Cinderella (GoodTimes)

Cinderella is a 48-minute animated film adapted from the classic fairy tale, "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault. It was originally released directly to video in 1994. The movie was produced by Jetlag Productions and was distributed to DVD in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment as part of their "Collectible Classics" line.

Plot
A wealthy and kind-hearted gentleman has all he could ever ask for: a loving wife and a most beautiful daughter who was kind and gentle. The three of them live happily in an opulent mansion on a hill overlooking the town. Life, however, is not always predictable and the man's wife died, leaving the man a widower and his daughter without a mother.

A year later the man marries once again with a new woman, who brings along her two plain-looking, socially awkward daughters who, along with their mother, possess cruel and selfish hearts. They resent the man's girl for her beauty and her kind nature.

When the man leaves on a business trip, the woman and her two daughters turn on the poor girl, forcing her into a life of drudgery and hard work. They kick her out of her own room and make her sleep on a straw mat in the kitchen, force her into wearing rags and wait on them hand and foot. As she sleeps by the fireside, she is constantly covered in ashes from the hearth and the Stepmother and her two daughters nickname the girl, "Cinderella."

However, Cinderella realizes she has a Fairy Godmother living in the snowglobe in her kitchen. Life turns around for the girl the day a grand ball is announced in which the prince will choose his bride.

The Stepmother and her two daughters are invited, and the Stepmother takes her two daughters into town to buy them new gowns. Cinderella wishes to go, but the Stepmother refuses and orders her to help her daughters prepare for the ball. Once the two Stepsisters are ready, Cinderella asks again to go to the ball, but the Stepmother refuses, unless Cinderella can sort a dish of lentils before they depart.

With the help of her Fairy Godmother, she almost succeeds, but the Stepmother finds one lentil on the floor and refuses to allow Cinderella to go with them to the ball. After her Stepmother and her two Stepsisters abandon her, Cinderella is provided with a magnificent gown and a glittering coach and sets off for the ball, with a warning from the Fairy Godmother to leave before midnight or else the magic will cease and everything will return to normal. Cinderella attends the ball and wins the heart of the Prince, who up until then had refused to wed until he found a woman he truly loved.

When midnight strikes, Cinderella flees through the palace gardens, leaving one glass slipper behind in the rush. The Prince vows to search the kingdom to find the girl whose foot fits the slipper, as he will marry no other. When the Prince arrives at Cinderella's house, the Stepmother orders her into the attic so as not to spoil her own daughters' chances. The elder Stepsister tries the shoe, but her foot is too fat; the younger Stepsister's foot is too small. But the Prince hears Cinderella singing and demands to see her. The shoe fits her foot perfectly, but to make sure it is not a coincidence, Cinderella brings forth the other slipper to prove who she is.

The Prince and Cinderella are married; Cinderella's father returns for the wedding, but she does not reveal how she suffered at her Stepmother's hands, and instead forgives her two Stepsisters, and marries them to two gentlemen of the palace court. Cinderella and the prince are married and they live happily ever after.

Why It's Not The Chance of a Lifetime.

 * 1) It's a direct rip-off of Disney's mh:greatestmovies:Cinderella (1950), and not even Disney was impressed with the end result, that it's no wonder they ended up suing GoodTimes again for making a film released 44 years after the Disney version.
 * 2) Poorly written plot that lacks adapting the folklore of the same name.
 * 3) An inconsistent tone that doesn't feel appealing to children.
 * 4) Much like all the other GoodTimes films, either Jetlag or Golden Films, it has very poor animation quality that's remotely comparable to DiC's, and not in a good way.
 * 5) Terrible soundtrack, especially when generic public domain music is used.
 * 6) They used "Cinderella" as means to make fun of her.
 * 7) That one disturbing moment at the beginning where the gentleman is turned on by his "most attractive daughter", implying that it's both absolute incest and pedophilia.
 * 8) Poorly executed jokes, especially ones involving the fat stepsister eating, because she’s fat. Newsflash, GoodTimes, FAT JOKES AREN’T FUNNY!!!!

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The animation is good for straight-to-video standards, despite having many errors.
 * 2) Decent voice acting from various people from Vancouver, including Kathleen Barr.

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