![]() ![]() The story quickly gets underway, and there’s certainly too much packed into these first few minutes, which attempts to play clever and get the plot moving in an opening song, but one that proves all too frantic for so early in proceedings. Moving into the film, it was cheese from the off, typified by Cinderella’s turn and, no joke, smile to camera as if she was waiting for the main title to identify her and wait…there it is! Uh-oh… The film opens with a first for a DTV movie I think, the new Disney Pictures logo, which looks every bit as flat and bland on DVD as it did when I saw it in a movie theater last summer. Nevertheless, I was still intrigued enough to sit down to watch Cinderella III: A Twist In Time with an open mind, such was the draw of that central idea. And then it turned out that the concept of Cinderella’s happily ever after being undone by the Wicked Stepmother wasn’t such an original idea at all, having been played out under a different setting and production as an entertainment piece exclusively performed on the Disney Cruise ships. ![]() Unfortunately, any bias I already had was amplified when I saw the online preview for Cinders III and it seemingly proved to be everything I was expecting (or should that be dreading?) – formulaic ballads of the kind that give musicals a bad name among non-fans, so-so animation, and those garish direct-to-DVD colors that firmly place these knock offs in younger audiences’ camps. It’s a shame Disney continues to number their follow ups and spin offs to their classic library, as simply labeling this one “ Cinderella: A Twist In Time” would have allowed for those who ultimately pick this up to safely skip the abomination that was Cinderella II: Dreams Come True without feeling they have a “missing number” in their collections.Īs such, I had massive preconceptions going in to this-third-time-around-the-block effort from Cinders and co, though its clever attempt to shake things up via pulling the original film apart did at least urge me to raise my hand when the review copies were being handed out. Straight off I’m going to urge you to read right to the end of this review rather than take my initial comments at face value…you may be surprised!
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