother. Her interaction with the mother bird and her baby shows how lonely she feels now that she's a princess and misses the days when it was just her and her mother. Just then, Sofia's amulet begins to glow and she unexpectedly hears the birds saying "Thank you."
After returning home, Cedric intercepts Sofia and takes her to his workshop where he reveals to her that her amulet is the Amulet of Avalor, a powerful relic that can grant the wearer a blessing or a curse when the wearer does a great deed, for better or worse. He asks her to let him take a look at it, but she refuses because she promised her father that she would never take it off and she was taught by her mother that when she makes a promise, she must keep it, no matter what.
The next morning, Sofia meets Clover, Mia, Robin, and Whatnaught and discovers that she can understand what they're saying. Remembering what Cedric said about her amulet and helping that baby bird, she realizes the amulet has given her the power to talk to animals which Clover is delighted to hear. Clover reveals the reason woodland creatures have always helped princesses is because they want food and Sofia, who's happy to finally have new friends, obliges. Now confident, Sofia now dedicates herself to becoming the best princess ever both to fulfill her responsibilities as one and to prove herself to everyone. However, Sofia still remains distant from James and Amber because of the stunt they pulled on her and she no longer trusts anyone and feels that she's on her own. When she comes home the day before the royal ball, she finds her friends Ruby and Jade waiting for her. During the visit, James comes over to apologize for the stunt he and Amber played on her and offers to make it up to her by helping her prepare for her ball, which she accepts. He also tells her about Professor Popov's dance class the next day, which happens to be on the same day as the ball, unaware that Amber is spying on them.
Sofia arrives at dance class, but before she can take some dance shoes, Amber comes by and hands her a special pair, saying they can help her dance better. Sofia steps forward to receive her dance lessons, but the shoes start making her dance oddly and out of control just a few minutes later. Sofia realizes the shoes are trick shoes because of the glow they are giving off and stops long enough to notice Amber nastily sneering at her. At this moment, Sofia realizes that Amber tricked her just before she's sent crashing to the ground, and everyone in the room laughs at her. Knowing Amber gave her the trick shoes on purpose, she gets back up, throws a cushion aside, slams the trick shoes on the carpet, and gives Amber a hateful glare that also helps James realize who gave Sofia those trick shoes and why, prompting him to shoot at her a hateful glare, too, but Amber simply feigns sympathy, which Sofia doesn't fall for. When the trio returns to the coach, Amber states that she must have grabbed them by mistake and sarcastically apologizes, but Sofia doesn't buy this and angrily shuns her as she knows Amber gave them to her on purpose to ruin her dance lesson.
As with many classic Disney movies, music plays an important role in Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess and the Sofia the First series. The movie features five original songs ranging in musical styles from contemporary pop in songs like "Rise and Shine" and ballads like "Not Ready to Be a Princess" to those with more of a traditional classic Dis...
•Ariel Winter as Sofia
•Sara Ramirez as Queen Miranda
•Wayne Brady as Clover
•Tim Gunn as Baileywick
•Darcy Rose Byrnes as Princess Amber
•Zach Callison as Prince James
The special got the 5th most viewers for the week, with 5.151 million viewers in the United States, the highest for any Disney animated special since Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation! in 2009. It was #1 or #2 for several areas: Top cartoon, non-sports program, top 1-hour show, and top Disney show. It has the largest 2-5 crowd (1.5 million) since...
•This is the first Disney Junior pilot special since the Little Einsteins special Our Huge Adventure, released in 2005.
•Jennifer Hale, the voice of Cinderella, did her own singing for the song "True Sisters" as Tami Tappan (who provided her singing voice in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time) was unable to make the recording.
•Miranda becomes the Queen of Enchancia, King Roland's second wife, and the Royal Family's matriarch.
•Sofia becomes Enchancia's second Princess and the Royal Family's youngest member.
•This episode premiered to celebrate Mickey's 84th Birthday.
•This is the first Sofia the First episode that features five songs, and also the only episode in the series to feature five songs until the series finale, "Forever Royal".
•When Sofia arrives at the Enchancia Castle and gets out of the carriage, she is dressed as a commoner, but shortly after she wears her new signature outfit as a princess.
•When Sofia arrives at her first class at Royal Prep, Jade is sitting to the right of Princess Jun, in the back of the room.
•When the princes pick up Sofia's books for her, her amulet is missing.
•After trying to take Sofia's amulet for the first time, Cedric points to an imaginary wristwatch. None of the characters in the entire series has a wristwatch.
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