Review of Cinderella (2015) by Jacob — 22 Mar 2015

Cinderella takes a classic Disney film and very much like the Stepmother and Stepsisters due to Cinderella’s dress rip it of all its grace and beauty but unfortunately, there is no fairygodmother to save it.

Cinderella is a soulless cashgrab and it shows through the needless padding, lack of subtlety, and poorly written characters. The film goes the route of the Hobbit trilogy dragging tiny pieces of the original out to excessive lengths with the two minute prologue lasting a whopping 25 minutes.

Cinderella quiet resolve is thrown out the window as the narrator talks the audience through her character and the villain loses her quiet intensity. The acting from Cate Blanchett and Helena Bottom Carter is good and the visuals are grand and impressive at times especially during the ball scene but the film does nothing to justify its exsistence or give me any reason to watch this verison when there is a perfectly good version.

The Frozen short before this was meh but it was way better than this turd. Unless you are a little girl or a die-hard Disney fan save your money all you are doing is encouraging more lazy live action films that butcher classic timeless stories.

It saddens me that we live in a world where a studio will make terrible unoriginal films and they will be a success to this extent. Please prove me wrong on the next round as I can’t bear to sit through another snorefest.