i’ve never liked how hollywood kept watering down cinderella’s character, the whole point isn’t that she wants to be famous or marry a prince to become a princess, it was so she had one night of freedom from ball away from her abusive family. but now she’s portrayed of a spoiled brat who has a mean stepmom, idk it just bothers me.
This comment 100%."This is a feminist take on cinderella" oh i'm sorry, was the desire to escape from an abusive household and managing to maintain a kind heart in the face of adversity not feminist enough for you?
For an expansion on that last line I suggest The Take's "Cinderella" review. She was not a weak, fragile & spoiled girl - she wanted to escape abuse and took the only way out she could. The prince didn't "save her" she saved HERSELF.
That's a perfect sum up of the Cinderella character that I love. The 1952 animated Cinderella is still my favorite, even Disney and other companies f the original idea up. Mini rant: A few years ago there was a Hallmark Ornament of Cinderella holding a soap bubble like in the sing sweet nightingale scene, problem is THERE WAS A SCENE OF HER AND THE PRINCE DANCING IN THE-MINI BUBBLE , not here reflection, like she was longing for him but the Sweet sing nightingale happened BEFORE she knew anything of the prince or ball. SHE DOENST CARE ABOUT GETTING MARRIED, SHE CRIED AND FLUNG HERSELF ON THE GARDEN BENCH IN THE MOVIE BECAUSE SHE WAS AT HER BREAKING POINT not because she wanted to meet the prince. 🙄
What I thought was hilarious was Cinderella literally did no chores! The step sisters and step mom were shown constantly doing laundry. All Cinderella did was serve tea and shitty looking biscuits. If I were the stepmom, I’d be pissed also.
The stepmother actually made her daughters do all the job that cinderella did because she wants to show them what's life going to be like if they don't marry big.
I really hate that these "girlboss" storylines always involve a guy with no personality or aspirations in life who exists just to drop everything for the girl. Like, that's just the same bad trope in reverse. Ugh.
Unlike in Ever After, there we have a Prince who didn't want to be King, but after meeting and falling for "Cinderella" was inspired by her morals and world views to want to be a good King.
Exactly I hated the prince's characterization because it was so shallow. Especially giving him a "I choose Me" line. It felt meaningless cause what he wanted was to just drink and foxhunt with the boys. It had way less weight than Cinderella. Like if you want that phrase to have meaning, make sure when ya use it it always has weight behind it. If someone tries a feminist take, on a story like this, I hope they make the men competent. You don't have to make men dumb to make women smart. It's annoying, sexist, and frankly overdone.
You've all echoed my thoughts exactly; I'm so frustrated with the "stupid" male love interests, it does feel sexist and pretentious, like it insults our intelligence somehow. I'm also tired of the "I'm not like my dad" trope, which seems to be the only character arc they can give to the male lead; all the relationships feel so contrived and unbelievable. Even Ella Enchanted did the romance better, and it wasn't perfect. At least Charmont wasn't instantly smitten with Ella; he did find her attitude refreshing, but their affection for each other was gradual and natural (albeit still in a short timeframe). They complimented each other; Ella in particular believing that Charmont could be a good king and make a positive impact for the kingdom, and he felt that was possible with her in his life. They actually make change happen, which wouldn't be possible if Ella made Charmont abdicate the throne for her. Anastasia is even better; that film is proper female empowerment, with great chemistry between the leads and brilliant character development. Dimitri is charming (and most importantly, smart!), the relationship is equal and believable. At least we'll always have the classics.
@@iwakeupandboomimarat I also thought he was gay lol, and he would be her partner in business. Maybe bringing the money and high paying clients, while she did the desining and sewing. He had great marketing ideas, like dressing the princess in Ella's gown, why don't expand on that? They could create Ella&prince couture house
@@vilwarin5635 i would love to see an adaption that does that !! plus it could cover the stigma of being lgbt in such a traditional family with a large focus on heterosexual marriage, like a royal family
I unfortunately can't get the image of James Corden dressed as a mouse, running into traffic and pelvic thrusting at random innocent people as part of a marketing stunt. "Singing". Oh there was "singing" at these times too. If random people ran at my car dressed in costumes and started a dance routine when I came to a stoplight , I'm pretty sure I'd freak the hell out and there would be an accident.
@@SophiaPhannn HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT CAMILA LIKE THAT HER VOICE IS POPPY BUT THAT’S WHAT THIS CINDERELLA IS SUPPOSED TO BE SHE’S DIFFERENT AND THAT’S WHY SHE’S SPECIAL
Barbie's "The Princess and The Pauper" did a better job of Ella and the prince's character arcs in this production. The pauper (Erika in the movie) also wanted to have an independent career (as a singer), the prince figure (King Dominick) liked Ericka even if she was disguised as a princess, and Erika actually gets to have a great career before marrying Dominick.
Big ol plot hole: the magic at the ball was supposed to make her unrecognizable to everyone but the prince. How did the queen recognize her without it?
That annoyed me so much. They made it a point to say and show it only worked for the prince. So it shouldn't have worked for the queen. They could've fixed it by saying only, the prince and the queen. Or have her find out it was Cinderella by having the prince tell her, "the dress my sister is wearing is by Ella's designs". I feel like they forget their own rule and just hoped no one would notice.
Imagine, instead of blabbering like an idiot towards the queen, Ella had been humble instead and said it wasn't *her* dress because she would have never been able to make this by hand (because it was, in fact, made by magic and she had said to the fab godmother that it would never work before the spell. So why wouldn't she go with it? She designed it, yes. But it wasn't *made* by her. Instead of the blatantly girl-boss characterization, this might have actually given her depth.). Then later, the prince would turn out to be the one telling the foreign queen that Ella designed the dress, as proof that he supports her, because he was the only effing soul to be able to clarify that as he was the only exception to the spell. Cherry on top of it all if he actually wanted the throne and was good at ruling. That would have made it so much more impactful. (though I did enjoy the sister character a lot more than anyone else on the movie. But they could have had a pretty good sibling rivalry too, with her being always on eye-level and yet still getting ignored because, in the end, she's just a girl). It was pretty clear from the beginning that he in fact did not really want to rule and that his sister is a better choice. So it was the "easy" solution for this movie to have him give up the throne and spend his days with Ella, which made it all the more obvious. No real conflict imo.
@@CazuhLynn Or they could fix it by changing her line by saying that the dress she is wearing is made from a girl in the market or something like that, it was a easy thing to do. And what you say it make the character 100 better than the ones in the movies, their romance would have way more meaning...
no, but actually, everything you disliked about this movie is exactly what I hated about it too *the costumes*: like you said, super historically ambiguous and very disjointed (and super hideous) *the music*: jukebox musicals are laZY and the songs they chose were horrible and, for a cast full of singers, the music sucked (except for the queens Minnie and Idina just tryna get their bag) *the dialogue*: truly terrible *the cast*: bad *the story*: trash, especially because in whatever ambiguous medieval time they live in, Cinderella could absolutely have had a dressmaking business with ZERO ridicule because dressmakers were usually low or middle class women... so... all in all, -2/10, I won't forgive them for ripping off Ella Enchanted (the true Cinderella girl boss)
I agree on all points except about Ella Enchanted that movie is an absolute disgrace to the books they ripped out everything interesting and insightful. The movie's only redeeming value is the origami line.
@@Labinzel that is actually pretty fair, it isn’t like the book at all (which bothers me too), but I still did enjoy the movie a lot. I think that I just view the book and the movie as separate stories that share some similarities here and there.
They HAD to give James Corden too many moments didn't they? We couldn't just have him turn human, that would have been more than enough, no, we had to get terrible scat solo, a toilet humor anatomy joke, "OMG WE CAN CLAP" and even a disturbing big head reverse instant transformation....bloody hell...
This was such a tired, boring movie with cringey dialogue, bad acting, JAMES CORDEN, questionable CGI… I honestly have no idea what they were thinking? This must have been a rushed program or SOMETHING. Just racking on well known actors or singers doesn’t make a good movie. :/ It literally doesn’t do anything inventive or new or entertaining with the adaptation it’s just a Wattpad book on the screen
Why is James Corden becoming synonymous with questionable CGI. The more movies this man does the more he grates on my nerves like boy just stop while you're ahead
The only Cinderella movies I prefer is the original animated Disney version, Rodger and Hemmerstien with Brandy and Whitney Houston and the Live action version with Lily James and that's it.
I’m glad that people are realizing how condescending “girl boss” is. I support women in charge, but girl boss has felt backhanded to me. The characters barely had any depth. And like you said there’s nothing really different about this Cinderella. Sure she wants to do business in fashion, but why? Her designs don’t even stand out that much compared to the other people’s costumes. It make sense if everyone’s outfit was dull and lacked color. Showing her creative side more.
Why did they have to make this movie?! There have been MULTIPLE feminist and modern retellings of Cinderella that are much better than this pile of garbage.
Exactly! We already have Ever After, Ella Enchanted, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, Cinderella 2015, & Hallmark's A Cinderella Christmas (from 2016) to fill that quota for us; not to mention all five of them are *increasingly* much more enjoyable AND less-forced.
For real!! I’m tired of all these Cinderella remakes!! I’m glad we’re doing other Princess live action films. Like Tangled we’re getting that & will watch it. Beauty & the Beasts should have been better thou
Ever After is one. Drew Barrymores character is bad ass there. She fights for freedom and she even saved herself in the end and doesnt need the prince to save her. Its a bonus that the prince fell in love with her and they got married. The prince fell in love with her personality, wit and bravery, aside from her beauty. So yeah, Ever After is the only Cinderella adaptation that I need.
I was a bit taken aback by how many British comedians are in this movie, then I saw James corden actually produced this movie so it’s all starting to come together
The step mom wasn't even evil in this. She genuinely wanted Cinderella to settle down and have a good marriage Yes, she was pretty shitty when she spilled the ink on the dress, but overall she just seemed like a strict mother to me
“You know Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.” -Knuckles
Whenever these movies fully come out I just get more impressed by the people they hired to cut the trailers… cause somehow they managed to advertise it to look decent… or passable… like give that editor a raise please
Once, just once, I want an adaptation where the dynamics are flipped, and Cinderella is the awkward out of touch one, and the stepsisters are the beautiful and smart ones. And instead of destroying her dress, the stepmother actually lets her go, so she can completely humiliate herself in front of the prince with her clumsiness and tacky dress. The prince is the complete opposite, but instead of making up for or overlooking her odd quirks, together they make the quirks work for them. Like if she trips while they're dancing, he turns it into an elaborate dance move. That kind of thing. But the twist here is that instead of the night being magical, it's a nightmare because now she's starting to feel everything she was told growing up, about how embarrassing she is, and runs away when she finally can't take it anymore. Instead of using the slipper, the prince requests she show up at the palace for a dance. Why this is genius: all he girls that show up actually dance beautifully, including the stepsisters, so he KNOWS it's not her. Instead of before the ball, the fairy godmother shows up when Cinderella's hiding herself away, to show her a different perspective of the ball. Specifically, what the prince actually thought of her, and how he saw her, klutz and all.
I’m kind of over the awkward girl archetype. What I’d like to see is Prince Charming not be “Prince Charming”. Like in this one, I was just thinking, “What if James Acaster just stayed human and she ran off with the mouse man that supported her dreams and knows her instead of weird drunk fox hunting dude bro?
This feels like watching a children's play. Like, it's bad and it's kinda painful to sit through, but at least they seem like they're having fun I guess?
@@lll.24601 Kids have standards too. When I was in the third grade my school was treated to a musical that lampooned fairytales in the same vein as this film does with modern lingo, music, and so on. A house packed with nearly eight hundred small easily amused children and not one laugh was heard. Nor a mere chuckle. Nothing.
@@kaykutcher2103 Exactly, for real! I remember we had to do schoolplays and watch other's. We had to attend. I remember saying that: "If this would be an actual good play, they wouldn't have to force us to watch it. It's obvious nobody would care otherwise."
I really feel like this movie tried to be Ella Enchanted but failed. The only things I really liked about this movie were the costumes and the step family not being totally evil. Everything else was so unoriginal and/or cringey with a few good moments. I used to like the prince and as attractive as he is, I'm kinda annoyed by him now. 😂 I did also enjoy Minnie Driver's performance.
Yep, all the way down to the use of "Somebody to Love" & the casting of Minnie Driver. C'mon Kay Cannon that movie is underrated enough as it is, you didn't *have* to practically steal from it! 🙄
Second comment: the classic Cinderella story isn't about love saving the day, imo. I think it's more about staying kind, patient and goodhearted despite abuse and ingratitude. Classic iterations of Cinderella portray her as wanting to go to the ball to escape her daily, unforgiving routine. Meeting the prince wasn't on her to-do list. 😃
BY the way, along with my disdain for Corden in my previous comment, I have an allowance to complain because he used to be in the same acting group as one of my sisters. He was a dick to her, poking fun at her and even thought he was hot shit even then....sorry about the language. I simply cannot fathom how HE of all people got the keys to stardom when people like my sister could've/can decimate him in every artistic aspect.
15:45 Lord, they really thought they could use the "learning how male anatomy uses the bathroom" joke from Jumanjii: Welcome to the Jungle (a movie where that was actually funny) on the human mice trio but failed MISERABLY. 😬
Ella enchanted, a Cinderella story with Hilary duff, ever after, and Cinderella starring brandy and Whitney are only top tier live action Cinderella movies
You're missing "The Slipper and the Rose" (another musical version which actually gave the prince some dimension, too). I also enjoyed the second Rogers & Hammerstein Cinderella (Leslie Ann Warren as Cinderella; Stuart Damon as the Prince)--I only saw the real original once (Julie Andrews as Cinderella).
i've seen the new cinderella movie and when i tell you it's a mess, i was cringing the entire time. the only bearable parts of the movie were idina menzel and billy porter's performances.
The transformation from monarch butterfly to Billy Porter in a gorgeous gold-orange dress was the best scene in the whole movie. Not gonna lie, having the FG first appear as a (seemingly-ugly) caterpillar that (Cinder)Ella rescues was a cool way to have them meet. 🦋 Edit: The FG mocking the mice the same way they mocked them was also a nice touch. (Using 'them' because FG is meant to be genderless in this film).
honestly i love jukebox musicals and the only song i can stand is whatta man/seven nation army, and even then it feels like it has some major tempo issues
im so sorry to the gentleman playing the prince but anne hathaway did the superior cover of *somebody to love* no one and I mean no one will ever do a queen’s *somebody to love* as graceful, iconic and magical as she did
I wonder why they didn’t emphasise the IT’S A LATINA CINDERELLA A BIG DEAL SINCE BRANDY Like all the other princess had representation international dresses but Camilla’s character dresses “plain” R if their picking pop songs then why not sing a pop/latin song like the ones she famous for.
Right Only one song is by a Hispanic artist. Like if you want that credit, Actually give good representation! They made a Latina Cinderella so bland. Especially in comparison to the other women at the ball repping their culture. Like Cinderella who?
I wish they would have waited to make the “first” Latina Cinderella (technically Selena Gomez played in the Cinderella Story in 2008). I wish the industry would have given a talented UNKNOWN Latina a role as Cinderella with a stunning (non-pop) voice and far superior script than what was given here. But as time has already shown, there will be future opportunities.
03:11 I just want to say as someone with a cane, no, no they don't. Also...ew that face. I am going with "wow he is a really good actor to be able to cause me to twitch involuntarily just with his look".
for real! seeing that film when it was originally released changed my life, and i was just 6 years old at the time. i honestly credit drew's speech about utopia as the beginnings of my existence as a leftist (ain't it sad that it's been literally half a millennia since utopia was written and very little has changed regarding capitalism and classism?? love that for us haHa!!!) and the scene where she throws the prince over her shoulder is still everything. also HER DRESS AT THE BALL?? y'all need to go and look at close up pics because it's STUNNING! i still can't listen to "put your arms around me" by texas without weeping like a baby. they should've just stopped making cinderella adaptations after the one two punch of 1997 and 1998.
I have a love hate relationship with the dress she wears to the ball. The dress itself is beautiful, of course it is, but it's not what we've come to expect from Cinderellas ballgown. She's supposed to be a dress designer in this one, and she comes up with THAT?
@@janeryan2709 Unfortunately, my little sister wanted me to watch this flaming pile of garbage with her and billy porter actually used one of her designs and just made it real
This feels like the kind of movie that should have come out in 1998. Just saying 'ACK-tually, women are just as good as men!' over and over, and expecting you to be impressed at how progressive it is each time. Also I didn't realise how many British stand-ups were in it, and it's very weird.
Nah, in terms of relevance and progressivism, this movie was inoffensive and not bad. In terms of the dialogues, music, costumes, and literally everything else, this movie is super cringe.
And the funny thing is, movies like this are not even progressive. The "girlboss" concept isn't very progressive. It just wants women to also participate in the same shitty systems that men do, which isn't progress.
@@hope3290 Hello. I've been trying to understand what this girlboss concept is about. Well, I'll probably look it up later. I also want to understand how it comes into this generic movie, though. I respect your opinion and don't think I have it all figured out! Right now to me, all Cinderella did in this was want to be a designer more than marrying the prince she saw twice. I can't say the prince dropped everything for her, because he didn't feel like being the king in the first place and only truly wanted to after thinking it could lead to her being his wife. He'll probably still be rich and maybe even find something he wants to do. Also, I don't know how the movie specifically fits into wanting women to participate in the same crappy systems men do (the following is most likely a misunderstanding by me). Should women only participate in the better systems? This doesn't seem like equality. Maybe the issue was that she wasn't making it better for everyone regardless of gender? But this doesn't seem to be what you're saying. If the actual point is for women to be able to create their own systems or something, then Cinderella wanted to go work under a queen doing what she always wanted to do, and the princess is preparing to be queen (she won't be able to do whatever she feels she needs to at first, but of course hurdles are still expected). Cinderella did want to show women all around the world that she could follow her dreams, but that's cheesy at worst. The Cinderella in this movie just doesn't seem to have enough going for her in my opinion to think that her attitude related to her "woman success" (or whatever the girlboss term is about) is out there. She just seems... normal. Ah, wait. All I saw of the movie was from this review. Oops.
@@janeryan2709 I think the ModernGurlz review did a really good job pointing out just how shallow and pandery this movie’s progressivism is. Like… really hypocritical and shallow and just nonsensical.
Ella Enchanted was another take on the Cinderella story that also took heavy historical liberties, like the stepsisters having boyband posters of the prince and the characters going to high school. The difference here is that Ella wasn’t that serious a movie; it was just a fun, goofy comedy for kids and it embraced it’s wacky style to go along with it’s surprisingly unique plot.
It also focused on Ella's struggles and her trying to regain her free will. Here, it never felt like Cinderella was ever in any real danger or abuse since she never really is seen cleaning or doing household chores and given that she has enough time to make multiple dresses by hand shows that she must have a lot of time on her hands since I sew and it takes hours to make a single dress.
ppl literally weren't hating on her because she's a woman, it really was because the dresses she made were fugly smh. like, all her products were 90% tulle. girly i-
10:08 brave of this movie to try and tackle the contemporary and relevant feminist issue of whether women should be allowed to own shops I also wish that we, as a culture, explored Cinderella as an abuse story a bit more. She was abused, neglected and put down by her stepmother and stepsisters from a very young age. The thought that victims of abuse need to somehow "safe themselves" is offensive to me. My grandmother was pretty much Cinderella growing up (eerily similar story) and my grandfather married her and took her away from that home life. Why should she be a "girl boss" or whatever? The fact that my grandmother, and Cinderella too, managed to continue to be a positive influence on other people's lives and broke that cycle of abuse, that's more than admirable enough. Stop blaming victims for not being able to safe themselves. (in a tangent to that, well meaning but often misplaced efforts of -especially corporate- feminism, usually confuse celebrating femininity with making the feminine more (traditionally) masculine. Those can and should exist too of course and especially in the early days of feminism, they were necessary, but why shouldn't there be more of a focus on the feminine too? Rather than women adjusting their attitude to "A Man's World TM", us changing the world to suit us more)
I cannot believe a youtuber is being really honest about their feelings. I've just stumbled onto this account and I find it refreshing that someone is playing with danger by being open about what they really feel watching movies. 17:05 "conundrum" could be the word you're looking for
A fantastic Cinderella adaptation that I’ve loved since I was little is The Slipper and the Rose. It was made in the 70s and luckily the whole thing is on TH-cam! It’s a proper musical with original songs, beautiful cinematography, and a creative take on both the overall storyline and the fairy godmother (who travels around helping other fairytale characters). There’s no jarring dialogue and the costumes are 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 The stepmother is appropriately cruel and - unlike this movie - you really feel how Cinderella’s life became a desolate one after her parents died. There’s also something extra magical about the use of practical effects and clever camera tricks to do the transformations, given the lack of cgi 🥰 Oh! And another wonderful 1970s adaptation is Tři oříšky pro Popelku, or Three Wishes/Nuts for Cinderella. It’s a Czech movie that’s also fully uploaded onto TH-cam with English subs. This one isn’t a musical, and instead of going the fairy godmother route it uses the fairytale version where Cinderella gets three acorns, each of which represents a wish for her to use in a different situation. The actress’s portrayal of the character is so cute and sassy (not in a cringey way) and her dress for the ball is GORGEOUS - what I love about that scene in particular is that because of the lack of any sort of spell to hide her identity, she instead wears a veil in order to prevent people from recognising her.
aaahhh I LOVE Tři oříšky pro Popelku, THE Cinderella story of my childhood. So happy to see it mentioned! Cinderella is such a character there. And the Prince has really fun personality too. Not to mention small but hilarious scenes of the King and Queen's banter
@@Manka__Kasha Omg yes!! The dynamic between the Prince and his two friends was great. Plus I love the King and Queen's banter because they obviously love each other! In other versions there's either no Queen at all (dead) or their relationship seems to be completely non-existent. I think the ending is so cute as well when they're busy riding off into the distance while his teacher shouts at him for missing his lessons - it really pushes home that they're just a couple of teens. It's a complete contrast to other versions where the Prince and Cinderella are grown adults and it doesn't REALLY make sense that the Prince hasn't been married to anyone yet.
The greatest activist Cinderella will always be Drew Barrymore in “Ever After: A Cinderella Story” imo. Rewatching it here I noticed they also both get sold off to creepy men. I did actually like her ballgown in this though, especially the sleeves and bodice. But deadass WHY did they keep her hair in that braid???
Imagine how good the story could have been if it was just focused on Gwen, Cinderella and the StepMother? Like, a Cinderella that doesn't care about the ball or the Prince and wants to run a fashion bussiness? That would've been son cool! Not to mention Gwen trying to prove that she can make a better King than her brother, and the StepMother getting over the Death of another Husband and going back to piano PLEASE CAN'T WE HAVE THAT INSTEAD OF JAMES CORDEN?! 😭
If this was supposed to be the middle ages, or ... whatever ages... then after the princess became the queen, she would eventually have to kill her brother and Cinderella since abdicated or not, he still was the rightful heir to the throne. And him being alive meant instability, plots and unrest. So the way they ended the movie - the prince would either die by his sister's supporters hands or... he would be taken as hostage by that queen Tatjana who would probably want something from the prince's family. I mean she admitted killing a king, so kidnapping a neighboring kingdom's prince, that's easy.
I always hate when movies do the whole "Oh I don't need this cane it's just makes me look cool" because that makes it harder for those of us who actually need them. Not to mention asking someone about their mobility aid in general is just plain rude and disrespectful. I'm 24 and need a cane to get around and so many people who I don't even know will ask about it or think I don't really need it and movies doing that and saying "yeah this character doesn't need it they're faking" do the opposite of help
You know what would be an interesting Cinderella adaptation? If they did live-action version of its source material. The true source material. Supposedly the premise of Cinderella actually originated in China. There is an old animated version that you can find on TH-cam.
8:17 bestie what is that get down right now before they arrest you??? I totally get why the step-mother was afraid that Cinderella was gonna embarrass her 🧍♀️
I find it funny that in an attempt to make Cinderella more "inclusive" and "feminist", she just comes off as a whiny brat who just gets a fairy show up and help her for no reason. At least we can believe the Disney animated one was a nice person. Also: "'Your Highness' was the man who's blood I spilled to take this crown." Okay, and? That would still make you "Your Highness", so idk what the point of that line was except to be cringy.
Here's another one: Cinderella's whose dynamic with her step family is supposed to be that they make her do everything around the house, but we see the step family THEMSELVES doing work and hanging clothes, and seem to allow her to take all the time she wants to make her dresses.
When I saw that the mice were 3 B list british comedians I knew the director was a brit and I knew it was gonna suck. Plus that toothy blonde who wanted to marry her is also a B list british comedian. They are all far less annoying than James Corden though, I don't know anybody who likes him so I am astounded at how much work he gets.
The thing I hate the most is that they act like women didn't have tailoring and dress shops back then, Cinderella could've literally just got a job at a dress shop with all the free time she had in this movie
shes like "I dont want to be queen, I want to be a shopkeeper!" Im like "why cant you be both? Im sure queens have deep pockets, enough to finance a shop."
Thank you for shouting out Rodgers and Hammerstein! Brandi was so sweet and lovely in her role. And the costumes/references were not historically accurate, but they went well together and actually made sense in that story universe.
It’s so jarring to listen to everyone else singing Broadway style and then Camilla comes in with her pop style voice that has weird pronunciation and way too many vocal runs. It’s really difficult to listen to when in contrast with everyone else’s stable belting. It doesn’t fit the time period or setting and totally ruins any emotional investment.
My top three cinderella adaptions for story and costumes will always be: 1. Lily James 2: Whitney Houston’s 3: Ever after Why? They focused on actual plot and character development. The singers (for the musical adaptations) were talented and their talents were utilized. The princes were ones we were rooting for because he listened to Cinderella and respected her viewpoints. They kind of were the Mr. Darcy’s of the Cinderella world. They were flawed men who eventually redeemed their mistakes and earned the women’s affections. They grew. This film did none of that.
Thanks to all the commentary videos, I don't have to watch this adaptation of Cinderella. I didn't even know that Camilla's an actress. I don't know, the essence of Cinderella is gone- seems like Cinderella's kindness, charisma, and inner beauty doesn't shine in this retelling, which sucks. I have always considered Cindy as one of the strongest princess characters ever. Ironically, it seems like she's lost that inner strength.
This is Kay Cannon's second film after the hysterical Blockers. I really liked that comedy. Cannon only wrote the Pitch Perfect movies she didn't direct any of them. And, funnily enough, Cannon also created the Girlboss show that got canceled after one season on Netflix
“Everyone knows, mice are girls and rats are boys.” LoL. I didn’t even have a chance to think that with cartoons like The great mouse detective; The Rescuers; Robin Hood (with the fox); Aristocats; etc😅😅
I love how sophia crave the death for our entertainment... I'm so traumatized with this movie, like---why another remake of cinderella in first place??? There are thousands of them out there... wich will bring to my next point: if the movie wanted to be so revolucionary with a new (unecessary) reboot: why the people behind this casted camila cabello? because her body/phisical apparence is a standart in general... maddie baillio (who portraited one of the stepsisters) could have been the title charcter or they [producers] could have hired a disabled actress to be cinderella even... the possibilites were huge! I respect camila's work and i think she gave her best considering she ain't an actress, but as a disabled person I feel so frustered when they could represented me and many other girls/children inside of my community using a classic story like this... this is really sad
I agree with you on a lot of fronts about this movie. It's way too ham fisted, and they shove the message. I think they should've done some changes. 1. If we're going to have royalty changing rules at whim, then Cinderella never has to choose. The prince can have the king let her go and just send along a royal knight to go with her. 2. Cut James Corden's jokes or reign him in! His character wasn't funny, just crude in a stupid way that takes you out of the emotions of the scenes. 3. Make the Princess less of a joke! With feminism as your theme, ya shouldn't treat her being Queen as a joke for most of the movie. Play it more seriously, let her getting the crown have equal meaning. The way they did it comes across as it's a pity win, done out of convenience. 4. Do the Stepmother's backstory earlier. If ya still want that moment with Cinderella then have Cinderella not know, but let us the audience know before her. 5. Bring back the farmer dude, it seemed like he was having chemistry with one sister but they completely drop that. Also feminism doesn't mean girl boss, it means equality, having freedom to choose what ya want. So Having the sister, choose to be married to someone shows that aspect better. Because getting married to someone and being a homemaker isn't always a bad thing. Heck you can reverse it, and have him be a house husband. Because that breaks the old stereotype of men must be out working and women stay home. 6. Give the prince more ambition! Seriously him choosing to go with Cinderella is not as meaningful, compared to her, because he had no ambition to be king. He just wanted to hang with his bros. So give him more ambition so it's as much of a choice for him as her.
I will always stand by the fact that the ever after cinderella story with drew barrymore is the perfect cinderella and there is no way anyone can say anything else
8:26 BRUH, LMAO. Thanks for reviewing this. At least I can watch this movie while cringing with someone else. There's definitely a lot of inconsistencies with the dresses and dialogue... and there were some funny/questionable scenes. The only consolation I get from this is that I can finally cross this movie off of my list.
I chose the wrong time to take a sip of my drink 8:49 I almost choked laughing lmaooooo I love your humor and editing so much Edit: your reaction and editing at 15:45 are also magnificent hahaha
i’ve never liked how hollywood kept watering down cinderella’s character, the whole point isn’t that she wants to be famous or marry a prince to become a princess, it was so she had one night of freedom from ball away from her abusive family. but now she’s portrayed of a spoiled brat who has a mean stepmom, idk it just bothers me.
Same, I see what they were shooting for, but they lacked the nuance to achieve it.
This comment 100%."This is a feminist take on cinderella" oh i'm sorry, was the desire to escape from an abusive household and managing to maintain a kind heart in the face of adversity not feminist enough for you?
For an expansion on that last line I suggest The Take's "Cinderella" review. She was not a weak, fragile & spoiled girl - she wanted to escape abuse and took the only way out she could. The prince didn't "save her" she saved HERSELF.
That's a perfect sum up of the Cinderella character that I love. The 1952 animated Cinderella is still my favorite, even Disney and other companies f the original idea up.
Mini rant: A few years ago there was a Hallmark Ornament of Cinderella holding a soap bubble like in the sing sweet nightingale scene, problem is THERE WAS A SCENE OF HER AND THE PRINCE DANCING IN THE-MINI BUBBLE , not here reflection, like she was longing for him but the Sweet sing nightingale happened BEFORE she knew anything of the prince or ball. SHE DOENST CARE ABOUT GETTING MARRIED, SHE CRIED AND FLUNG HERSELF ON THE GARDEN BENCH IN THE MOVIE BECAUSE SHE WAS AT HER BREAKING POINT not because she wanted to meet the prince. 🙄
@@misssteak1290 God, you said is SO well.
What I thought was hilarious was Cinderella literally did no chores! The step sisters and step mom were shown constantly doing laundry. All Cinderella did was serve tea and shitty looking biscuits. If I were the stepmom, I’d be pissed also.
Omg, good point 😂😂😂
The stepmother actually made her daughters do all the job that cinderella did because she wants to show them what's life going to be like if they don't marry big.
@@giannegomed2209 Huh. She's actually teaching them well and not well at the same time.
I agree with you and i'm your 1,000 like
The whole time, Cinderella had the easy job.
I really hate that these "girlboss" storylines always involve a guy with no personality or aspirations in life who exists just to drop everything for the girl. Like, that's just the same bad trope in reverse. Ugh.
Unlike in Ever After, there we have a Prince who didn't want to be King, but after meeting and falling for "Cinderella" was inspired by her morals and world views to want to be a good King.
Exactly I hated the prince's characterization because it was so shallow. Especially giving him a "I choose Me" line. It felt meaningless cause what he wanted was to just drink and foxhunt with the boys. It had way less weight than Cinderella. Like if you want that phrase to have meaning, make sure when ya use it it always has weight behind it. If someone tries a feminist take, on a story like this, I hope they make the men competent. You don't have to make men dumb to make women smart. It's annoying, sexist, and frankly overdone.
You've all echoed my thoughts exactly; I'm so frustrated with the "stupid" male love interests, it does feel sexist and pretentious, like it insults our intelligence somehow. I'm also tired of the "I'm not like my dad" trope, which seems to be the only character arc they can give to the male lead; all the relationships feel so contrived and unbelievable.
Even Ella Enchanted did the romance better, and it wasn't perfect. At least Charmont wasn't instantly smitten with Ella; he did find her attitude refreshing, but their affection for each other was gradual and natural (albeit still in a short timeframe). They complimented each other; Ella in particular believing that Charmont could be a good king and make a positive impact for the kingdom, and he felt that was possible with her in his life. They actually make change happen, which wouldn't be possible if Ella made Charmont abdicate the throne for her.
Anastasia is even better; that film is proper female empowerment, with great chemistry between the leads and brilliant character development. Dimitri is charming (and most importantly, smart!), the relationship is equal and believable. At least we'll always have the classics.
@@dreamer24-79 Anastasia is forever a legendary movie.
@@khmerchef ever after is forever my top cinderella movie and it has been since i was little
The worst part of the whole movie is that Cinderella and Prince Charming DIDN'T HAVE CHEMISTRY a rock is more interesting than their relationship
That´s why I was hoping Cinderella to end with the princess or just not having a love interest in the end
@@vilwarin5635 THISS ^^^
i geniunely thought bc it was a modern intrepretation that the prince would be gay, would just be friends w cinderella and support her business 😭😭😭
@@iwakeupandboomimarat I also thought he was gay lol, and he would be her partner in business. Maybe bringing the money and high paying clients, while she did the desining and sewing. He had great marketing ideas, like dressing the princess in Ella's gown, why don't expand on that? They could create Ella&prince couture house
@@vilwarin5635 i would love to see an adaption that does that !! plus it could cover the stigma of being lgbt in such a traditional family with a large focus on heterosexual marriage, like a royal family
I unfortunately can't get the image of James Corden dressed as a mouse, running into traffic and pelvic thrusting at random innocent people as part of a marketing stunt. "Singing". Oh there was "singing" at these times too.
If random people ran at my car dressed in costumes and started a dance routine when I came to a stoplight , I'm pretty sure I'd freak the hell out and there would be an accident.
He committed a hate crime with his hip thrusting 😭😭😭
@@SophiaPhannn I'm sorry to all who saw it. You, me, the poor innocents in the cars.
@@SophiaPhannn HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT CAMILA LIKE THAT HER VOICE IS POPPY BUT THAT’S WHAT THIS CINDERELLA IS SUPPOSED TO BE SHE’S DIFFERENT AND THAT’S WHY SHE’S SPECIAL
@@superspiderfan2099 yo isn't Camilla racist? Imagine defending a racist😶
@@Mr.Murasakino Right? A racist that had to take classes to understand how NOT to be a racist. Couldn't be me.
I can't believe i missed this one: Idina Menzels name in Enchanted was Nancy Tremaine, a nod to the wicked stepmother.
Oooh you got me excited all over again for Enchanted 2 lol
@@skinni_the_P00hBear HAHAHAHA ME TOO
And the villain was named Narissa lol
Oh really? Fun fun!
She wasn't even bad in Enchanted though?
Barbie's "The Princess and The Pauper" did a better job of Ella and the prince's character arcs in this production. The pauper (Erika in the movie) also wanted to have an independent career (as a singer), the prince figure (King Dominick) liked Ericka even if she was disguised as a princess, and Erika actually gets to have a great career before marrying Dominick.
“Sometimes being free means choosing not to go, but to stay”
I love that movie 😭
I LOVE The Princess and the Pauper!
Erika really is the blueprint for the girlboss, and I'm here for it.
I loved this movie. 🎶I'm just like you, you're just like me🎶
Barbie movies had done more for feminism than whole Hollywood "woke & feminist" filmography
Big ol plot hole: the magic at the ball was supposed to make her unrecognizable to everyone but the prince. How did the queen recognize her without it?
That annoyed me so much. They made it a point to say and show it only worked for the prince. So it shouldn't have worked for the queen. They could've fixed it by saying only, the prince and the queen. Or have her find out it was Cinderella by having the prince tell her, "the dress my sister is wearing is by Ella's designs". I feel like they forget their own rule and just hoped no one would notice.
Imagine, instead of blabbering like an idiot towards the queen, Ella had been humble instead and said it wasn't *her* dress because she would have never been able to make this by hand (because it was, in fact, made by magic and she had said to the fab godmother that it would never work before the spell. So why wouldn't she go with it? She designed it, yes. But it wasn't *made* by her. Instead of the blatantly girl-boss characterization, this might have actually given her depth.).
Then later, the prince would turn out to be the one telling the foreign queen that Ella designed the dress, as proof that he supports her, because he was the only effing soul to be able to clarify that as he was the only exception to the spell.
Cherry on top of it all if he actually wanted the throne and was good at ruling. That would have made it so much more impactful. (though I did enjoy the sister character a lot more than anyone else on the movie. But they could have had a pretty good sibling rivalry too, with her being always on eye-level and yet still getting ignored because, in the end, she's just a girl). It was pretty clear from the beginning that he in fact did not really want to rule and that his sister is a better choice. So it was the "easy" solution for this movie to have him give up the throne and spend his days with Ella, which made it all the more obvious. No real conflict imo.
@@CazuhLynn Or they could fix it by changing her line by saying that the dress she is wearing is made from a girl in the market or something like that, it was a easy thing to do. And what you say it make the character 100 better than the ones in the movies, their romance would have way more meaning...
@@LOSTmyHOST Damn yes, that would also be a perfect solution. I didn't even realise that.
the panic in your face when you realized that you’ll be seeing human james corden💀
Can you tell me who James Corden is and why is he a bad person? I really dont know who he is😭
@@jackmartin36 thanks! LMAO ima check that video out
@@Nayy.yrocks rip to your eyeballs
no, but actually, everything you disliked about this movie is exactly what I hated about it too
*the costumes*: like you said, super historically ambiguous and very disjointed (and super hideous)
*the music*: jukebox musicals are laZY and the songs they chose were horrible and, for a cast full of singers, the music sucked (except for the queens Minnie and Idina just tryna get their bag)
*the dialogue*: truly terrible
*the cast*: bad
*the story*: trash, especially because in whatever ambiguous medieval time they live in, Cinderella could absolutely have had a dressmaking business with ZERO ridicule because dressmakers were usually low or middle class women... so...
all in all, -2/10, I won't forgive them for ripping off Ella Enchanted (the true Cinderella girl boss)
Yh I agree with t you do but for me its a 3/10 just cause its hard for me to hate things and I did like some of the songs
yess ella enchanted is so good
I agree on all points except about Ella Enchanted that movie is an absolute disgrace to the books they ripped out everything interesting and insightful. The movie's only redeeming value is the origami line.
I agree with everything besides the Ella Enchantment part, that movie was just as bad as this Cinderella.
@@Labinzel that is actually pretty fair, it isn’t like the book at all (which bothers me too), but I still did enjoy the movie a lot. I think that I just view the book and the movie as separate stories that share some similarities here and there.
They HAD to give James Corden too many moments didn't they?
We couldn't just have him turn human, that would have been more than enough, no, we had to get terrible scat solo, a toilet humor anatomy joke, "OMG WE CAN CLAP" and even a disturbing big head reverse instant transformation....bloody hell...
James Corden is the producer I think. Plus the movie was his idea. So yeah they had to give him this many scenes 😂😂
This was such a tired, boring movie with cringey dialogue, bad acting, JAMES CORDEN, questionable CGI… I honestly have no idea what they were thinking? This must have been a rushed program or SOMETHING. Just racking on well known actors or singers doesn’t make a good movie. :/ It literally doesn’t do anything inventive or new or entertaining with the adaptation it’s just a Wattpad book on the screen
i love how James Corden is capitalised and no preamble other than his name
@@jess9722 James Corden is his own trigger warning at this point.
Why is James Corden becoming synonymous with questionable CGI. The more movies this man does the more he grates on my nerves like boy just stop while you're ahead
the 'JAMES CORDEN' HAHAHAHAH poor guy
@@dancingdyonysis INCLUDING Doctor Who
The only Cinderella movies I prefer is the original animated Disney version, Rodger and Hemmerstien with Brandy and Whitney Houston and the Live action version with Lily James and that's it.
Rodger & Hammerstein’s Cinderella had the best music out of every Cinderella remake!!
Amen!
how can you forget Ella Enchanted with Anne Hathaway???? its def my top second after Brandy's Cinderella
Ever after of drew barrymore, still the best!
Girl same, those are my top 3 tbh.
I’m glad that people are realizing how condescending “girl boss” is. I support women in charge, but girl boss has felt backhanded to me. The characters barely had any depth. And like you said there’s nothing really different about this Cinderella. Sure she wants to do business in fashion, but why? Her designs don’t even stand out that much compared to the other people’s costumes. It make sense if everyone’s outfit was dull and lacked color. Showing her creative side more.
Why did they have to make this movie?! There have been MULTIPLE feminist and modern retellings of Cinderella that are much better than this pile of garbage.
Exactly! We already have Ever After, Ella Enchanted, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, Cinderella 2015, & Hallmark's A Cinderella Christmas (from 2016) to fill that quota for us; not to mention all five of them are *increasingly* much more enjoyable AND less-forced.
For real!! I’m tired of all these Cinderella remakes!! I’m glad we’re doing other Princess live action films. Like Tangled we’re getting that & will watch it. Beauty & the Beasts should have been better thou
Even in the cinderella with Hillary Duff she made it to college so... 😖
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose I did need Billy Porter as in Cinderella but... Not like this.
Ever After is one. Drew Barrymores character is bad ass there. She fights for freedom and she even saved herself in the end and doesnt need the prince to save her. Its a bonus that the prince fell in love with her and they got married. The prince fell in love with her personality, wit and bravery, aside from her beauty. So yeah, Ever After is the only Cinderella adaptation that I need.
I was a bit taken aback by how many British comedians are in this movie, then I saw James corden actually produced this movie so it’s all starting to come together
Yeah, it was like a Taskmaster reunion - such a shame because they are all actually really funny in real life.
@@littlemissmello fr, I was like damn there are some good ppl in here but they really couldn’t showcase their talent
Sophia: "They should've put Shawn Mendes as the prince."
Me: "You mean that generic-looking white boy isn't Shawn Mendes?"
I- Go off....I guess.
Lmao😭😭😭😭
Omg adding Shawn would have SAVED it
@@ChaoticallyCosmic agree
no ofc thats not shawn mendes thats literally bootleg ansel elgort
The step mom wasn't even evil in this. She genuinely wanted Cinderella to settle down and have a good marriage
Yes, she was pretty shitty when she spilled the ink on the dress, but overall she just seemed like a strict mother to me
What drink was it?
COKE
It was black ink 🙃
@@kakeface2009 oop yes sorry
She seemed like my mom lmao.....shut up I'm totally fine 😂
“You know Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.”
-Knuckles
I legitimately love this quote
“Just cause I’m a meathead doesn’t mean I’m not a feminist”
-Also Knuckles
Whenever these movies fully come out I just get more impressed by the people they hired to cut the trailers… cause somehow they managed to advertise it to look decent… or passable… like give that editor a raise please
All the TikTok ads actually made it look quite good and then the full film was an absolute nightmare to get through 😩
Once, just once, I want an adaptation where the dynamics are flipped, and Cinderella is the awkward out of touch one, and the stepsisters are the beautiful and smart ones.
And instead of destroying her dress, the stepmother actually lets her go, so she can completely humiliate herself in front of the prince with her clumsiness and tacky dress.
The prince is the complete opposite, but instead of making up for or overlooking her odd quirks, together they make the quirks work for them. Like if she trips while they're dancing, he turns it into an elaborate dance move. That kind of thing.
But the twist here is that instead of the night being magical, it's a nightmare because now she's starting to feel everything she was told growing up, about how embarrassing she is, and runs away when she finally can't take it anymore.
Instead of using the slipper, the prince requests she show up at the palace for a dance.
Why this is genius: all he girls that show up actually dance beautifully, including the stepsisters, so he KNOWS it's not her.
Instead of before the ball, the fairy godmother shows up when Cinderella's hiding herself away, to show her a different perspective of the ball. Specifically, what the prince actually thought of her, and how he saw her, klutz and all.
I really like this idea!
wait but this is a great idea
omg i would totally watch this!!
This fanfic I would read
I’m kind of over the awkward girl archetype. What I’d like to see is Prince Charming not be “Prince Charming”. Like in this one, I was just thinking, “What if James Acaster just stayed human and she ran off with the mouse man that supported her dreams and knows her instead of weird drunk fox hunting dude bro?
Ever After is indeed the best Cinderella adaptation out there, glad we agree.
I LOVE that movie!!! It deserves more praise imo
agreed
Agreed!!
Best Cinderella movie ever!
Nahh what about three hazelnuts for Cinderella with Libuše Šafránková? Best Cinderella movie ever
Queen Tatiana: I hate all of my clothes
Also queen Tatiana: has one of the best look in the whole ball
This feels like watching a children's play. Like, it's bad and it's kinda painful to sit through, but at least they seem like they're having fun I guess?
At least they’re having fun
Who cares about the audience just as long as the cast is having fun
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
@@J.P.Robles i mean it’s for children
@@lll.24601 AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
@@lll.24601 Kids have standards too. When I was in the third grade my school was treated to a musical that lampooned fairytales in the same vein as this film does with modern lingo, music, and so on. A house packed with nearly eight hundred small easily amused children and not one laugh was heard. Nor a mere chuckle. Nothing.
@@kaykutcher2103 Exactly, for real! I remember we had to do schoolplays and watch other's. We had to attend. I remember saying that: "If this would be an actual good play, they wouldn't have to force us to watch it. It's obvious nobody would care otherwise."
I really feel like this movie tried to be Ella Enchanted but failed. The only things I really liked about this movie were the costumes and the step family not being totally evil. Everything else was so unoriginal and/or cringey with a few good moments. I used to like the prince and as attractive as he is, I'm kinda annoyed by him now. 😂 I did also enjoy Minnie Driver's performance.
Yep, all the way down to the use of "Somebody to Love" & the casting of Minnie Driver. C'mon Kay Cannon that movie is underrated enough as it is, you didn't *have* to practically steal from it! 🙄
You liked the costumes? The costumes
@@BabyGirlTiny yeah. I thought they were pretty. Especially the gowns at the ball.
@@BeeKee404 They were quinceañera dresses.
Ella Enchanted is sooooooooo much supervisor.
My fav Cinderella movies are Ever After, Disney Cinderella and Cinderella a Twist in Time :3
CINDERELLA A TWIST IN TIME IS SOOOO GOOD LOL
Ever after is a favorite of mine too!!!
the live action remake from like 2015 i think was really good too
Ever After is so underrated but so good.
@@yukijames1321 Agreed. It was one of my faves because the singing was superior.
Second comment: the classic Cinderella story isn't about love saving the day, imo. I think it's more about staying kind, patient and goodhearted despite abuse and ingratitude. Classic iterations of Cinderella portray her as wanting to go to the ball to escape her daily, unforgiving routine. Meeting the prince wasn't on her to-do list. 😃
The prince is such a Chad that I really couldn't care less about him
BY the way, along with my disdain for Corden in my previous comment, I have an allowance to complain because he used to be in the same acting group as one of my sisters.
He was a dick to her, poking fun at her and even thought he was hot shit even then....sorry about the language. I simply cannot fathom how HE of all people got the keys to stardom when people like my sister could've/can decimate him in every artistic aspect.
White male privilege?
"women can't own shops"
*2 mins later*
"trying to correct an unjust system"
make it make sense? 💀
15:45 Lord, they really thought they could use the "learning how male anatomy uses the bathroom" joke from Jumanjii: Welcome to the Jungle (a movie where that was actually funny) on the human mice trio but failed MISERABLY. 😬
It's so fucking weird here. Do the writers think mice don't have dicks? And did nobody correct them???
Ella enchanted, a Cinderella story with Hilary duff, ever after, and Cinderella starring brandy and Whitney are only top tier live action Cinderella movies
The only Cinderella movies I care about ^
You're missing "The Slipper and the Rose" (another musical version which actually gave the prince some dimension, too). I also enjoyed the second Rogers & Hammerstein Cinderella (Leslie Ann Warren as Cinderella; Stuart Damon as the Prince)--I only saw the real original once (Julie Andrews as Cinderella).
The god-parent's magic, outfit and butterfly transformation was what I expected from the live Netflix Winx honestly
i've seen the new cinderella movie and when i tell you it's a mess, i was cringing the entire time. the only bearable parts of the movie were idina menzel and billy porter's performances.
The transformation from monarch butterfly to Billy Porter in a gorgeous gold-orange dress was the best scene in the whole movie. Not gonna lie, having the FG first appear as a (seemingly-ugly) caterpillar that (Cinder)Ella rescues was a cool way to have them meet. 🦋
Edit: The FG mocking the mice the same way they mocked them was also a nice touch. (Using 'them' because FG is meant to be genderless in this film).
This movie gained traction just from Billy and Idina's presence. Let's be honest lol
honestly i love jukebox musicals and the only song i can stand is whatta man/seven nation army, and even then it feels like it has some major tempo issues
@@Lill2895 Legit the only reason I watched this movie was for Billy Porter
Who told them we wanted this? I have to go watch Brandy’s and Whitney’s version to erase what I just saw.
im so sorry to the gentleman playing the prince but anne hathaway did the superior cover of *somebody to love*
no one and I mean no one will ever do a queen’s *somebody to love* as graceful, iconic and magical as she did
I wonder why they didn’t emphasise the IT’S A LATINA CINDERELLA A BIG DEAL SINCE BRANDY
Like all the other princess had representation international dresses but Camilla’s character dresses “plain”
R if their picking pop songs then why not sing a pop/latin song like the ones she famous for.
Right Only one song is by a Hispanic artist. Like if you want that credit, Actually give good representation! They made a Latina Cinderella so bland. Especially in comparison to the other women at the ball repping their culture. Like Cinderella who?
I wish they would have waited to make the “first” Latina Cinderella (technically Selena Gomez played in the Cinderella Story in 2008). I wish the industry would have given a talented UNKNOWN Latina a role as Cinderella with a stunning (non-pop) voice and far superior script than what was given here. But as time has already shown, there will be future opportunities.
@@lee-tl8lt Oh, really? Thank you for informing me. : )
THISSSSSSS
That musician on 15:23.
As a cellist, I take that atrocious scene PERSONALLY!
03:11
I just want to say as someone with a cane, no, no they don't. Also...ew that face. I am going with "wow he is a really good actor to be able to cause me to twitch involuntarily just with his look".
Ever After still remains the best rendition of the classis fairy tale!
for real! seeing that film when it was originally released changed my life, and i was just 6 years old at the time. i honestly credit drew's speech about utopia as the beginnings of my existence as a leftist (ain't it sad that it's been literally half a millennia since utopia was written and very little has changed regarding capitalism and classism?? love that for us haHa!!!) and the scene where she throws the prince over her shoulder is still everything.
also HER DRESS AT THE BALL?? y'all need to go and look at close up pics because it's STUNNING!
i still can't listen to "put your arms around me" by texas without weeping like a baby. they should've just stopped making cinderella adaptations after the one two punch of 1997 and 1998.
I have a love hate relationship with the dress she wears to the ball.
The dress itself is beautiful, of course it is, but it's not what we've come to expect from Cinderellas ballgown.
She's supposed to be a dress designer in this one, and she comes up with THAT?
Also a little counterintuitive to realize that she is a designer and yet goes to the ball in a gown she didn't design. Like why?
If the puke emoji was summarized without the use of words you get that atrocity and the dress she was wearing
@@janeryan2709 Unfortunately, my little sister wanted me to watch this flaming pile of garbage with her and billy porter actually used one of her designs and just made it real
@@janeryan2709 Well, she did design it, she just didn't make it.
The dress looks good in theory, on paper, but it's not made for moving around, at all.
i'll never understand why james corden is ALWAYS there
Hollywood’s way of flicking our forehead
Every day I pray that we'll soon be free from the shackles of James Corden.
fun fact: every second youre not running, james corden gets closer
I remember when he was just that guy on doctor who
That’s why the stepmother didn’t let her go to the ball even though she was okay with Cinderella marrrying the prince
This feels like the kind of movie that should have come out in 1998. Just saying 'ACK-tually, women are just as good as men!' over and over, and expecting you to be impressed at how progressive it is each time.
Also I didn't realise how many British stand-ups were in it, and it's very weird.
Nah, in terms of relevance and progressivism, this movie was inoffensive and not bad. In terms of the dialogues, music, costumes, and literally everything else, this movie is super cringe.
And the funny thing is, movies like this are not even progressive. The "girlboss" concept isn't very progressive. It just wants women to also participate in the same shitty systems that men do, which isn't progress.
@@hope3290 Hello. I've been trying to understand what this girlboss concept is about. Well, I'll probably look it up later. I also want to understand how it comes into this generic movie, though. I respect your opinion and don't think I have it all figured out!
Right now to me, all Cinderella did in this was want to be a designer more than marrying the prince she saw twice. I can't say the prince dropped everything for her, because he didn't feel like being the king in the first place and only truly wanted to after thinking it could lead to her being his wife. He'll probably still be rich and maybe even find something he wants to do.
Also, I don't know how the movie specifically fits into wanting women to participate in the same crappy systems men do (the following is most likely a misunderstanding by me). Should women only participate in the better systems? This doesn't seem like equality. Maybe the issue was that she wasn't making it better for everyone regardless of gender? But this doesn't seem to be what you're saying.
If the actual point is for women to be able to create their own systems or something, then Cinderella wanted to go work under a queen doing what she always wanted to do, and the princess is preparing to be queen (she won't be able to do whatever she feels she needs to at first, but of course hurdles are still expected). Cinderella did want to show women all around the world that she could follow her dreams, but that's cheesy at worst.
The Cinderella in this movie just doesn't seem to have enough going for her in my opinion to think that her attitude related to her "woman success" (or whatever the girlboss term is about) is out there. She just seems... normal.
Ah, wait. All I saw of the movie was from this review. Oops.
@@janeryan2709 I think the ModernGurlz review did a really good job pointing out just how shallow and pandery this movie’s progressivism is. Like… really hypocritical and shallow and just nonsensical.
Ella Enchanted was another take on the Cinderella story that also took heavy historical liberties, like the stepsisters having boyband posters of the prince and the characters going to high school. The difference here is that Ella wasn’t that serious a movie; it was just a fun, goofy comedy for kids and it embraced it’s wacky style to go along with it’s surprisingly unique plot.
It also focused on Ella's struggles and her trying to regain her free will. Here, it never felt like Cinderella was ever in any real danger or abuse since she never really is seen cleaning or doing household chores and given that she has enough time to make multiple dresses by hand shows that she must have a lot of time on her hands since I sew and it takes hours to make a single dress.
ppl literally weren't hating on her because she's a woman, it really was because the dresses she made were fugly smh. like, all her products were 90% tulle. girly i-
I appreciate the sacrifice you've made to let us know that we can skip watching that movie... all while giving us a much more entertaining video ❤️
10:08 brave of this movie to try and tackle the contemporary and relevant feminist issue of whether women should be allowed to own shops
I also wish that we, as a culture, explored Cinderella as an abuse story a bit more. She was abused, neglected and put down by her stepmother and stepsisters from a very young age. The thought that victims of abuse need to somehow "safe themselves" is offensive to me. My grandmother was pretty much Cinderella growing up (eerily similar story) and my grandfather married her and took her away from that home life. Why should she be a "girl boss" or whatever? The fact that my grandmother, and Cinderella too, managed to continue to be a positive influence on other people's lives and broke that cycle of abuse, that's more than admirable enough. Stop blaming victims for not being able to safe themselves.
(in a tangent to that, well meaning but often misplaced efforts of -especially corporate- feminism, usually confuse celebrating femininity with making the feminine more (traditionally) masculine. Those can and should exist too of course and especially in the early days of feminism, they were necessary, but why shouldn't there be more of a focus on the feminine too? Rather than women adjusting their attitude to "A Man's World TM", us changing the world to suit us more)
THIS!!! 👏👏👏
I 100% agree. Also I’m glad your grandma got out of that situation
All I can say is great review! And to this movie I bid it a goodbye.
I cannot believe a youtuber is being really honest about their feelings. I've just stumbled onto this account and I find it refreshing that someone is playing with danger by being open about what they really feel watching movies.
17:05 "conundrum" could be the word you're looking for
A fantastic Cinderella adaptation that I’ve loved since I was little is The Slipper and the Rose. It was made in the 70s and luckily the whole thing is on TH-cam! It’s a proper musical with original songs, beautiful cinematography, and a creative take on both the overall storyline and the fairy godmother (who travels around helping other fairytale characters). There’s no jarring dialogue and the costumes are 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 The stepmother is appropriately cruel and - unlike this movie - you really feel how Cinderella’s life became a desolate one after her parents died. There’s also something extra magical about the use of practical effects and clever camera tricks to do the transformations, given the lack of cgi 🥰
Oh! And another wonderful 1970s adaptation is Tři oříšky pro Popelku, or Three Wishes/Nuts for Cinderella. It’s a Czech movie that’s also fully uploaded onto TH-cam with English subs. This one isn’t a musical, and instead of going the fairy godmother route it uses the fairytale version where Cinderella gets three acorns, each of which represents a wish for her to use in a different situation. The actress’s portrayal of the character is so cute and sassy (not in a cringey way) and her dress for the ball is GORGEOUS - what I love about that scene in particular is that because of the lack of any sort of spell to hide her identity, she instead wears a veil in order to prevent people from recognising her.
aaahhh I LOVE Tři oříšky pro Popelku, THE Cinderella story of my childhood. So happy to see it mentioned! Cinderella is such a character there. And the Prince has really fun personality too. Not to mention small but hilarious scenes of the King and Queen's banter
@@Manka__Kasha Omg yes!! The dynamic between the Prince and his two friends was great. Plus I love the King and Queen's banter because they obviously love each other! In other versions there's either no Queen at all (dead) or their relationship seems to be completely non-existent. I think the ending is so cute as well when they're busy riding off into the distance while his teacher shouts at him for missing his lessons - it really pushes home that they're just a couple of teens. It's a complete contrast to other versions where the Prince and Cinderella are grown adults and it doesn't REALLY make sense that the Prince hasn't been married to anyone yet.
The greatest activist Cinderella will always be Drew Barrymore in “Ever After: A Cinderella Story” imo. Rewatching it here I noticed they also both get sold off to creepy men. I did actually like her ballgown in this though, especially the sleeves and bodice. But deadass WHY did they keep her hair in that braid???
As a brit/ someones who went to Buckingham palace I KNOW there would have been more people on the statue and it would be visibly covered in poo
Imagine how good the story could have been if it was just focused on Gwen, Cinderella and the StepMother? Like, a Cinderella that doesn't care about the ball or the Prince and wants to run a fashion bussiness? That would've been son cool!
Not to mention Gwen trying to prove that she can make a better King than her brother, and the StepMother getting over the Death of another Husband and going back to piano PLEASE CAN'T WE HAVE THAT INSTEAD OF JAMES CORDEN?! 😭
If this was supposed to be the middle ages, or ... whatever ages... then after the princess became the queen, she would eventually have to kill her brother and Cinderella since abdicated or not, he still was the rightful heir to the throne. And him being alive meant instability, plots and unrest.
So the way they ended the movie - the prince would either die by his sister's supporters hands or... he would be taken as hostage by that queen Tatjana who would probably want something from the prince's family. I mean she admitted killing a king, so kidnapping a neighboring kingdom's prince, that's easy.
I always hate when movies do the whole "Oh I don't need this cane it's just makes me look cool" because that makes it harder for those of us who actually need them. Not to mention asking someone about their mobility aid in general is just plain rude and disrespectful. I'm 24 and need a cane to get around and so many people who I don't even know will ask about it or think I don't really need it and movies doing that and saying "yeah this character doesn't need it they're faking" do the opposite of help
Imagine playing Cinderella's screech at 13:05 on repeat for an hour. Perfect torture idea.
here is a comprehensive list of everything I liked about this movie:
that is all
Sounds just like my list of he’s all that
Lmfao
Yeah, me too I loved that!!
Omg it’s invisible
I love it
You know what would be an interesting Cinderella adaptation? If they did live-action version of its source material. The true source material. Supposedly the premise of Cinderella actually originated in China. There is an old animated version that you can find on TH-cam.
it would be VERY hard to watch, but in a gritty, historical way
Actually, it originated from Egypt about a Greek slave.
Your face when they said “poppin” at 9:32 was TOO FUNNY! Love watching your reactions😁😁
The original Disney film, as well as Roger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Julie Andrews, are my favorite versions.
8:17 bestie what is that get down right now before they arrest you??? I totally get why the step-mother was afraid that Cinderella was gonna embarrass her 🧍♀️
the fact that you knew literally every song and you just sung along like you weren’t even being recorded is so wholesome for absolutely no reason
I find it funny that in an attempt to make Cinderella more "inclusive" and "feminist", she just comes off as a whiny brat who just gets a fairy show up and help her for no reason. At least we can believe the Disney animated one was a nice person. Also:
"'Your Highness' was the man who's blood I spilled to take this crown."
Okay, and? That would still make you "Your Highness", so idk what the point of that line was except to be cringy.
Here's another one: Cinderella's whose dynamic with her step family is supposed to be that they make her do everything around the house, but we see the step family THEMSELVES doing work and hanging clothes, and seem to allow her to take all the time she wants to make her dresses.
Ever After is my favorite Cinderella movie
the taste is just way too high with this one, i love it!
oof thanks for biting the bullet and watching this one girlie. im legit scared theyll make a sequel because of how many people watched it
You’ll jinx the possibility of that ever happening
So by all means keep on saying it
...what do the writers think mice anatomy consists of? Their bodies also have a "front tail" as they put it.
When I saw that the mice were 3 B list british comedians I knew the director was a brit and I knew it was gonna suck. Plus that toothy blonde who wanted to marry her is also a B list british comedian. They are all far less annoying than James Corden though, I don't know anybody who likes him so I am astounded at how much work he gets.
The thing I hate the most is that they act like women didn't have tailoring and dress shops back then, Cinderella could've literally just got a job at a dress shop with all the free time she had in this movie
shes like "I dont want to be queen, I want to be a shopkeeper!"
Im like "why cant you be both? Im sure queens have deep pockets, enough to finance a shop."
Thank you for shouting out Rodgers and Hammerstein! Brandi was so sweet and lovely in her role. And the costumes/references were not historically accurate, but they went well together and actually made sense in that story universe.
It’s so jarring to listen to everyone else singing Broadway style and then Camilla comes in with her pop style voice that has weird pronunciation and way too many vocal runs. It’s really difficult to listen to when in contrast with everyone else’s stable belting. It doesn’t fit the time period or setting and totally ruins any emotional investment.
Honestly, if one of these kind of films could just give us a positive male character FOR ONCE. I-
I love your unimpressed reaction to this cause I was caught laughing this whole time. Bro 9:50 killed me
The inevitable fanfics that arise in response to the mean stepmother and the weird spanking line will be more interesting than the movie
My top three cinderella adaptions for story and costumes will always be:
1. Lily James
2: Whitney Houston’s
3: Ever after
Why? They focused on actual plot and character development. The singers (for the musical adaptations) were talented and their talents were utilized.
The princes were ones we were rooting for because he listened to Cinderella and respected her viewpoints. They kind of were the Mr. Darcy’s of the Cinderella world. They were flawed men who eventually redeemed their mistakes and earned the women’s affections. They grew.
This film did none of that.
My favorite Cinderella movies is Cinderella (2015) and Brandy's Cinderella like those two will always be iconic
Ella Enchanted and A Cinderella Story were by far the best adaptions of the story, no question
Why does the guy Cinderella's arranged to marry look like a squirrel
Thanks to all the commentary videos, I don't have to watch this adaptation of Cinderella. I didn't even know that Camilla's an actress. I don't know, the essence of Cinderella is gone- seems like Cinderella's kindness, charisma, and inner beauty doesn't shine in this retelling, which sucks. I have always considered Cindy as one of the strongest princess characters ever. Ironically, it seems like she's lost that inner strength.
This is Kay Cannon's second film after the hysterical Blockers. I really liked that comedy. Cannon only wrote the Pitch Perfect movies she didn't direct any of them. And, funnily enough, Cannon also created the Girlboss show that got canceled after one season on Netflix
This is the kind of movie that would play in a children’s hospital waiting room at half volume
“Everyone knows, mice are girls and rats are boys.” LoL. I didn’t even have a chance to think that with cartoons like The great mouse detective; The Rescuers; Robin Hood (with the fox); Aristocats; etc😅😅
I love how sophia crave the death for our entertainment... I'm so traumatized with this movie, like---why another remake of cinderella in first place??? There are thousands of them out there... wich will bring to my next point: if the movie wanted to be so revolucionary with a new (unecessary) reboot: why the people behind this casted camila cabello? because her body/phisical apparence is a standart in general... maddie baillio (who portraited one of the stepsisters) could have been the title charcter or they [producers] could have hired a disabled actress to be cinderella even... the possibilites were huge! I respect camila's work and i think she gave her best considering she ain't an actress, but as a disabled person I feel so frustered when they could represented me and many other girls/children inside of my community using a classic story like this... this is really sad
The mice look like their out of an old Barbie movie and I absolutely lost it at 8:28
Oh my god did he just nut? 🤣🤣
I agree with you on a lot of fronts about this movie. It's way too ham fisted, and they shove the message. I think they should've done some changes.
1. If we're going to have royalty changing rules at whim, then Cinderella never has to choose. The prince can have the king let her go and just send along a royal knight to go with her.
2. Cut James Corden's jokes or reign him in! His character wasn't funny, just crude in a stupid way that takes you out of the emotions of the scenes.
3. Make the Princess less of a joke! With feminism as your theme, ya shouldn't treat her being Queen as a joke for most of the movie. Play it more seriously, let her getting the crown have equal meaning. The way they did it comes across as it's a pity win, done out of convenience.
4. Do the Stepmother's backstory earlier. If ya still want that moment with Cinderella then have Cinderella not know, but let us the audience know before her.
5. Bring back the farmer dude, it seemed like he was having chemistry with one sister but they completely drop that. Also feminism doesn't mean girl boss, it means equality, having freedom to choose what ya want. So Having the sister, choose to be married to someone shows that aspect better. Because getting married to someone and being a homemaker isn't always a bad thing. Heck you can reverse it, and have him be a house husband. Because that breaks the old stereotype of men must be out working and women stay home.
6. Give the prince more ambition! Seriously him choosing to go with Cinderella is not as meaningful, compared to her, because he had no ambition to be king. He just wanted to hang with his bros. So give him more ambition so it's as much of a choice for him as her.
everything feels like a music video that some viral influencer just randomly drop while they're famous
If Cinderella is a real person, I think she will be pissed too with the portrayal of her in this movie. Smh
“She cray”
Me: **feels my soul die** This is gonna be dated in few years
I will always stand by the fact that the ever after cinderella story with drew barrymore is the perfect cinderella and there is no way anyone can say anything else
"hello fellow children, we have read your tweets and know exactly what the Hip and Relevant Teens say""
The boredome she felt half way through this film is very accurate to how it feels to watch this film it is insufferable
LMAO your face whenever James cordon appeared sldfjfdkjdfj ALSO UR WEARING OUR MOTHER DAUGHTER EARRINGS 🥺😩 I enjoyed watching your reaction bby
I LOVE YOU, MY DAUGHTER
I wasn't going to watch this and I'm glad I didn't. Now I get to watch Sophia suffer.
My mother, who likes Hallmark unironically, and barely knows how to use her smart tv, called me to report on how bad this was
4:51 Legit though Sophia just start calling your viewers your "merry bros." 😆✨
8:26 BRUH, LMAO. Thanks for reviewing this. At least I can watch this movie while cringing with someone else. There's definitely a lot of inconsistencies with the dresses and dialogue... and there were some funny/questionable scenes. The only consolation I get from this is that I can finally cross this movie off of my list.
My question abt the amount of Cinderella movies is me everytime another one comes out
I chose the wrong time to take a sip of my drink 8:49 I almost choked laughing lmaooooo
I love your humor and editing so much
Edit: your reaction and editing at 15:45 are also magnificent hahaha