One Sentence: Watch the Disney animated version instead.
Rated: PG
Nudity: None
After Credits: None
The difference between Alice In Wonderland and Cinderella is that there is so much in Alice In Wonderland, so you can get away with it being a live action movie. Cinderella has almost no story. We all know it and unless you change a lot or add a lot there is not enough there to carry a full movie. Even the animated movie feels a little weak, but they have the advantages of being made in 1950 and being a cartoon, so it can get away with a little bit less plot.
This 2015 version feels cold, empty, and boring. It is almost literally the Animated movie version with just a few more characters, a little less magic and Cate Blanchett being amazing. Without her being an amazing evil stepmother, this movie would of been complete garbage. It is beautiful, Disney brought together their normal flare for visually amazing things. However that was not enough to retell the story of a girl who lives with her stepmother, goes to a ball, and marries a prince.
This was really the fault of whoever thought that this movie should of even been live action. Jungle Book, yes. Beauty and the Beast, sure. Peter Pan, been done many times. These work because there is a lot to tell. Cinderella felt like it had to fill time just to make it to the end of the movie, and the story already isn’t very good. So you combine all of that together and this movie just was doomed to fail before it was ever made.
So you do not have to rush out by the last strike of 12 to catch Cinderella in the theater. There is nothing here for you to have to pay the big bucks for. I wouldn’t even really rent it. You have seen it all before in one of the many other better versions of Cinderella out there.
