IMDb plot summary: A modern movie musical with a bold take on the classic fairy tale. Our ambitious heroine has big dreams and with the help of her fab Godmother, she perseveres to make them come true.
Directed by Kay Cannon. Starring Camila Cabello, Billy Porter, and Nicholas Galitzine.
Cinderella is the Amazon Prime jukebox musical version of Cinderella starring Camila Cabello as the title character. In this version, she's an aspiring dressmaker who ultimately has to choose between her dream of being a businesswoman and her dream of being a princess. Much has been said about this film's sloppiness, and I agree with all of it. The song choices are lazy and uninspired, the choreography is some of the worst I've seen in a long time, the stars have zero chemistry together, the vocals are unimpressive. The movie tries to bring a 21st-century sense of humor and self-awareness to its story, but this mostly doesn't work at all and comes across as deeply cringey and performative. I did love seeing so many small parts from people I recognized as competitors on the British TV show Taskmaster, and of course it's always nice to see Idina Menzel in something, but they're all woefully underused. It's just a strange, messy, slapped-together movie that has very little to recommend it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Cinderella < Monsters
Cinderella < Monkey Business (1952)
Cinderella > Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Cinderella > The Zen of Bennett
Cinderella < Highlander
Cinderella < The Monkey King
Cinderella < Easter Parade
Cinderella > Save the Last Dance
Cinderella > Kinsey
Cinderella < Bad Teacher
Cinderella < Roberta
Cinderella < Weekend
Final spot: #2832 out of 3512, or 19%.
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