Review of Cinderella 3D

I must confess that I wouldn't have even heard of this movie if it weren't for Bobsheaux. Honestly, I'm not surprised that I couldn't find it anywhere else because I'm honestly not sure where to begin with this one. While I liked the idea of having a standard fairytale with a cast full of cute animals (not unlike Disney's Robin Hood) the execution leaves a great deal to be desired. Moving this old tale to a wild west setting was also something that could have worked but again it simply didn't do much for the movie itself. For one thing, the animation certainly doesn't help. Although Cinderella looks pretty good, especially in her feathery blue dress (I know this sounds borderline blasphemous but I almost prefer deer-Cinderella over human-Cinderella appearance-wise), almost everything else looks absolutely cringeworthy. There are even a few cameos of creatures that look more like vegetables than animals. The pirate subplot had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the story; and also, pirates in the desert, seriously? Prince Vladimir is interesting but has an annoying voice and the duchess is probably the best character (not that that's saying much); but honestly, those are they only characters I can even remember. I can't even remember most of the characters, the story was all over the place, and the animation is bad enough to make some animals look like vegetables (unless this is a world where animals and vegetables coexist). All this just disappoints because it could have been so much more. Not terrible, but disappointing.