Clarissa the Cavalier

Clarissa the Cavalier is a 2004 animated movie made by Hey Television. It's rated Y7-FV in the United States, PG in the United Kingdom and 12A in Ireland.

Plot
The movie starts with Clarissa (and Charlotte, her sister) working in a forge because they're "orphans" (It's not known what happened to their parents). Clarissa's friends Lizzy and Wally visited the forge, which ended up distracting the young girl.

Unfourtenally, her boss caught her lossing the focus on work to play with her friends. She scolded the girl, said that this has been very recurrent and decided to punish her by sending her to a dungeon

Clarissa was sent to a dungeon near to her boss's house, it had multiple doors, she found one, it was a bit scratched but she found the key for it. She decided to open it, but it was a terrible idea...

30 hungry and angry monsters were behind that door waiting someone to open it, Clarissa didn't knew what to do, but, for her luck, her friends managed to find her. She closed the door and explained everything to them and later asked if they had any sort of weapon.

Lizzie had a long sword and Wally has a small knife. He also bringed the sword she made before her punishment.

The trio decided to reopen the door, they all tried to fight the monsters but they were really fast (making them able to kill only 7 monsters) and leaved the dungeon.

Charlotte was found by Clarissa, she decided to tell everything to her, she was relatively mad at her 12 or 13 year old sister as this is technically her fault

Later, she found her friends again. They figured out that they couldn't fight the monsters alone so they decided to ally theirselfes with the Knights of the kingdom.

At first, the knights found the three young a bit strange but decided to help them fight the monsters as long as they help them too and don't mess up.

With the help of the group, they killed more 10 monsters, 13 were still alive and went to other kingdoms of that island. The situation was pretty hard.

Clarissa later found her boss and told her about the dominance of monsters in their kingdom. She said that she knew about the monsters and sent her to that dungeon because she was too silly and she was already tired of that girl.

Our protagonist got really angry because of the reveal but went back to the fight.

In the middle of the fight, Clarissa, Lizzy, Wally and the Taclorese Kingdom's Knights heard a loud noise 3 miles away from them. A monster that was traveling to another kingdom to destroy it accidentally collided with the royal castle of the Taclorese Kingdom.

The group went running to the castle, even though the royal family survived, the castle was partially destroyed. The monster was found of the floor, which Lizzy ended up killing.

The king seemed really shocked. They went to talk with him and he told them to find the rest of the royal family.

The queen was on the kitchen because, d'accord her, cooking calms her, meanwhile the Prince was in the bathroom and the princess in her room. They all seemed scared about it.

One of the knights asked the king if he owned a shotgun because it would be helpful for the crew, the king said he did own one and gave it to him, suddenly, 9 out of the 12 creatures attack the castle, the Knight immedialy shot three of them.

Out of nowhere, a mysterious girl tied the necks of two monsters. It was Charlotte, she told everything to the Royal Family, the Knights and Clarissa's friends.

D'accord Charlotte, she overheard her little sister's conversation with her boss and later called her out for this and said she was responsable for the kingdom of that island being "wrecked and herself said", immediatly after this, three monsters break a wall and two windows, they had some blood, small corpses and flags of the other four kingdoms.

It was around 1 AM, almost everyone went to sleep, including the monsters (somehow). In the middle of the night, the representants of the five kingdoms went to talk a bit about the situation, they later got in a deal that, some hours later, the children of the royal family would make a speech about the situation to the people of all the kingdoms of that island.

Everyone waked up, five monsters were killed before the Taclorese Kingdom's representator told the prince and princess that they would do a speech for the isle's people about the monsters.

Everyone went to a proscenium to see the speech. While the speech was happening, two monsters died after coliding with theirselfes. After the end of the first discuss made mainly by the princess, the last monster appeared, which scared everyone, the prince started at her sister but suddenly she got a shotgun and killed the monster. Everyone got speechless after that.

After that, she started to talk about the origin of the monsters, she mentioned Clarissa and her boss that almost killed her.

Clarissa asked what would happened with her boss, the prince showed a coin to that grumpy woman and said that, if it landed heads, she would be eternly arrested and, if it landed tails, she would go through a kind of torture with a 50% chance of death. The coin landed heads and she was arrested.

Almost everything solved, but the only bad thing was that both Clarissa and Charlotte were jobless.

While Clarissa was talking with her friends, the leader of the Knights said that the four young could join their group if they wanted to (In the case of Clarissa, Lizzy and Wally, they would go to a Juvenile Group as they're under 14)

The three friends seemed pretty happy about it and Charlotte said that she never expected to become a knight or any sort of warrior but would accept joining the group.

They went to the cavaliers' group, there were some other kids in the juvenille affiliate, they seemed funny and the movie ended with they all playing around while the older cavaliers were talking about something.

Production
The movie was made in the studios of HTV in the United States and the UK & Ireland. The creators of the movie are Phil Stevens, Frank Boyd and Olivia Loxley and their idea was declined by Disney and approved by Hey Television in 2002.

Reception
The movie may not be one the most loved movies made by Hey Television but is definetly considered a classic and it also originated a second movie launched in 2010.

Clarissa the Cavalier was rated 7.7/10 on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.3 on IMDb.

This movie was made with a budget of $30 million and grossed $110 million.