Okidoki, I got the DVD yesterday! And I can honestly say I
ADORED the movie, without a doubt. My review won't be as huge and detailed as
Disney Duster's, but here is my opinion on this wonderful movie! (Obviously, spoilers ahead!)
Wonderful points:
*Jennifer Hale! ! My word that girl is AMAZING! I was aware that it wasn't Illene Woods, but she has put her own identity on Cinderella, updated her, but still stayed true to the original. Tami Tappan was wonderful providing the singing voice as well. You could hardly tell they were different people.
*The animation! You could really tell the animators put their heart and soul into this movie. Its evident in almost in every frame of the movie. Especially Cinderella herself; I know it sounds cheesy, but the movie looked like the animators really loved her, and the movie is like a long love letter to her. The backgrounds look as if they have just been taken from the original, they are that good.
*Finially, a Disney Princess has a sequel she can be proud of! The main focus was on Cinderella herself, with no mice, sisters, fairy godmothers etc etc taking her rightful main character place. THANK GOODNESS!
*Forget the mice, Anastasia and Drizella were the funniest things in the movie! I laughed so much. And out loud as well! Especially the parts where Anastasia was cartwheeling around, and her mother caught her by the legs upside down
, when Drizella wanted to beat her with a stick, and the clunking around the ballroom with the glass slipper. Despite what others have said, I really loved Anatasia, and how her character changed. Fully believable, in my opinion.
*The Prince was wonderful, and now a hero worthy of Eric and Philip. The Stepmother was deliciously evil as well. When the Cinderella clone came out, I thought stepmother was really chilling.
*The songs and score were wonderful! Totally worthy of a Cinderella movie. Especially the score, which was so reminiscant of the originals.
*There was so much emotion in this movie. The heart wrenching moments for me were: Cindy's disbelif that the slipper isnt ment for her, hte slipper smashing, her piecing together the broken heart, cindy being taken away, and the prince not listening to her, the scene on the ship, and the ending. I cried a bit............
*The end credits and song were wonderful! I really enjoyed them!
Not so wonderful points:
*The titles. I dont think there was any need for her narration really. It chould have been someone else doing it, in a "Once Upon A Time...." fashion.
*Could have been slightly longer? It seemed to be over so fast!
*The Prince should have been given a name, and not use modern speach like "mom" and "dad" etc. Also, although I loved him, I was too conscience of thinking "Your Eric!".
*The second to last portrait on the end titles was exaclty like a photo booth photo! What was that about?
*The final, final scene. That was so not needed. AT ALL. That was the biggest downside to the movie for me. Pointless, and it made Cinderella and the Prince's victory seem less worthy.
There were only minor bad points on the movie in my opinion, but they did not detract form the fact that I LOVED AND ADORED IT !! !! I've seen it 4 times now! This is the best DTV ever, ever made. Well done to everyone who worked on it; they did Cinderella proud.
I'm sorry if the quality isn't that good, I ripped it from a downloaded version of the movie (the DVD hasn't yet been released here, as Supertallies keeps telling you 
). This means the songs are rips from a rip, which I guess has it's effect on the quality. I'll only listen to them casually, so it's not a problem for me. If you want, I can rip better versions once the DVD is released.
