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Anastasia is currently available to stream on Disney Plus. Polygon first published a version of this story in 2019, right after the Disney-Fox acquisition.
After Walt Disney’s successful acquisition of 21st Century Fox, a good deal of movies, TV shows, and characters now exist under the Disney banner. This includes the Fox-owned Marvel superheroes like the X-Men and Deadpool. It also means Fox’s animated princess, Anastasia, is now part of the Disney collective.
Released in 1997, Anastasia arrived at the tail end of the Disney Renaissance, amidst other coming-of-age movies involving sweeping ballgowns and catchy musical sequences, so Meg Ryan’s plucky, animated heroine is often assumed to be a Disney Princess. Now that she belongs to Disney, many are celebrating the fact that Anastasia can be anointed with the title.
Not to be a Disney purist and a spoilsport, but I’m here to be a Disney purist and a spoilsport: Just because Anastasia is a princess that belongs to Disney doesn’t mean she qualifies as a Disney Princess. There are objective reasons.
“Disney Princess” is not an arbitrary character title; it is a franchise, and the lineup is prestigious. The franchise was created in the early 2000s…