Pretty people, enchanting music, the promise of a moving tale, but a woke waste of time!
Good value? it is affordable. Entertaining? They have taken an established tale of morality, of the elements of good coming together, in teamwork, to overcome obstacles and to win out over oppressive activities, and have reduced it to a series of SNL skits, promoting a progressive narrative, peopled w woke characters, whose own actions are as subversive as the people they want to overthrow, progressive v establishment, making this tale of a contest of values a meaningless exercise. Their A is no better than the B.
Engaging characters? Camila Cabela is enchanting as Cinderella, she has a beautiful voice, and she owns every scene she is in. The costumes are bright, the photography is sharp and clear, the music is moving but often misplaced, and the choreography is reduced to a punchline to accent the DEI narrative that this tale has been reduced to.
Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver are wasted here as their scenes are reduced to pieces of a woke skit, holding their natural talent in check, keeping the woke narrative first and reducing the drama and emotions of their scenes to a fading afterthought. The woke characters continue, the Step mother and the step sisters are merely self-absorbed caricatures, and Billy Porter as a drag "Fairy" Godmother? Really?
Altogether, a failed exercise in satire. So much talent, wasted, in an over-hyped skit trying to pass as a message-bearing vehicle. They are trying to pass this tale off as a vehicle w a woke moral, but this tale lacks morality. Pretty people, enchanting music, the promise of a moving tale, but a woke waste of time!
For an enchanting Cinderella tale, arguably the best production ever, look for the 1965 version w Lesley Ann Warren. Her Cinderella will stay w you for days. You won't be disappointed.
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