Cinderella

I’ve lost count on the times I’ve watched Cinderella. I’ve watched several versions of Cinderella, but I actually forgot what the first one I watched, the animated Disney version, was in terms of storyline. Although I’ve watched it several times before, I did not remember some details like the ball was one night instead of three or the insistence on the role of Lucifer, the cat, as a villain and the simplified heroic characters.

I had this storyline in my mind that I’ve seen several times in movies like Into The Woods where Cinderella went the ball consists for three nights and the prince is not portrait like the smart prince he is supposed to be.  What I mean is in other versions during the last day of the ball, he comes with an extremely intelligent plan, but here he is just one more character.

The development of the hero characters is also disappointing. We barely get to see Cinderella’s development. In other versions she consistently mourns for her family’s death several times EVERY day, but here she only does it once! I think the other versions are more interesting because they give Cinderella the character development she actually deserves.

On the other hand, let’s talk about Lucifer chasing mice for half of the runtime of the movie! I do remember that Cinderella was this long movie with interesting characters and maybe that was because of the amount of versions I’ve seen over the years that I have an incredible mashup of what the perfect Cinderella would be. I had really big expectations while re-watching the animated versions and I think that it was not as big as I imagined it and therefore I am a little disappointed. 

I remember that when I was a child I enjoyed the animated version a lot, but now, not so much. Maybe back when I was little I found entertainment in a protected animal running from a devastating and extremely dumb predator, but now I just think that the animators where only trying to get the children attention and not giving the movie a meaning as now a days great children movies have.

Cinderella is the classic Disney Princess movie. It is a movie that I watched and re-watched and enjoyed every time, but now I think it is not that good compared to more recent versions. Maybe I think this because the first movie of Cinderella is old and not as well developed like a small draft or maybe it is that movie that I’ve watched so many times that I need to see something new and different to be impressed. Something like rhyming glue and shoe in a smart way while creating an interesting plot just like it is done in Into The Wood. Or something like real character development which is inexistent in the animated version.

I would have enjoyed watching more dancing scenes between Cinderella and the prince and less scenes of Lucifer chasing Gus or more scenes of Cinderella and her true family building background information and making the audience more sentimental. In short I was disappointed and was expecting much more when it was not there, but still I think it is a great movie for bare children entertainment.