Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

I keep reading from time to time people saying oh it's not realistic because of the different races in the movies. Samantha (the previous post) even said that she doesn't know how to explain this to her kids. Is this a joke? First, there are millions of families out there that ARE like this! There are tons of families where the father could be white, the mother could be black, and they could have adopted an asian kid. Families these days are not standard, you can find every type of families. So it would be the perfect opportunity to explain that reality to your children and tell them that yeah people of different races can fall in love and that people sometimes adopt children. Also, this movie has such a positive message because its goal is to show that different races can live together and that we shouldn't even look at races because we are all humans and equal. For some people who are complaining and can't watch this movie because of the color, you have to look inside yourselves and ask yourselves why? I personally watch it and I love it, I don't even notice the different races, I see them all as humans. Also, another way of explaining this would be that this is a fairy tale, a fantasy. In the movie, there is magic, flying, tons of unrealistic things. Anything can happen in a fantasy movie including families from different races. So there are two different ways of explain it: 1. It's a fantasy anything can happen in it, 2. Adoption. Whitney Houston was behind this project as a producer and she should be applauded for this new refreshing take on this classic. It's nice for kids of all races wether white or black or asian to see themselves on the screen. The movie itself is very well done, the sets and visuals are stunning, all the actors did great, and the music is great. This is highly recommended!

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella is a delightful musical. I got to see the Leslie Ann Warren version on TV once a year when I was growing up, yet somehow I knew just about every song! (Oh to have that young brain again!) This version with Brandy meets the high bar as well. Brandy is Cinderella. Paolo Montalban is a fantastic Prince. Bernadette Peters is a wonderful mean step-mother! Vianne Cox & Natlie Reid were FANTASTIC mean step-sisters! The step-sisters really are my faborite roles. "And with very little trouble, I could pull out all her hair!" Hilarious! In many ways this version is better than the 60s one. Only one thing was a bit off-putting to me. This musical is timeless fantasy, but the wonderful Whitney Houston threw some sassy sitcom head moves in that really didn't belong there. It gives away when it was made in the 90s. Oh well, she made up for it with her beautiful vocals! I totally recommend this production.

I loved this movie when it came out in the nineties, and I recently introduced it to my kids who now demand to watch it pretty much everyday. My 2 year old son sings The Prince is Giving a Ball at the top of his lungs randomly throughout the day and I have had “Impossible” in my head on a loop for at least a month. It’s the best Cinderella. There are literally no “dead” parts - I don’t know about you, but for me there is normally some section of every movie that loses my attention and feels like it could have been left out. This has none of those. Every scene is useful! The music is amazing, and now I can watch both streaming at home or in my car’s entertainment system on the road. Buy it! You’ll be so happy you did.

Watching this movie is one of my earliest memories (yes, I just dated myself, whoops), and it's just as amazing now as it was then. The music is fantastic, the sets are stunning, and don't get me started on the costuming because it's brilliant on so many levels, from the opening scene where Cinderella and the Prince are the only people not wearing satin or velvet (no, seriously give it a good hard look. All that shimmer on the general populace is fancy fabric), to the split tulle overskirts on the ladies on the ball that are totally invisible until the music picks up, to the daisy hat on the flower seller. Bernadette Peters is as brilliant as she always is, and Brandy, while one of the weakest voices on the cast (as far as this particular genre goes, I'm not denying she's good at her usual sort of music, but Rodger's and Hammerstein's music isn't especially easy for people with buckets of theater voice training, which she doesn't have), still manages to pull off the sort of sweetness this part requires. Paolo Montalban is utterly charming as the Prince, and I'm sad he isn't in more film, and Whoopi Goldberg steals the show on several occasions. Is it campy? Yes, but it's a movie take on a stage musical take on a Victorian England take on a German fairytale, and it carries itself off charmingly because, not in spite of, this. If you haven't seen this yet, you've missed a gem, and you should stop reading these reviews and go watch it immediately.

I love this version of the musical! The casting was perfect.

I was a huge fan of the 1964 version (I watched it every year when they used to rebroadcast it), and I even like the 1957 version (which I bought on DVD), but this one is fantastic and has real staying power! I love the casting, the acting, the humor, and the music, including the new songs. My 6-year old daughter and I have enjoyed watching it again and again. Everyone in it is great, but for some reason I just love Whoopi Goldberg and Victor Garber as the Queen and King, whose amazing talents make the most of what were otherwise really small roles. And who wouldn't love the Prince and Cinderella in this version? They are so adorable, and so in love! I really prefer showing her this one instead of the earlier versions because of the inclusive casting, and because it is big, lively, colorful, and fun!

This movie was better than the original and the remake. This movie brings together different ethnicities to come as one big project. Many people who gave this product reviews are so used to seeing an all white cast that they think this was too much. It wasn't too much it just wasn't what you wanted to see! A blonde, blue eyed, Caucasian actress like Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson is what you wanted to see not a brown skinned goddess like Brandy Norwood, who can out sing them both vocally if it came down to it! It's a shame to see that racism is still alive and well even when the blending of the ethnicities was supposed to open peoples eyes and get them to see this production in a new light! People who have previously reviewed this movie say that Brandy cannot act do you really think Rodgers & Hammerstein would have picked her if she couldn't ? again , because she wasn't some caucasian movie starlet she just in their eyes didn't match up well she was and will always be the best Cinderella this production has ever seen hands down! This is a classic that I wil show my kids so that they can see you achieve anything even when you have your doubters!

This is one of my wife's favorites so I'll let her share her thoughts. Sarah Ashley: I love it on so many levels! This is the timeless story that every girl grows up with, presented in an updated way with all of the creative support of Disney. I could watch it 100 times and not get tired of it. First, the classic music is absolutely addictive. It's beautiful, fun, and performed so incredibly by the stars. The performances tug at your heart and pull you in. The choreography also adds to the joy of this film. The costumes are pure Disney magical, with wonderful color combinations, fabrics and designs. Combine that with the whimsical world created by the set designers and you end watching a beautiful fantasy and a work of art. Okay, granted the acting isn't academy award winning. And while it's true that my husband is the author of Walt Disney World® with Disabilities and we're huge Disney fans, I've loved this movie long before the book was a gleam in his eye, so I don't thing I'm biased towards Disney. This movie is a wonderful time and I highly recommend it!

Grandes actores para una película que, al igual de Princesa por sorpresa (1 y 2) sabe tener a la persona enganchada a la pantalla. Correcta, entretenida y palomitera.

1997 wurde diese Version von "Cinderella" veröffentlicht, die heute als echtes Kultur-Gut gilt. Zur Handlung brauche ich hier nicht viel zu sagen, die dürfte jedem bekannt sein. Die Musik ist der absolute Hammer, jeder Song für sich ist wirklich grandios und wird auch so gesungen! Auch der Cast ist star-gespickt und vom Feinsten: Die Hauptrolle wird von Brandy gespielt, die in den 90ern als Sängerin und Schauspielerin ganz oben war und hier ihr Können zeigt. Der attraktive Prinz wird vom Newcomer Paolo Montalban gespielt, der eine überraschend starke Stimme hat und die Rolle sehr überzeugend darbringt. Die gute Fee wird von niemand anderem als Whitney Houston gespielt, die zwar nur wenige Auftritte hat, in diesen aber wirklich (vor allem gesanglich) glänzt. Die Königin, dargestellt von Whoopi Goldberg, ist witzig, kommt aber leider nicht sehr oft vor. Auch die beiden Stiefschwestern machen ihre Sache super. Einzig die böse Stiefmutter, dargestellt von Bernadette Peters, bleibt ein wenig hinter den Möglichkeiten zurück. Auffällig: Der Cast ist sehr divers besetzt, so gibt es die erste schwarze Cinderella überhaupt. Ob das immer Sinn macht, sei dahingestellt - wie sollen eine schwarze Königin und ein weißer König einen asiatischen Prinzen bekommen? Als Extras gibt es den Trailer und ein 15-minütiges Making of, das sehr interessant ist. Leider gibt es den Film nur auf Englisch, doch alle Darsteller sprechen und singen so klar und deutlich, dass man jedes Wort ohne Probleme versteht. Auch das Abspielen am Laptop ist überhaupt kein Problem, sodass einem schönen Film-Erlebnis nichts im Wege steht!

Wanted this film for years, relieved to finally get it.

É sensacional a produção, o elenco, as atuações; é um filme que vale a pena ser contemplado. Gosto mais da Whitney em Cinderella do que em O Guarda-Costas.

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