Brandy's cupcake-esque dress when she was performing that one song at the end was dreadful. 
Billy Porter and Todrick Hall were kind of annoying, tbh, I didn't expect that. I don't know why they kept comparing it to Walt's Cinderella rather than the other versions of R&H's Cinderella (Leslie Ann Warren and Julie Andrews). Them bashing the Fairy Godmother in Walt's version kind of annoyed me, even though I do like Whitney's Fairy Godmother (and song) better. I mean R&H's music way outclasses the Disney film's soundtrack, but they're totally different things anyway, I'm not sure why they were comparing them.Anyway, I enjoyed seeing the film again. I have a VHS copy, so I can watch it any time, I just hadn't in a while. Most of the film works--love the prince, stepmother, stepsisters, Whoopi's Queen, Jason Alexander's character, the Fairy Godmother, the music, etc. Brandy and the (mostly) gaudy costumes / sets are the weakest part of it all. I had the thought watching this time during the scene with the Stepmother following "A Lovely Night," where she realizes Cinderella was the girl at the ball, that most of what she says to Cinderella is really a projection of what applies to herself. "You're common"--the Stepmother being played as a touch White trash here, lol. "Your father filled your head with dreams and fancy ideas that'll never come true" (paraphrasing, probably got some of it wrong)--similar to how the Stepmother sings of once being in love, but being jilted and having become bitter.
One of the things I like about this version is that the stepfamily do feel like a family, little things like the way the Stepmother smiles at the stepsisters dreaming of romance during "A Lovely Night," for example. She's sweet with her own daughters. Bernadette Peters' Stepmother is probably the one that I feel is closest to the Walt Stepmother as far as she feels like she really does love her own daughters and is trying to instruct them to be better than they are for their own sake--although the Stepmother here is much less dignified and intelligent than Lady Tremaine, of course. (Lady Tremaine having "lady" in the only name we have for her feels appropriate because she is very lady-like to me.) The Cate Blanchett stepmother, for example, didn't seem that attached to the daughters there. The Stepmother in Ever After seems to push her daughter more as a means to an end than out of love--shown in the way she doesn't care about her other daughter because she's not useful (beauty being a useful asset).
That, and I feel like the Stepsisters here actually do like Cinderella in their own bratty sort of way... Sort of like enemies who sort of "get used to" one another.
The way they act towards Cinderella is more cues taken from the Stepmother on the pecking order than true nastiness. For example, Cox's stepsister asking Cinderella what she thinks of the hat or how they both listen to Cinderella in "ALN" and just before "Falling in Love With Love." Whereas most other versions, the stepsisters feel almost irredeemably awful because they're often too stupid to even know they are awful or know how to not be awful. 
Although the Estelle one seemed too...well...looney to me, lol. I do not at all get Verna'a as condescending, though! :0 I just don't see it! She is sweet and loving and befuddled to me, and is my most favorite! I was her for my first trick-or-treat I think. My mom made my costume.