Cinderella
Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!
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- Cast:
- Ilene Woods , Eleanor Audley , Verna Felton , Claire Du Brey , Rhoda Williams , James MacDonald , Helene Stanley
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I wanted to but couldn't!
Best movie of this year hands down!
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
One of the best Disney classics of fairy tales I've ever seen like Peter Pan and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Although not my favorite Disney heroine, Cinderella is one of the greatest. Kingdom Hearts knew what they were doing when they made her one of The 7 Princesses of Light. And I absolutely LOVE the mice. I can't get the work song out of my head. Jimmy MacDonald was FANTASTIC as Jaq and Gus. And the scene with the king and the Grand Duke has be in stitches of laughter every time.All in all, I give the first of this trilogy a 10/10.
Overall this movie is kinda dumb. Even though I was really bored when I watched this as a child, I'm assuming that it can only be enjoyed by children? I have no clue. This is a really dumb movie with some decent animation. I don't really see why so many people like it, but whatever.
Let's be clear: a lot of Disney movies are rather oriented for girls: royal romance, love songs, dance and dresses, we boys are not really into that, whatever the feminist and gender extremists would like! If you add the crazy king father, the ugly bad characters (why this link?), the sadistic cat and helpful dog (why this discrimination), the abusive stepmother and stupid henchman, you find finally a universe in which I don't feel happy, in which family love is nonexistent and that's a bit hard!At last, we have those chipmunks-like mice that bring fun and lightness! For me, they are essential to this movie because without them, it would have been simply unwatchable. It's not the speedy, delirious, crazy and funny Sylvester & Tweety but some moments makes me laugh! The other thing i notice is that for that date, this animation was showing the future of the live movies: Colored, powerful visuals and horizon lines, stunning effects, only those things was first delivered then by Disney and it would take 10 years before the gap would be shorten by true movies!If Snow White can appeal to every one, this Cinderella is above all a dream for girls and a honest time for boys!
A Walt Disney classic that – while not as groundbreaking or charming as the company's first full-featured animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) – can still enchant and entertain, especially young (and still young at heart) girls. The movie features an Academy Award nominated Score (and Sound) including "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", which also received an Oscar nomination, "So This Is Love", "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes", and the title song, which in part is sung by Marni Nixon. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske, the story was adapted by Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Ted Sears, Winston Hibler, Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Kenneth Anderson, and Joe Rinaldi from the original classic by Charles Perrault. The film was originally distributed by RKO Pictures.After the early death of her loving father, Cinderella (voiced by Ilene Woods) is made to work as a maid and cook for her stepmother Lady Tremaine (Eleanor Audley) and two stepsisters Drizella (Rhoda Williams) and Anastasia (Lucille Bliss), all three of whom are jealous of her charm and beauty. Having been happily raised by her widowed father, who married widow Tremaine out of concern that his daughter needed a mother, Cinderella continues to keep an optimistic outlook and perform her daily duties cheerfully despite her circumstances, befriending the estate's animals: mice Jaq and Gus, dog Bruno (all voiced by James Macdonald), horse Major and various bluebirds (Marion Darlington). The Tremaine's aptly named cat Lucifer (June Foray) terrorizes the mice and causes Cinderella extra work every chance he gets.Meanwhile the King (Luis Van Rooten), who wants grandchildren, decides to welcome home his son Prince Charming (William Phipps; Mike Douglas, singing) with a Royal Ball to which he'll invite all the comely maidens, hoping one will capture his son's heart. After grudgingly giving Cinderella permission to attend, Tremaine and her daughters all but ruin her chances to impress, forcing her to do extra chores then ripping her (animal assembled) dress and beads apart just as it's time to go. This act of cruelty and mean- spiritedness finally causes Cinderella to burst into tears and run into the garden, frustrated that she'll miss the dance and perhaps the only opportunity to escape her situation.At this point, Cinderella is visited by her Fairy Godmother (Verna Felton), who magically transforms various items and animals into the coach, driver, footman and horses she needs to attend the Ball; she is then adorned in a sparkling new dress complete with glass slippers. Her Fairy Godmother then warns her that "on the stroke of midnight" the spell will be broken (and everything will return to as it was). Of course, this is more than Cinderella could ever have hoped for, and she proceeds to the Ball where she and Prince Charming share a dance, "falling in love" just as the clock begins to toll midnight. She dashes from the Ball to her carriage which rushes homeward before turning back into a pumpkin. However, she'd left behind one slipper.The King decrees that the owner of the glass slipper must be found, and orders his Grand Duke to visit every house in the kingdom to find her. Seeing how utterly happy her stepdaughter is behaving, Lady Tremaine correctly surmises the truth and has Cinderella locked her attic bedroom while the Grand Duke is visiting their estate. While the Grand Duke tries in vain to force the slipper on Drizella's and Anastasia's big feet, the animals conspire to help their friend, outsmarting and outmaneuvering Lady Tremaine and Lucifer to give Cinderella a chance to try on the slipper. When Tremaine trips the footman, the slipper shatters on the floor, but Cinderella then produces its mate. After it is revealed that "the shoe fits" her perfectly, Cinderella is whisked away to the castle where she and the Prince live happily ever after.