Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

mike48128 It is hinted in this version, that The Brothers Grimm "romanced" the story and this version is closer to the truth, but it is merely an extremely well-done alternate version, retaining the basic premise, the glass slippers and some pageantry. The slippers are invented by Leonardo Da Vinci, a wizard of a man but certainly not a fairy godmother! So many different "spins" on the well-known tale. Drew Barrymore acts more like a tomboy than a fairy princess and the royal family is quite unbelievable, but "that's those Royals for you". It borrows a bit from every version of Cinderella that you have ever seen and then drops it on it's ear. There is an evil rich lord who lusts after our heroine and has quite un-pure thoughts. Yet it retains the spunk of the more relaxed versions of "The Musketeers". Almost a "10" but it misses because it's a bit more violent than I expected. It is a far cry from being a sanitized Disney production. Enough "swashbuckling" that older children and adults will like it. A bit of blood as well, when The Lord finally gets his "due".

Sofia This tale is old as time and we all know it. Someone is sure that 'Cinderella' came to us from Egypt, where such legend took place in ancient times, but I think that every nation sooner or later created its own Cinderella's story. That's why there are so many interpretations. The plot of this fairy tale is very simple in comparison with the plot "Snow White" or "Sleeping Beauty", but the main thing is that, apart its "magic aspect", if it can be removed, the story could and can take place in real life. The interpretation which we analyze, the movie "EverAfter" (1998), directed by Andy Tennant, up to the handle, does not conclude this "magic aspect". Let's take the classic image of Cinderella. Scheherezade fight for her life telling fairy tales, Snow White becomes almost a mother to the seven dwarfs. And what does Cinderella do? (Sleeping Beauty doesn't count, she's sleeping all the time). She's been terrorized by her step- mother and sisters without any opposition, doing all nasty job. All the success in her life belongs to magic and her god-parent, she is ive. In Tennant's version there are no fairy and carriage-pumpkin, Cinderella doesn't need to be saved. She loves reading (her favorite one is "Utopia" by Thomas More). She's really worried about social injustice (she rescues one of the servants from the exile, and constantly shows the prince how far the royal family and common people are), so we can tell that she has a burning sense of just deserts. Also she's physically strong, she knows how to fight (she rescues the prince (!) from the gypsies, and rescues herself from the slavery without any help from prince). It's unbelievable for classical patriarchal fairy tale world, where every heroine patiently waits for rescuing by some gentleman. So without a doubt this is a feminist reinterpretation, in the first place. Any old fairy tale that we know begins with the words "once upon a time…". It means that setting is indefinite. This movie's setting is definite – of XVI century, Francis I is a king. His son Henri (in the future - Henri II) has an opportunity to choose the bride by himself. The father gives him three days, and all the events happen just then. Also among the characters acts Leonardo Da Vinci. What concerns a historicity of the movie, there are enough clashes with real events. Costumes tell us that it's something like 1516. "Utopia" was written just in 1516. But our heroine read this book in her childhood with a dad, about 10 years ago. "Mona Lisa" dates from 1519, so how characters could read Thomas More and observe Da Vinci's working process at the same time? The next thing is Henri, who was born only in 1519. Henri II got engaged with Ekaterina Medichi in 1533 - so no servants, no Spanish princesses, as you can see. Also in one scene we can see fireworks. Really? In XVI century? This story is quite detailed, we know more about characters, we see more development in Henri and Danielle's (Cinderella's name) relationships (not just fallen in love overnight). There is a problem of class inequality reflected. So we have volume characters, which don't seem as cardboard ones. One of the daughters, Jacqueline, for example, helps her half-sister. Even prince in the beginning is not so perfect, because he's quite arrogant and takes his position for granted. It's really fascinating to look after development of characters, watching them under the other angle.

Matt Miller This is a Cinderella story, a famous fairy tale. Daniel is a girl who grows with her father's full of love. The life is so happy; however, suddenly she loses her father because of disease. She feels grief, and what is worse, her stepmother force her to labor as a servant in a house. One day, she encounters a man who rides on a horse, and she misunderstands the man tries to rob her father's horse, therefore, she throws a stone toward him. Later, she realizes he is a prince and she apologizes to him. He is so kind a person and since then the relation between the two gets better. The prince declares that he finds his future wife in a dance party because he does not want to marry a woman his father introduce. His real purpose is to get Daniel. Daniel manages to prepare for the party and goes there. Although she meets the prince again, her stepmother comes out that Daniel is a servant in public. Therefore, the reunion results to fail. However, the prince learns what is a genuine love. The first time I watched this film, I was so impressed and attracted because this is different from Cinderella story I've known. The part which shows such a different thing from what I've known is that Daniel fight for the prince or herself with bad people. A clip where Daniel uses sword is amazing. Such a powerful and beautiful woman is touching my heart. In addition to this, dance party scene is excellent, especially, just when Daniel arrives at the party. This is one of my favorites. I want to watch it again.

SnoopyStyle The well known familiar fairy tale is bought into Renaissance Italy. Her evil stepmother Rodmilla (Anjelica Huston) has reduced Danielle (Drew Barrymore) to little more than a maid after the death of her father. Marguerite (Megan Dodds) is the horrible stepsister, and Jacqueline (Melanie Lynskey) is nice one. Prince Henry (Dougray Scott) can't stand his home, and runs into Danielle one day as well as Leonardo da Vinci (Patrick Godfrey) rescuing his Mona Lisa painting. Leonardo would be the fairy godmother.Drew Barrymore is doing a weird British accent in a costume drama taking place in 16th century Italy. There are castles and horses but little grandeur. Although it's a nice idea, it doesn't have any tension or magic. It's not gritty enough to be real nor beautiful enough to be fanciful. The story itself is good triumphing over evil just like the fairy tale.