Cinderella

Literally so many things wrong with this movie it would take an essay.

Cannot rate it lower.

Tried and failed miserably. In my teenage daughter's words: "this movie is cringy!"

This is a modern reimagining is Cinderella, with more than a touch of diversity and politically correctness. I think the modern update is a bit too much, and they try too hard to make it relevant to the modern day. The end result is a film that doesn't appeal to anyone.

In summary my wife and I, grandparents, enjoyed this musical movie as light entertainment. It uses a lot of mostly contemporary songs that are actually sung by the cast. Most singing is pretty good, some of it not so much, but it does fine for this type of movie. It is mostly funny, at times absurd, with elaborate production numbers.

The biggest divergence is both the prince and Ella are, in different ways, reluctant to accept the traditional roles. He isn't sure he really wants to follow his father as King, she isn't sure she wants to be a wife of a King, maybe being a dress designer would be more fulfilling.

Right after release on Amazon streaming this movie has received lots of unjustified, very negative reviews. It isn't a bad movie, in fact it is very well made and interesting for any viewer in the right frame of mind. It isn't my type of movie, I'll probably not re-watch it, but that doesn't make it a bad movie. A rating of 5 or 6 is probably just about right.

I don't stand the hate. I enjoyed this movie. Sure it was kinda cringe. But I thought it was funny in parts, and it had me laughing. The acting was fine... the love story was cute... especially the scene where they sang Ed Sheeran's song "Perfect"!

This movie isn't as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Most are just cranky about James Cordan, they can't help but cry about it haha.

I wasn't expecting a masterpiece. This is a cute teen movie, and that's all.