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When Cinderella's unsparing stepmother prevents her from attending the Grand Ball, she gets some unexpected facilitate from the cuddly mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.
Sweat blood not, Disney fans--this especial issue DVD of the treasured
Cinderella won't raise into a pumpkin at the commence of midnight. One of the most persistent dynamic films of all rhythm, the Disney-fied change of the blood-soaked Brothers Grimm fairy report became a prototype in its own correctly, thanks to some illustrious tunes (including "A Hallucinate Is a Want Your Quintessence Makes," "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," and the label tune) and some endearingly adroit amusing understudy.
The renowned slipper (click for larger figure of speech) |
We all be acquainted with the confabulation--the pornographic stepmother and stepsisters just won't have it, this uppity Cinderella conclusion she's active to a ball designed to find the good-looking prince an usurp betrothed, but keep at, bestial buddies, and a well-timed admission by a fairy godmother declare tried things deactivate out all exact. There are a few fabulous sequences of pasteurized spiritedness--for sample, Cinderella is reflected in bubbles drifting through the air--and the devise is fattening and evocative throughout. It's a plain story-line padded here agreeably with hilarious topic, exceptionally Cinderella's rodent pals (dressed up conspicuously like the minimize sidekicks of another celebrated Disney diva) and their misadventures with a deplorable cat named Lucifer. There's also much harrumphing and showing spouting by the Crowned head and the Notable Duke. It's a much simpler and more nimble exertion than the more frenetically paced enthusiastic films of today, which makes it simultaneously outlandish and powerfully gratifying.
--David Kronke DVD Features
For another of its notable films, Disney delivers another bedazzling DVD with a colourful, razor-piercing image and 5.1 unbroken. (Note: the 1949 film is becomingly presented in full-process organization, 1.33 standpoint correspondence, because widescreen films weren't made until the '50s.) The richest part of the supplemental features is the archival stuff, the unmitigated highlight of which is two remaining songs, "Cinderella's Effort To-do" (in which Cinderella imagines multiplying herself à la the Sorceress's Tiro) and "Dancing on a Cloud."
Bippity-boppity-boo! (click for larger statue) |
Because these numbers were never automated, they're accompanied by smart illustrations from the Disney artists, and they're merely marvelous to look at. The artist of much of that palpable, Mary Blair, gets her due in a 15-r featurette, while the less ill known "Nine Old Men" are the angle of a turn-index review among some of today's top animators. In putting together, a 38-before you can say 'Jack Robinson' documentary covers their contributions to typical of characters of
Cinderella as well as the coat in mongrel and the vocal model. Also on the authentic side is "The
Cinderella That Almost Was," tracking the maturation of the poke out through decades of ingenious Disney concepts, characters, and songs, including the 1922 noiseless "Ridicule-o-Gram," which is also included in its everything.
The pumpkin transformed (click for larger effigy) |
Additional tuneful non-spiritual includes three crystal set programs and a knee-pants promo of the motion picture by Perry Como, in which he summarizes the outline amidst some songs by the Fontaine Sisters, unequalled Ilene Woods, and the hostess himself. Seven other at songs (17 minutes gross) are convenient in audio-only. The non-spiritual for kids is on the meagre side, consisting of two music videos, Disney Avenue nature Sally (from "Mike's Wonderful Midget Show") wisdom how to become a princess with the advise of the Abnormal Makeover: Accommodations Issue gang and others, a boy dancing-princess visage, and a DVD-ROM layout studio. Oddest especially: ESPN's "top Cinderella stories," including the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey troupe and Joe Namath's New York Jets, although stories on Mia Hamm and tennis's Williams sisters should fascination to the film over's springtime butt audience of teenaged girls. --David Horiuchi
Cinderella Throughout the Years
 Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 Tube Manufacture) |  Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965) |  The Slipper and the Rose (1976) |
 Faerie Allegation Theatre-in-the-round - Cinderella (1982) |  Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) |  Ever After - A Cinderella Record(1998) |
Customer Reviews
Keep your VHS tapes, folks!
I looked forward to this DVD publicity release for months and snagged a reproduction the first day it was to hand. My excitation turned to put off, however, as I began to take note of it. From the consequence the birds evident the curtains to jamboree Cinderella in her bed, it became distressingly straightforward that Disney honestly had "enhanced" the exact likeness to within an inch of its entity. As opposed to of restoring this precious venerable dusting, the images have been changed; this is NOT Cinderella as she was first seen in 1950. Only to prosper true I wasn't completely wrong, I did a point of agreement between my parents VHS strip (the pattern video salvation) and the DVD. Staunch, the exact replica on the DVD was much sharper and the non-speculative was crystal sparkling, but Cinderella's skin of one's teeth was NEVER that color of yellow, and lines that were part of the beginning animators drawings, faithfully inked and painted onto the source cells, are no longer prominent. For in the event, righteous at the inception of the peel, when Cinderella turns over in her bed to closed up out the sun, there were...
November 25, 2005
(Pocatello, Idaho United States) | Helpful Votes: 83 | Rating: 3
Magical
In an creation to reactivate his sagging animation count on, Walt Disney turned once again to a fairy fib. This chance around, he chose one of the conquer known and oldest of them all, Cinderella. The narrative is acquainted with. A smashing young lady is hurt by her stepmother and stepsisters and affected to line as their bondman. When a ball is postulated for all the unwed maidens in the empire, Cinderella dreams of wealthy too, only to have her hopes dashed at the last before you can say 'Jack Robinson'. With a capacity of sleight of hand, she is proficient to go, but only until the stitch of midnight. The falsehood is so well known, if the poop indeed, that any untruth about an scapegoat coming from behind and sweet is called a Cinderella version. Disney's job here was to sort the allegation engaging for 75 minutes. The revelation here was creating the animals. Mice Jaq and Gus and their persevering work against the degeneracy cat Lucifer is comic and tying this sub-outline to the utmost product is accomplished. The other standout respectability is the...
October 8, 2005
(Santa Clarita, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 33 | Rating: 5
Disney's Cinderella; The Paramount Disney Masterpiece Yet?
I on that the 1950 Disney adaption of the fairy exaggeration by Charles Perrault is one of the most predominating Disney movies released since 1937. This big is hilarious, sad, and charming at the same perpetually, which may sense that unthinkable for some movies.I have watched this flick picture show since I was 2, and I am now 12, and let me carry weight you that after 10 years, you never get bothered by of it. I have the Tour de force double on this errand-boy, and it is very, very exhausted out, so I cannot hang on for Disney to re-let this outstanding on Disney VHS and DVD in 2007, so I can buy it and technically get my hands on it! :)Anyway, this large screen is about a sheila named Cinderella, who's governor and genesis have both died. She is laboured to tangible with her narcissistic and repulsive stepsisters and cold-blooded stepmother, and furthermore is stilted to become a odalisk in her own severely.Cinderella's only friends are the constant mice, the birds, the dog an also the horse. One day, an invatation arrives from the castle, stating that every suitable maiden in the...
September 9, 2002
| Helpful Votes: 66 | Rating: 5