Film Review: Cinderella

 Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy

Cert: U cert

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Screen writer: Chris Weitz (screenplay)

Starring: Cate Blanchett , Lily James , Richard Madden , Helena Bonham Carter , Nonso Anozie , Stellan Skarsgård , Sophie McShera , Holliday Grainger , Derek Jacobi , Ben Chaplin , Hayley Atwell , Rob Brydon , Jana Perez , Alex Macqueen , Tom Edden 

Running time: 105 min

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Some cleavage shown.

Violence & Gore: We hear two people have died: we see the mother just having a normal conversation before she drops below screen and the other one is verbally said: also, poor Cinderella's dress gets torn

Profanity:  Ella's dad says "what the hell" and "I'm pissed off" in a deleted scene, but he gets his mouth soap-washed by his wife shortly after.

One scene in the hall of paintings Cinderella quickly and quietly says, "Oh, my gosh."

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  Cinderella loses both of her parents, and is horribly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. The prince also loses his father.

Cinderella's carriage almost veers off a cliff while it is turning back into a pumpkin

Story: A girl named Ella (Cinderella) has the purest heart living in a cruel world filled with evil stepsisters and an evil stepmother out to ruin Ella's life. Ella comes one with her pure heart when she meets the prince and dances her way to a better life with glass shoes, and a little help from her fairy godmother, of course.

Likes : Most everyone knows the timeless classic story of of Cinderella, who lose's her mum, only to get a step mother, but her father dies leave her with a evil step mother & two sisters, out of all the version of see of this film, this is the best one yet.

Out of all Disney faults in business they certainly know how to make family film magical, (excuse the pun) This is a beautiful made film that i cant believe got some bad reviews but each to their own, Everything about this film bring an up to date version of this time classic with is story, choreography, costumes, the funny sense of humour this film adapted which really works for the film.

The casting for this film is brilliant, Cate Blanchett awesome actress brought a very cold dark nature to the concept of the evil stepmother her performance was nothing short of brilliance, as she give the audience a taste of her darker side of a character.

Richard Madden (known from game of thrones) playing the prince, dose a excellent job at portraying a future kind of the kingdom, brilliant performance from tv to movie. Lily James wow incredible beautiful & amazing performance as Cinderella, she complete stole the limelight in this film with that performance, i think she capture the real nature of Cinderella personality perfect.  

Helena Bonham Carter amazing versatile actress able to become the character she meant to play even tho its a short cameo role for her in this film, she pulls off amazing performance as the Fairy Godmother. 

Sophie McShera & Holliday Grainger great performance for the ugly sisters, plays these ditzy

twin sisters that are away arguing & fighting with each other, i think they capture the right concept s with these characters. Hayley Atwell put in a surprise cameo performance as Cinderella mother, she a great actress, just a shame she only got a short role in this film.

Although this film is a romantic timeless classic that most girl would love to happen for them, sadly life is not  a fairy tale, but this film dose have some seriously funny moments which just adds to the magic of the film, specially with the mice & the cat ; ive never laugh so hard in my life, just absolute amazing comical moments that Disney just know how to make perfect. 

The animation with the C.G.I is just perfect with the mice, what the director has done which i think is perfect was the best thing he did for the film that was to give the mice their own little characters & personality's along with the lizards & birds, this is what i love about Disney films, they make everything in to a character which makes this a perfect family to watch.

  

Dislikes : I couldn't faultier this film, just perfect in every way

Overall : Great chronograph, Perfect characters, brilliant casting, magical story telling of a timeless classic.

Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 10 out of 10 for new age version of the concept.