Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Brand: BRANDY EAN: 0786936143355 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 04, 2003 Running Time: 88 minutes Sales Rank: 1828 Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 1997
Product Description: Special Disney presentation of the classic musical of Cinderella, who suffers the torments of her wicked stepmother and spoiled stepsisters. Genre: Feature Film Family Rating: NR Release Date: 4-FEB-2003 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: More is not necessarily better. A glitzy Hollywood cast and a big budget did not improve the wonderful 1957 teleplay (or its equally charming 1964 remake) upon which this version is based. This is partly because Brandy, cast in the title role, cannot act. Not helping matters are Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mother and Jason Alexander as his valet. Their shtick wears thin very quickly. However, Paolo Montalban is charismatic as the prince, and Whitney Houston plays a fairy godmother with pizzazz. The production cost millions, and is certainly lavish, but the whole affair feels forced and overdone, reminding one of a prom queen wearing too much makeup. It does deserve credit for a multi-ethnic cast, the addition of two new songs and a hip attitude. However, the 1964 version (the original was not taped) is much sweeter and more romantic. Originally released as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Rating: - "CINDERELLA" 1997: BRANDY AS POP PRINCESS FOR A POP MUSIC GENERATION.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella" was originally written in 1957 as a television showcase for Julie Andrews. That original live broadcast was seen by an estimated 107 million viewers. The charming musical's reputation was nearly destroyed by an embarrasingly amateurish 1965 TV remake featuring Lesley Ann Warren. It is this version, unfortunately, that was videotaped and shown on TV for several decades. Richard Rodgers obviously took leave of his senses, since he was executive producer of the 1965 remake. Oscar Hammerstein II died in 1960. If he had still been alive, the 1965 remake, which has all the charm and professionalism of a First Grade School Play, would certainly have killed him!
Nearly forty years after the original 1957 TV presentation came this 1997 candy-colored remake. It's all very attractively staged by director Robert Iscove and choreographed by Rob Marshall ("Cabaret," "Annie," ... Read More
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Rating: - Brandy Haters
Thsi movie was better than the original and the remake. This movie brings together different ethnicities to come as one big project. many people who gave this product reviews are so used to seeing a all white cast that then think this was too much. It wasn't too much it just wasn't what you wanted to see! A blonde, blue eyed, caucasioa perosn like Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson is what you wanted to see not brown skinned goddess like Brandy Norwood who can out sing them both vocally if it came down to it! It's a shame to see that racism is still alive and well even when the bleniding of the ethnicities was supposed to open peoples eyes and get them to see this production in a new light! People who have previously reviewed this movie say that Brandy cannot act do you really thing Rodgers & Hammerstein would have picked her if she couldn't again because she wasn't some caucasian movie starlet she just in their ... Read More
Rating: - The best Cinderella ever!
Growing up, Cinderella was my favorite fairy tale and this version is the best! Whitney Houston and Brandy are both flawless in their singing, and the rest of the cast is great as well.
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