Cinderella (1950)
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005Young man, are you sure you’re trying it on the right foot?
Cinderella no doubt deserves to listed among the Walt Disney Company’s classic animated features. It is lushly and handsomely drawn and genuinely heartwarming. Songs like “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” are not the most famous to emerge from the Disney canon, but they are worthy of being called minor classics.
None of that disguises the simple fact that Cinderella is in many ways two shorter films shoehorned into one. The actual tale of the young scullery maid abused by her evil stepmother and vain, selfish step-sisters is too slight even to fill Cinderella’s not-quite-feature-length running time of 74-minutes. (more…)
