Cinderella: The Enchanted Beginning Movie Download

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“Enchanted”?
For me, one of the really cool aspects to writing a review is being able to share an opinion without having an agenda nor from a pretentious point of view because that is NOT what people want read…okay, it’s not what I want to read. Good or bad…as long as I know it comes from an honest place I value those a lot more. Face it, you can usually tell is someone has an agenda or not as you read their reviews. In the case of “Cinderella: The Enchanted Beginning”, I will confess I was looking forward to watching it.

No, I’m not a 10 yr. old girl fixated on “princesses”, but there is still a piece of the child in me that still enjoys a good fantasy picture where good & ethics triumphs over evil…we can all use a little magic in our lives.

I’ve watched my share of Cinderella-type movies and still enjoy the basics even when the name “Cinderella” isn’t in the title like one of my favorites being the Drew Barrymore 1998 film “Ever After”.

For this movie, a few things stick out in my mind and they are not meant to be mean or cruel…just honest:
First, I think the term “Enchanted” comes from the part in the movie where Cinderella is walking around the backyard and she tells him she planted the tree they are about to sit under when she was a kid. Normally, for a Banyon Tree to reach the size it was takes hundreds of years, but since she’s supposed to be only 16 the tree would have to be “enchanted” to grow that much in less than 16 years.

Second, the performances of a few of the adult characters (i.e. Christine Galliano’s “Aunt Claudia”) were fine.

Third, the sound. Overall the film looked & sounded like someone had some type of camera & decided to film this in someone’s home because many times the actors sounded hollow or were in a place where the acoustics were awful. A few of the picture-in-a-picture “special effects” worked well.

And finally, if you are going to film a “ball”, you need more than 3 background players AND it should not occur in the Dining Room or Family Room. (Which reminds me, if you’re going to have a “social function” decide what it is and stick with it. At first there was to be a “ball” then it was referred to as a “party” and at some point the line about people wearing masks was thrown in. Consistency is important!)

For this movie you can’t really find fault with any one aspect. Instead, the problems range from direction to acting to production vales to the script. There are so many holes in the script you wind up saying “huh?” out loud (the physical fight between the 2 stepsisters: embarrassing to watch). I’m also not convinced there were many rehearsals which would have helped with the various relationships.

I think this movie could be used in higher education courses for future filmmakers so anyone going into the field learn how important “choices” are when it comes to quality.

I have no doubt the intentions for making this film were good, but it takes more than just “intentions” to make something worthwhile when asking people to spend 70 minutes of their time watching a movie. You have to do something this film doesn’t: Deliver.Read More