Amanda Morse

I wanted so much to love this movie because of Idina, but well...it wasn't perfect by any means. I gave it four stars because if you want a movie that is happy, fun, and diverse, with very catchy musical numbers in-between, well then this is exactly that. However, there is very little else to really catch and hold you. For the most part, I loved the casting, and I loved the new take on the whole Cinderella tale, and the ending of this movie is strangely satisfying. The rest is just...ugh. Inconsistent lip-syncing a good portion of the time with character progressions that don't make sense, and an evil step-mother who's kind of evil? You never quite figure that one out. Pierce Brosnan has aged pretty well. The mice were hilarious. The costumes were pretty...if a bit more modern than the current era, but whatever. The prince is also pretty, almost too-pretty in a way and his character starts off as incredibly unlikable...buut, I don't know, they make that relationship work somehow. Overall an upbeat take on the Cinderella classic, but like a princess who doesn't just want to settle, nothing quite decides what it wants to be in this tale...including the music. My niece, who is eleven, will like this Cinderella but I think it might be geared more towards her generation. Maybe I'm too millennial. I might have to go watch the Brandy/Whitney Houston Cinderella version though, to cleanse myself of whatever it was that I just watched.