February 7, 2021
Cinderella (1950) ****
Secret Movie Club Drive-In
$49 (double feature)
Disney animation
So, it was a Secret Movie Club Disney double feature at the drive-in, starting with Cinderella, a movie I have seen one million times. Or have I?
This keeps happening, I’m like, obviously I’ve seen Cinderella so many times, but then I’m watching it and I’m like, I don’t remember ANY of this! Of course, I have seen it, but I may not have seen anything but clips in various Disney specials for some decades.
However, it holds up! The mice are adorable, there is much tension with Lucifer the cat, and the wicked stepmother, and whether Cinderella will get to try on that slipper, etc. Less pecking out of eyes and cutting off of toes than in the Grimm version, and you have the mental picture of one year’s time everyone wondering why the palace is overrun by mice wearing little outfits, but it is generally as charming as you remembered it to be.
365 Films in 365 Days 