But although she fits the part, the part in question is still stuck in a very backwards role. People can’t get enough of their Frozen fix (self most especially included), and even seven minutes back in Arendelle is worth the ticket price.įirst thing’s first, I like Lily James as Cinderella. Even when the film is at its shakiest, Cate Blanchett helps liven things up.Īww yeah! Frozen! Woo! Seriously, we all know the short film Frozen Fever is the primary reason Cinderella has done so well at the box office. It doesn’t matter that her character is ridiculously antagonistic, Cate Blanchett makes Lady Tremaine interesting based on performance alone. Thank God for Cate Blanchett, who steals every last scene she’s in as Lady Tremaine (AKA the Wicked Stepmother). However, there are still some areas that could have definitely benefitted from some modernization. The movie acknowledges some diversity in the people of Cinderella’s kingdom without ever forcibly pointing it out, making it feel like a kind of idealized fairy tale world. It may be the same story of Cinderella we all know, but I’ll take that over the clunkiness (and garish visuals) of Maleficent.Ĭinderella doesn’t aim for a whole lot of modernization, but it does have at least one respectably modern aspect about it. And its core relationship between Maleficent and Aurora never quite worked.Ĭinderella, although lacking in surprises, at least knows what it’s going for. It never knew whether it wanted to be a charming Disney movie or something (*cue Napoleon Dynamite-style groan*) darker and edgier. There wasn’t a single plot twist that didn’t feel both predictable and forced. In this day and age, that’s kind of relieving.ĭisney’s last attempt at turning one of their animated films into a live-action feature, Maleficent, was a bit of a mess. While a straight up adaptation of Cinderella may seem a tad superfluous, seeing as Disney’s animated version is already synonymous with the House of Mouse, you have to appreciate that the live-action Cinderella isn’t trying to make the story into something “cool” or “edgy” to try to appeal to today’s audiences. So here’s a brief lists of the things I think worked for the new Cinderella, and the things that didn’t work. It’s inoffensive, but it doesn’t exactly justify Disney’s recent obsession with turning their animated back catalogue into live-action films. Sure, it could be a whole lot worse than it is, but it also could be a whole lot better. Disney’s live-action version of Cinderella is a bit of a mixed bag.
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