Film Review – Cinderella (2021)

There are going to be adaptations of “Cinderella” for many lifetimes to come. The folk tale has been a constant source of family entertainment, with many productions over the last century trying to refresh the magic of the story. For 2021, writer/director Kay Cannon (“Blockers”) gets the call to something with the source material, and she returns to her roots to reimagine “Cinderella,” with the “Pitch Perfect” writer returning to the land of jukebox musicals to hip-up ancient material. It’s a pop music world for this endeavor, which also boasts a decidedly more progressive screenplay and a new vision for the Fairy Godmother, reworked here as a “Fabulous Godmother,” who represents the overall drive for representation in the feature. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com