Cinderella III expertly balances itself, being irreverent without coming off as actively ashamed of its source material.
With very little development and no real plot, there was nothing much to offer in the way of informing a third chapter. Thats a good thing because all anyone needs to know about that installment is that it may be the worst 'movie' Disney has ever attached their name to. There's something admirable about that, and it helped that their sequels were generally still trying to thread the needle of honoring the original films but modernizing stuff as needed. Cinderella III: A Twist in Time essentially overlooks 2002s Cinderella II: Dreams Come True. The DTS folks were up a creek making sequels to movies they probably didn't think needed sequels, but they tried to make lemonade out of the lemons they were given. Films that probably cost far less for the company, as one former employee observed when comparing the box office fortunes of something like Return to Neverland to something like Treasure Planet. And yet, when given sufficient time and staff, they were consistently capable of putting out well-animated feature films. They were operating from a point of disadvantage (several disadvantages, if we can be perfectly frank). I wasn't trying to denigrate their work on the Fairies projects or the Planes films, I just thought it was unfortunate that the last division of Disney dedicated to making feature-length hand-drawn films effectively had that status revoked.Īnd I'll ditto most of your earlier points about the studio staff themselves. I've only seen the first Tinker Bell, which I enjoyed a fair deal. The king sees her awful dancing and takes her aside to show her how special his late wife was to him for that same reason, how the "faults" others saw were what he fell in love with. Seeing Anastasia experience affection and love from others confuses her, for instance. It shows the hidden trauma and even toxic relationships that pushed them into certain roles. It shows you why they are the way they are. it then begins to explore and flesh out what makes these characters tick. Anastasia herself is a highlight, as she is the polar opposite of Cinderella in being clumsy, tactless, graceless, and clearly in way over her head.īut that's where the film revealed the thing that elevated it above so many other Disney sequels, and I dare say even above the original. What I really wasn't expecting was the film to just be so genuinely funny as the characters scramble to make sense of the new status quo, compare notes, and try and figure out what the heck is happening. Needless to say, more shenanigans and magic warping goes into effect to make sure Anastasia is lined up as the Prince's future bride, and not Cinderella.
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