The Untold Tale of the Clockwork Princess

Story Upon The World: Rescue of The Lovely Princess is a 2018 live-action/hand drawn animated fantasy adventure film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sega, WildBrain, Amblin Entertainment, and Steven Spielberg. It is based on the works of Don Oriolo, Namco, and Yuji Naka.

Plot
Angelica, a 7 yr old girl who has sprained her ankle, which caused her to stay out of school until September. She knews that she in tears while sleeping in her sadness emotion. Her grandmother, Edith knows that she was trying so hard in 1st grade. It is nearly the end of the school year because it takes place in May. Edith wants her granddaughter to think about happy things. When Angelica dreams in The Mercy Hospital in Miami, Florida during her surgery at nighttime. Animated sequences come to appear with a lovely human princess, who is happy and cheerful. She loves happy things. Until a villain who looks like The Duke of Zill, Spooky, and Hexxus, called The Lord of Nightmares takes the princess away, she sheds a magical tear. Which floats away to a different world. Manic is on a mission to rescue the princess that was taken away by The Lord of Nightmares. When Manic meets new friends in a dream. He is in the world of fantasy and landscape. The Starlight fairies (Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple) wants Manic to bring back sweet dreams and rescue the princess. When Manic comes to the Castle of Nightmares, a princess is held captured in a dark dungeon of nightmares. She cries for Manic's aid. But The Lord of Nightmares throws Manic away from a helpless princess. Manic fights off against the Lord of Nightmares. And he rescues the princess, bringing her back to her colorful castle. The princess kissed Manic on his cheek. The movie ends with Angelica waking up the next morning in the Mercy Hospital in Miami, Florida with her friends, Jane and Taylor. Who missed Angelica at school.

Running Time
The runniing time for the film is 89 minutes long.

Soundtrack for Story Upon The World: Rescue of The Lovely Princess

 * 1) Carried Away, performed by Olivia Newton-John (1981)
 * 2) Please Don't Be Scared, performed by Barry Manilow (1989)
 * 3) Up Where We Belong, performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes (1982)
 * 4) What Goes Around, performed by Regina Belle (1989)
 * 5) She's So Beautiful, performed by Cliff Richard (1985)
 * 6) A Dream Worth Keeping, performed by Sheena Easton (1992)
 * 7) On My Own, performed by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (1986)
 * 8) Whatever You Imagine, performed by Wendy Moten (1994)

Marketing
Mattel has agreed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, SEGA, WildBrain and Amblin Entertainment to make toys based on the movie. Especially the dolls based on the princess and Manic The Hedgehog. Quaker Oats produces specially marked Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes for a kids' matinee ticket for Story Upon The World: Rescue of The Lovely Princess during it's theatrical run. McDonald's would have 12 different toys based on the movie, not only that the toys would come in happy meals, but in value meals too. And IDW also produces comics based on the film.

Release
It would originally get released in June 2018. But pushed back to October of that year to avoid competition with Universal's Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom and Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles 2.

Box Office
The box office results are disappointing for MGM, due to poor marketing. Costing MGM $95,000,000 to produce the film, but only made $41,000,000 worldwide.

Critical Reception
The critics generally give the film very positive reception due to some kind of animated movie that has never been weird and cool since Felix The Cat: The Movie (1988), mixing in with the live-action elements from The Princess Bride (1987). On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie received a 83% "Fresh" rating based on 11 reviews.

DVD release
NCircle Entertainment came in and helped the DVD release of the film 3 months after the film's release. The Blu-Ray edition got scrapped at the last minute due to the film's poor box office performance. The film would become a cult favorite once the DVD would get released in January 2019.

The Short Film Before The Movie
The short film that is shown before Story Upon The World: Rescue of The Lovely Princess is a Woody Woodpecker cartoon from 1940, called "Knock Knock!".