Senin, 05 September 2016

Disney Rip-Offs: Cinderella (Jetlag Productions)

Just to let you know, I am not doing this in any particular order because to be pretty frank, I just want to get all these rip-offs over & done with so I can get on with reviewing animated movies that are easier on the eyes. And there is another Cinderella animated rip-off movie which I shall review soon! Anyway, can Jetlag Productions just butcher Cinderella like the other 2 knock offs that I've reviewed, or will this actually manage to surprise me as much as a carriage made out of a pumpkin? Let's. Take. A. Look.

Story: Oddly enough, this isn't really a rip-off of the Disney version. It does change a few elements including keeping the father alive, the abuse starting when Cinderella was an adult (or at least a teenager in this) & the Fairy Godmother appearing to help her when the suffering starts rather than when she isn't allowed to go to the ball. And honestly, one of these elements actually did something better than the Disney version! No, really! And that is with the Fairy Godmother helping Cinderella when the abuse starts & because it fixed up a problem I had with the original story. But keep in mind I did say ONE because there are still numerous implausibilities & moments of the characters having no brain cells (which I'll get to in a bit). There's the obligatory rushed pacing because of the short running time which leaves the movie to be crammed with inconsistent narration, a couple of musical numbers which are ironically pointless & absolutely no development from any of the characters. And that's not even going into the plot holes mostly thanks to their stupidity & as a result, leaves no sense of emotion or even atmosphere in any of the scenes. Sure, there was one thing that made the plot make a bit more sense, but that doesn't negate the rest of this dull version of the story at all.


Animation: Yes, like all Disney knock-offs, the animation is more than subpar! What else did you expect by now even if we're only 3 movies in?! With the obligatory off model & basic character designs, it may look LESS Disney-esque than the past movies by looking a bit more cartoony & caricatured, but that isn't really saying much given that they didn't even try hiding that the Prince's design was 'inspired' by Disney's version. The character animation is of course choppy & uninspired (including Cinderella & the Prince literally spinning around in circles at the ball) and the backgrounds from the house & castle are very generic & dull to look at. And that's not even bringing up the animation errors like the obvious recycled clips, poor lip synching, continuity errors & frozen frames before scenes start. Oh yeah, and this time round the backgrounds & actual animation don't interact very well together & the 'effects' to put it bluntly, look crap! Unsurprisingly, the animation is pretty bad in this, but like I've said before, was good animation really what you were expecting from this crap?


Characters: Yes, like before, the characters are all just cardboard cutouts of stereotypes & it's just getting irritating now & I'm only 3 movies into this trite. Cinderella is just bland as expected with little to no intelligence that's as passive as the cinders that cover her even when she has everything to gain when the stepmother doesn't let her try on the slipper. The Evil Stepmother looks like a mix of Frankenstein's wife & Beetlejuice with bad botox who doesn't even hold a candle to Disney's version & is nowhere near as intimidating. It's pretty amazing actually how her new husband didn't suspect how obviously evil she was! As for the stepsisters, they only have one character trait with one being fashion obsessed despite her poor taste while the other is fat & loves to eat (which is pretty much the whole joke) & their antics are never once funny! The Fairy Godmother is also surprisingly pretty bland despite helping Cinderella with trolling her stepfamily, getting her to the ball & convincing her to sing down the chimney to get the Prince to bring her downstairs. And speaking of, the Prince is exactly the same as the Disney version: he's equally as bland as Cinderella except he's stupider because he whines about not knowing who she is or her name despite never once asking what it was while spinning around in a circle at the ball for more than an hour! The King & Queen are just the pushy parents trying to get their son to get married with the former mumbling throughout his entire appearance! Oh yeah, and there's a narrator that pops up from time to time who is irritatingly condescending & just tells us everything that hasn't been seen onscreen instead of actually showing us! What else is there to expect from the characters in these Disney knock-offs?! Do I really need to say anymore by this point?


Songs: Yep, this movie has songs in it unlike the other movies reviewed thus far. And yes, they all suck! The opening song is just a way to introduce Cinderella & what she wants & nothing else. Not only does it get repetitive fast, but the lyrics feel lazily put together, the sound mixing is terrible & even the singer sounds like she doesn't give a crap! The second one is just the stepsisters getting ready for the ball which is equally as repetitive with such basic lyrics & melody that it felt like a 5 year old with no musical ability came up with it on the spot! In fact, it came so late into this movie that it made me forget that this was a musical! Anyway, the third one is just the Prince & Cinderella singing about their love for one another in a dream/hallucination which is pretty much a lazier version of So This is Love from the Disney film. Oh yeah, and there's a reprise of it so she could let him know she was locked upstairs which he recognizes despite never actually hearing her sing! So...yeah! The songs really are the icing on the cake for how boring this movie was.

Cinderella is admittedly the least bad of the Disney rip offs I've forced myself to watch so far, but that doesn't mean it's good. In fact far from it. The story is dull, the animation is garbage even by the standards of the rip-offs I've watched so far, all the characters are one dimensional & boring & the songs are just lazy & pointless. I highly suggest you just skip this movie entirely & just watch the Disney version unless you want to find something so bad it's entertaining. Then again, there's the second Cinderella rip-off that I'll have to slug through...
Story: 4/10
Animation: 2/10
Characters: 2/10
Songs: 2/10
Overall:

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