Glitter Force: The Movie

Glitter Force: The Movie is a 2016 animated film produced by Saban Brands and made for Netflix. It is an English dub of '''Smile Pretty Cure! The Movie: Big Mismatch in a Picture Book!''', which released in October of 2012 in Japan.

The movie is currently available on Netflix in all countries excluding Asia, along with Glitter Force (series) and Glitter Force Doki Doki.

Synopsis
The movie transports the Glitter Force into a world inside a picture book, where they are guided by Nicole, a mysterious inhabitant of the picture book world.

Plot
The story starts in the past. As a young Emily is seen playing in the playground and finds a picture book with the ending pages torn out. The scene changes to her reading aloud to herself in the library, where she tries to smile and finally she make friends. Afterwards, she promises to the book to continue the story.

In the present day, Emily and the other Glitter Force girls are at the World Picture Book Exhibition having fun and enjoying themselves, unaware that a shadow had been following them. Soon enough, they find the small theater called "The Big Adventure in a Picture Book." Kelsey suggests a 3D movie, but Emily and Lily reject the idea, as the Glitter Force head inside. The movie shows a girl being chased by the two demons: Geno and Kevin from Journey from the West, who find her hiding. Running away, the girl finally shows her face and jumped out from the screen, being caught by Emily. However, the demons follow her as well; kidnapping her and causing the Glitter Force to fight them. After retrieving the girl, she introduces herself as Nicole, and after being requested by the others, she send herself and the Glitter Force to the Fairy Tale World which looks like Jubiland.

Once they arrive, Nicole reveals that the Glitters can become any character from a picture book, which they gladly accept. She then sends them off, seaming happy that she could please her guests. However, once no one is around, she says to herself, "You liar."

As they split into different dimensions, the Glitter Force have given to their main character roles at each stories, there are: Cinderella (Emily), One-Inch Boy (Kelsey), Sun Wukong (Lily), Tom (April) and Minnie (Chloe). After seeing the real main characters of their stories, the five are suddenly confused, wondering why the stories are mixed up: Emily meets Minnie, Chloe meets Tom, Lily meets Sun Wukong, Kelsey meets One-Inch Boy, and April meets Cinderella.

Nicole snaps her fingers in order to possess the five fairy tale characters, turning them into the Demon King's minions and the Glitter Force end up being chased (and Chloe letting her hair down by force). They eventually meet up and are protected by the villains from the original stories from Cinderella's punch. The evil-controlled characters then mentioned that there would be no happy or bad endings for any story - no ending at all, shocking the others. Soon, Candy and Emily realize that the real Minnie has been controlled by the shadow, and they transform and try to release the shadow from the real characters. However, Glitter Sunny retains her small form, but thanks to the help of One-Inch Boy's mallet, the giant Cinderella and the small Glitter Sunny reverted back to normal. The shadow then comes out of Cinderella, but the other four characters remained to be possessed.

Suddenly, Nicole claps to get everyone's attention and shows her true feelings to Glitter Lucky, shocking her as she remembers her forgotten past. Nico teleports away by being hugged by unknown shadow, and the villain character in the story throws the Glitter Force in order to follow her. After landing in a fairy tale town, Glitter Lucky tells the story about the book involving Nicole in it:

"Like her name, Nicole is a girl who is always smiling. The animals who didn't get along with each other... became friends with Nicole’s smile. And one day, the Demon King who hated smiles took Nico away. The smiles disappeared from the animals' faces and they continued to fight with each other. And then, Nicole was trapped inside the Demon Castle."

Peace then asked about what would happen to Nicole, but Lucky replied that the story's continuation was interrupted because the pages were torn out and it never ended. Another flashback shows that Lucky was thinking about drawing the rest of the torn out pages, but gave up when she thought her drawings were never good enough. Thus, Lucky believes that everything was her fault. However, Sunny forces a smile on Lucky’s face, telling her that if she didn't smile, her happiness would run away. With the others' encouragement, Lucky decides she wants to go to the Demon King Castle and apologize to Nicole. At the other side, the Demon King does the same thing to Nicole in order to show her true feelings.

When the Glitter Force reached the castle's main entrance, Nicole responds negatively on Lucky’s apology, and stomps her feet to summon the beaten villains and the evil-controlled characters to fight the Glitter Force. The girl end up get beaten, and Nicole tries to convince the girl that Emily is the cause of all their pain, and that they should hate her. The other Cures decline, saying that they love Emily and her smile. Finally, Lucky was able to get to Nicole and reveal her true feelings. After apologizing again and hugging Nicole, she finally accepts her apology. But this causes the Demon King's dismay and he traps Nicole into the cage and absorbs the shadow controlling the main characters into him.

While the Glitters fight monsters, the villain characters (with Candy on one of their shoulders) try to release Nicole from her cage, saying that she should embrace all of her true feeling, causing the torn out pages to shine. The cage then disappears, and once getting back on the ground, the pages are restored, much to the Demon King's dismay again. The Glitters decide to use the Pegasus Power Attack, but the Demon King fights back, and destroys the attack. With the Glitters unconscious, the Demon King also destroys the Fairy Tale World, turning it into a wasteland-like place.

Nicole tries to persuade Demon King but to no effect, causing him to throw an attack at her. Once the attack doesn't hit her, Nicole is confused, until she realizes that Princess Lucky sacrificed herself in order to protect her. Killed by the Demon King's strike, Nicole raises her Ultra Glitter Light to give power to Emily, giving the island a pink glow and transform Princess Lucky into Ultra Glitter Lucky.

Ultra Glitter Lucky uses her power to defeat a dark-magic ball created by the Demon King, giving the flower field to all the surrounding grounds. Then she introduces herself as "A fabulous shimmer, a glow in your heart, I’m Ultra Glitter Lucky!". The other Glitters wake up, join up with Ultra Lucky and Nicole, and agree that they should try to purify the Demon King. With other Princess Forms' power wrapping the Demon King with angel wings, Ultra Lucky is able to persuade him and purifies the Demon King into his true form with a hug and a smile.

Afterwards Nicole shows that she wants the world full of smiles, including the Demon King, and apologizes to messing up the stories while resolving to make the ending of her story herself. Moreover, she says that despite what she claimed earlier, Nicole truly loves Emily. This makes Emily to cry happily and the movie ends with Nicole’s storybook creating a wing Glitter Charm.

During a post-credits scene, Emily and the others tell us (the viewers at home) to join in and dance, resulting in Wake Up Shake Up playing as the ending.

Glitters

 * Glitter Lucky
 * Glitter Sunny
 * Glitter Peace
 * Glitter Spring
 * Glitter Breeze

Pixies

 * Candy

Movie Characters

 * Nicole
 * Demon King
 * Cinderella
 * One-Inch Boy
 * Tom
 * Minnie
 * Cow King
 * Blue Demon
 * Green Demon

Trivia

 * The original Japanese version was the first Glitter Force franchise movie to hit number one on the weekly box office sales in Japan, earning about ¥193,000,000 (US: $2.42 million)
 * Emily is the only character to not have an oriental fairy tale role. She's portrayed as Cinderella for the second time in the series.