Cinderella

I have loved this movie since I was about five. In fact, this is how I characterize Matthew Broderick, since this was the first role I ever saw him perform. He looks so young! He did a great job of performing Prince Henry; he is so witty and is very charming in this role! Jean Stapleton is so good, she almost steals the whole show for herself! I'll take her as my fairy godmother any day! She is just so loveable and she is so funny. Jennifer Beals was very good in this role; usually Cinderella is fair haired and fair complected but Jennifer Beals is dark-haired and dark-complected, and she is still very beautiful. Jennifer Beals and Matthew Broderick's chemistry is absolutely perfect, and you would almost think they would have made a good couple! I thought that their dance number was wonderful; oh I wish I had grace! The stepmother and stepsisters were your classic love-to-hate characters and they are exactly how I would imagine the stepmother and stepsisters in a live-action performance. A very well done show. I could watch it a million times in a day if I wanted to. My mother loves it even!

This is the best of Shelley Duvall's high-quality "Faerie Tale Theatre" series. The ugly stepsisters are broadway-quality comedy relief, and Eve Arden is the personification of wicked stepmotherhood. Jennifer Beals does an excellent job as a straight Cinderella, especially in the garden scene with Matthew Broderick's Prince Charming. Jean Stapleton plays the fairy godmother well, although I'm not sure I liked the "southern lady" characterization with some of the lines. Steve Martin's comedy relief as the Royal Orchestra Conductor is quintessential Martin, but a tiny bit misplaced in the show's flow.

As is customary with the series, there are several wry comments thrown in for the older children (ages 15 and up). With a couple of small bumps, the show flows well, and they live happily ever after. Children up to age 8 will continue to watch it after the parents finally get tired of it -- I found 3 times in one day to be a little too much.

In this edition of Faerie Tale Theatre, the classic story of "Cinderella" is retold in traditional fashion. A little bit of humor is indeed present, but otherwise it's pretty true-to-form.

Guest stars include Jennifer Beals, Matthew "Ferris Bueller" Broderick, and Jean "Edith Bunker" Stapleton (whose fairy godmother is easily the highlight).

The humor is nice, but the terribly wooden performance from Broderick takes some of the starch out, rendering this one good but not great.

its a great movie. It also shows that my theory (the one i told my teacher) is right so far. In every Cinderella story, one stepsister is skinny and the other is fat. I havn't really seen the cartoon, so im assuming that one is fat.

There's a great sense of humor in this retelling of the oft-told Cinderella tale with Jean Stapleton as the sassy Southern fairy godmother and Eve Arden as the horrific stepmother coming close to walking away with every scene they're in. Jennifer Beals and Matthew Broderick are both adorable as Cinderella and her prince and the effects and costumes are just magical enough. Excellent music score, too.