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Cinderella

1950

Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske ...

Animation, Voice: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton ...

6.6

30,735

Animation. Kids. Romance. Fantasy. Musical Disney's adaptation of the beloved fairy tale became a classic in its own right, thanks to some memorable tunes (including "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," and the title song) and some endearingly cute comic relief. We all know the story--the wicked stepmother and stepsisters simply won't have it, this uppity Cinderella thinking she's going to a ball designed to find the handsome prince an appropriate ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"This 1950 effort shows Disney at the tail end of his best period, when his backgrounds were still luminous with depth and detail and his incidental characters still had range and bite."	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Considering the army of craftsmen who work on a Disney cartoon film, it is hard to give individual credits, for the memorable qualities."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"When those little mice bust a gut trying to drag that key up hundreds of stairs in order to free Cinderella, I don't care how many Kubrick pictures you've seen, it's still exciting (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Time	"'Cinderella' is beguiling proof that Walt Disney still knows his way around fairyland."	POS
United States	Variety	"The musical numbers woven into the fantasy are generally solid, with at least two or three likely hit tunes standing out in the half-dozen songs."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"As usual, everything is slightly glossy, soppy and hearty, yet not a string is left untwanged."	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"Despite its prodigious charms, it has probably destroyed more lives than any other Disney film, forcing a specific, unrealistic romantic archetype that truly does only exist in fairy tales (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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