Review: Boring take on an old fairy tale
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2013
This story is basically a retelling of the Cinderella classic fairytale.The usual characters are there.  Eleanor (Ella), her stepmother (Millicent), her stepsisters (Beatrice and Prudence), her Godmother (Dame Merriweather) and, of course, her handsome love interest (Max).  In this version, the stepmother and stepsisters are not mean or nasty, just airheaded and useless.  Max, on the other hand, is just plain stupid and selfish - hardly romantic hero type.Due to her stepmother's mismanagement, Ella is forced to start her own business as a seamstress (which she actually enjoys and is very good at) in order to keep the family financially afloat.  All the servants have been released and the other women are so hopeless, they depend on Ella for everything - cooking, cleaning, not to mention their own personal grooming.Because we all know how the story ends, I felt something more was needed in the telling of the story, some sort of twist, to make it interesting.  I suppose the explicit sex scene was a departure from the original tale.There were quite a few typographical errors and the whole thing just had a generic feel about it - as if it could be set in any Kingdom anywhere in the world.  Unfortunately, the use of the words "fall" and "mommies" gave it a distinctly American feel.Overall, it was just too slow and boring.