IMDb plot summary: A modern twist on Cinderella set in New York City's Sneaker culture.
Directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum. Starring Chosen Jacobs, Lexi Underwood, and Devyn Nekoda.
Sneakerella is a Disney+ gender-swapped version of Cinderella, this time about a hopeful young sneaker designer named El who ends up meeting the daughter of a sneaker royalty family. The movie is also a musical, featuring several upbeat modern pop songs along with a cover of "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes." So this movie doesn't tread any new ground, really. The Cinderella story has been done to death and nothing in the narrative of this remake really stands out. What does stand out and make this decently watchable is some good musical choreography (the opening song and the villain song in particular are great fun) as well as how charismatic our lead is. Chosen Jacobs, who was in the 2017 adaptation of It, plays our hero and he is just instantly someone you want to root for. Nobody else in the film is quite as interesting, which is unfortunate when it comes to building romantic chemistry, but Jacobs does a pretty good job of carrying everyone else along. Was this necessary? Nah. But was it ok? Sure.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Sneakerella < Spellbound (1945)
Sneakerella > Ivan the Terrible, Part One
Sneakerella > The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Sneakerella > Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Sneakerella > Chocolat
Sneakerella > A Walk on the Moon
Sneakerella > Something the Lord Made
Sneakerella < The Harder They Fall
Sneakerella > C'mon C'mon
Sneakerella < Fahrenheit 451
Sneakerella < Ron's Gone Wrong
Sneakerella < The Misfits
Final spot: #1836 out of 3630, or 49%.
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