Reviews

The only characters I enjoyed watching were the step family and the prince. I liked the twist they gave the step mother and how she wasn't a total slave driver to Cinderella and more so treated her as a less favored daughter. Though I know she wasn't a total saint considering she was going to marry her off to someone she didn't like and she wouldn't even be married into someone with a rich title. The prince was very handsome and entertaining and I liked the twist they gave him and Cinderella in the end with the prince giving up his crown to be with Cinderella who instead of becoming a princess, achieved her dreams as a designer and gave the royal title to his sister. That being said, Camilla's acting was not suited for this role. I get this is her first acting role but all in all, this wasn't a good choice for her first acting experience. Her singing voice is too pop sounding and the way she portrayed the character was too modern day teenager for my taste. I have faith she can do other roles that are more suited for her type of style in singing and acting but this was not it. Also, it seems kind of insulting to purposely have Pierce Brosnan play a character who can't sing considering how apparently he can't sing in real life. I hope he wasn't offended by this. I also didn't like how they didn't stick to doing just original songs and did a bunch of covers of classic songs. Was very cringey to watch that. Then again, I kinda felt the same way about Mamma Mia so don't take my word for that. At least Cinderella did have their own songs as well. Also and I'm sorry to James Corden fans but why him? Why must he be in so many musical films? He was another one I was uncomfortable watching especially that scene where they all turned back into mice. That was beyond cringey. Like why was he the only one who briefly had a human head and a mouse body before completely turning back to a mouse? Why was that necessary? Honestly, if they stuck to original songs, had someone else play Cinderella, had someone else play James Corden's role and as others have described, have it be less girl power while men are treated like scum or belittled or humiliated I would've enjoyed this movie more.

Sure there were more Diana scenes than Wonder Woman but I'm ok with that. The fight scenes were awesome, I loved Barbara's transition to Cheetah, I cried when Diana and Steve said good-bye, I cried when Maxwell reformed and reunited with his son. It was just a beautiful movie! My only true complaint is how it ended with Barbara/Cheetah. Like we're left not knowing what happened with her. Did she go back to who she was? Does she still somehow keep her strength? Will she become Cheetah again? I LOVED that they were able to include the invisible plane. I hope at some point, Diana learns to do the twirl to turn into Wonder Woman. Would definitely be a time saver for when there's danger and she wouldn't have to hide it underneath her regular clothes. This movie was great and I think the people who hated it don't understand it or are too quick to judge or are perfectionists.

I don't get why everyone's calling this a remake. It's not a remake. It's another adaption of the book. I think people need to focus more on comparing the movie to the book rather than the 1990 movie. I will say that the 1990 movie was a lot darker and dramatic while this one is more comedic and light hearted but I never expected this to be a copy of the other movie since again, it's not a remake. Here are what I think are the pros and cons of the movie.

Pros:Stayed more true to the book especially the ending, Anne's performance was amazing and I could tell she had fun with this role, I liked Daisy/Mary's story, the costumes were great especially the Grand High Witch's, loved the final battle feel between the grandma and the GHW, the beginning was really well done and emotional, loved the scene of the witches meeting especially the GHW's dialogue and the witches chasing after Luke, Mary and Bruno, even though she didn't have an unmasked form, I still liked what they did with the GHW's "true look" and still found it quite terrifying, loved Octavia's performance even though I felt that she was too young for the role.

Cons:CGI was over the top, movie seemed a bit rushed, I didn't like the way the grandmother's backstory was played out, was confused as to why the GHW didn't have an unmasked form but I still liked what they did with it (I put that under both the pros and cons list because I was kinda disappointed but I still liked it), felt bad for Bruno's parents that they never got Bruno back, don't get why the main character is just labeled as "Hero" instead of Luke or some other name though I can't remember if he was given a name in the book.

Overall, I think the biggest highlights of this movie was Octavia and Anne's performances and it staying more true the book than the 1990 movie did even though the time settings were different and they changed the races of the grandma and grandson but I don't mind that.