Editor’s Note: Lori wanted to review and analyze Cinderella, so here she is in her second guest blog. Enjoy!
~ Matthew Bowman, Supreme Editor Monkey at Novel Ninja.
I’ll say it right at the outset: Cinderella is one of the best movies I have seen recently.
Now, after I reviewed Old Fashioned — a movie I wanted to like — Matthew and I were both told on Facebook that we’re not qualified to review rom-coms, so I guess I’m not qualified here either. Or the haters can just go jump in the nearest lake.
The movie is visually beautiful, with a bare minimum of CGI. The music is compelling, the acting is quite well done and convincing, the humor is tasteful and just enough to make the story light and pleasant (but not enough to make it silly) and the story is almost perfect.
Comparing this version to the original Disney Cinderella (1950), this one is superior in every way, and not just because it is a modern film with real actors. The original Cinderella is a child’s movie, with a child’s plot. There is no real development of anyone’s character, including Cinderella’s, the prince is barely in the movie at all, and most of the screen time is spent with Cinderella’s talking and singing animal friends. This is not a bad thing in itself; I loved Cinderella as a kid (but not as much as Beauty and the Beast or The Little Mermaid). It’s not a bad story; it just could have been so much better.
Fortunately for fans of the fairy tale, now it is.
I don’t think any SPOILER ALERTS are necessary here. Even if you haven’t seen this version of Cinderella (you should do so as soon as possible), we all know the story, and we all know how it ends. Continue reading
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