OK... I have to admit that I loved Cinderella as a kid... you know the fairy tale dreams about getting rescued by a handsome prince. I loved every Cinderella show I have watched thus far but I have to admit that I do have problems with this one. Granted in this day and age, racism is (hopefully) becoming a thing of the past... well, it is less prevalent now than it was ages ago... I have to admit that I do have some problems with it.
Firstly, I like to believe that there are no race issues in fairy tales (well, except for Snow White 
. However, whilst this version of Cinderella tries to be politically correct... it sure screws up the genetics of reproduction. I mean, come on... kids are and will be watching this movie for gawd's sake! Now, don't get me wrong, I have no problems with accepting a black American (is that the politically correct term?) Cinderella or fairy god mother... but check this out... the ugly step sisters... well, one of them was "white American" whilst the other was black American. Now, how is this genetically possible? One was pure white and the other, of a very dark pigmentation?
(these pictures are not my work... I got them of the Net... can't remember the site though 
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Then, the Queen, played by Whoopi Goldberg was "black", the King was "white" and they produced an Asian looking son... how is that possible? Was the Prince adopted? And if so, that would add a new twist to the fairy tale. I am not sure if adoption existed in that era. OK... maybe he wasn't adopted... perhaps, the queen committed adultary or perhaps the King did (makes more genetic sense seeing that the Asian gene is quite strong and the Prince didn't bear an ounce of dark skin pigments). Now, if kids watch this, they are going to grow up thinking that it is possible to produce different coloured children!
Have you ever thought about how Cinderella's step family survived economically? I mean, the father is never mentioned... except for the fact that he is dead. The family seems to be quite well off... and presumably, the father was a noble man... but what did he do? Was he rich? Was he a pimp? If he left a will, why is it that Cinderella did't get anything? Did the step mother get everything?
Then, all the women in the fairy tale were desperate to marry the Prince... and not one of them, save Cinderella was in love with him... they wanted the money and the glamour! Is that the kind of morals you want installed in your children? They were so desperate to marry the Prince that it wasn't funny.
One of the most stupid parts of the story was how the Prince used the glass slipper to find Cinderella. He followed the valet around the kingdom... hoping to find the person that could fit the shoe. Now, unless Cinderella had really BIG feet or really TINY ones, what is the probability that other people could fit the slipper? Then, he was SOOOOOOO in love with Cinderella that he couldn't remember what she looked like... one would have thought that instead of trying to fit the shoe on every female in the kingdom, he would merely have to look at them... instead of going through all the hassle of letting them try it on.
Despite the screwy value system and genetic miscoding in the story, nonetheless, I throughly enjoyed this version of Cinderella... it would have been a better production, had I seen it in the theatre... not on video.
