The pinnacle of Disney mediocrity

Rating: 5/10 (30 April 2016)

I call this strictly an average film because Cinderella is actually a mixed bag. On my + side, the human characters are strong, the magic works as well as the marketing boasts, and when the mice are actually important, they can keep the movie going enough to continue to watch it. The songs are overall average, with Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo being the only one I enjoyed. The rest, I could merely describe as sufferable. On my - side, I found Jackson, Octavius, and the other mice to have insufferably annoying voices, and when they aren't important to the Perrault plot, I couldn't stay awake. The mice get into all sorts of antics with Lucifer, distracting him to retrieve food, escape the castle, or other things that Cinderella has nothing to do with. The only scene of this Tom and Jerry clone that I enjoyed was the final one, not only because it meant an end to these ripoffs but also because IT WAS ACTUALLY IMPORTANT TO CINDERELLA'S PERSONAL STORY. The rest of them attempted to be like Tom and Jerry with more mice, but quality trumps quantity when it comes to the amount of mice you have against a cat. I don't know if I've been too harsh on it, but personally I would skip these scenes and leave remembering magic and important comic reliefs. Other than the mice vs. Lucifer scenes, this is decisively worth it.