Cinderella rarely feels like the downtrodden, put upon sister we all know her to be.

The prince goes from a perma-bachelor bro to in love with Cinder in no time at all for something completely stupid (that would've gotten her imprisoned as well). Character growth happens in fits and spurts rather than feeling like there's any sort of progression. The characters are classics, pre-written for the movie with years of history and background to pull from. Got Cinderella running and jumping all over the place while singing and her tone never changes in the slightest and you can feel that. I get that doing songs during shoots could be tough but they could've at least tried a little to make it sound better and more accurate. But hey, it's a musical, so the music has to at least be good ri- NOPE! 99% of the songs feel so off because it's painfully obvious they weren't sung anywhere near the moment but rather were recorded in a studio and then later layered on top of all the lip synchs. We get like three rise up/empowerment songs in the first 20 minutes, a love song about 30 seconds after Cinder and the Prince meet and a few too many reprises. The songs all feel forced and out of place, like the person in charge of song selection just picked out a bunch of songs they liked and then threw them all over the timeline of this film whether they make any sense or not. Now we get this mashed up, sloppy mess to slog through.

Once upon a time, Disney nailed this with a wonderfully animated masterpiece full of whimsy and magic. I feel bad for the children of this generation if this is the Cinderella they have to grow up with.

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