Cinderella Out Today, 10-4

innerSpaceman · 10-04-2005, 01:52 PM

Meh, Cinderella's never been one of my faves. The intercutting between the almost completely separate mice story and that of Cinderella just bugs me. In fact, a friend of mine who just saw it for the first time at the El Cap remarked "It's all about the mice, and hardly about Cinderella at all."

Artistically, there's nothing stand-out about it - - though it's hardly ugly to behold.

More important - - for me, I find it vital that an animated film have a good reason to be animated ... as opposed to live action. There's a reason that Cinderella has been done so often in live action, and so often better than the Disney version - - not much about it cannot be portrayed without effects. The scene where the fairy godmother transforms Cinderella and various other things is the single exception - - and I think it is the best scene in the Disney film. Other than that, the only reason this particular version needs to be animated is because it's mostly about the mice.

Meh.

(Oh, but my friend Autumn worked on the restoration. I hope you like it.)

10-04-2005, 01:52 PM	#7
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Meh, Cinderella's never been one of my faves. The intercutting between the almost completely separate mice story and that of Cinderella just bugs me. In fact, a friend of mine who just saw it for the first time at the El Cap remarked "It's all about the mice, and hardly about Cinderella at all." Artistically, there's nothing stand-out about it - - though it's hardly ugly to behold. More important - - for me, I find it vital that an animated film have a good reason to be animated ... as opposed to live action. There's a reason that Cinderella has been done so often in live action, and so often better than the Disney version - - not much about it cannot be portrayed without effects. The scene where the fairy godmother transforms Cinderella and various other things is the single exception - - and I think it is the best scene in the Disney film. Other than that, the only reason this particular version needs to be animated is because it's mostly about the mice. Meh. (Oh, but my friend Autumn worked on the restoration. I hope you like it.)
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