Redundant and unnecessary.

Purely Joyful Movie!

Instant Favorite.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It's actually kind of interesting when old animated films have sequels that come out decades later like Cinderella or The Jungle Book or The Fox and the Hound because it's interesting to see what the world is like with improved animation technology and a new generation of voice actors who are talented enough to copy the earlier generation's voice. I guess the only reason why most of Disney's sequels are direct to video/DVD is because they don't want them to overtake new non-sequel films or the other way around. I must say that there really wasn't a lot of things going on in Cinderella, the original film from 1950. Most of the time was spent on the mice and the live action Cinderella remake from 2015 had a lot more of what the Cinderella fairytale being adapted was really about with more scenes of Cinderella meeting the prince before the ball and having a lot less time with the mice. However, I was really a lot more interested in both Cinderella sequels than the original Cinderella and its live action reboot.I get that a lot of people will be disappointed with the 2nd Cinderella because they actually wrote 3 different 22-minute stories. I don't have anything against this. I actually thought each of them were okay because it's cool to see different characters have their own new storyline, like Jaq worrying that Cinderella wouldn't need him or the other mice after marrying the prince. Both sequels actually did a good job with showing more of the prince that Cinderella married and Anastasia and giving them more depth to their personality. Before these 2 Cinderella sequels, Anastasia was the exact same character as Drizella. Now we know she actually feels lonely and wants to find true love, fearing that she may not be loved because of her background with her evil sister and mother and their mistreatment of Cinderella. Things must have not worked out between her and the baker from Cinderella 2 because they're no longer together at the start of Cinderella 3.Maybe the 1st sequel wasn't interesting enough for theaters, but I really think this film, the 2nd sequel, would have been very interesting to watch there. Unlike the sequels to The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, this sequel did not cheap out on the animation at all. Neither did Mulan 2 from what I've seen, but the big difference is that Cinderella knew how to make something good come from having its characters act out of character from what they originally were and Mulan didn't. The basic plot is that Anastasia steals Fairy Godmother's wand for Drizzella and Lady Tremaine so they can use it to go back to the past and make Cinderella's glass slipper larger for it to fit Anastasia's foot. Lady Tremaine also uses Fairy Godmother's wand to alter the prince's memory so he thinks he danced with Anastasia instead of Cinderella, but he then starts to suspect something is wrong after he touches Anastasia's hand and it feels different from Cinderella's hand.What makes this sequel very admirable is not only challenging Cinderella with working to get back the prince to make her dream come true after her evil stepmother Lady Tremaine stole Fairy Godmother's magic, but once again, that it redeems Anastasia and makes her as sympathetic and human as Cinderella. While Anastasia wants to find true love, she still doesn't want to steal it from Cinderella and lets Cinderella marry the prince at the end. Best of all, the paintings in the end credits show she was able to find and get with the baker from Cinderella 2 again. The film also managed to integrate the mice and Lucifer (the cat) into the plot without taking too much time away from Cinderella and Anastasia. This is truly a sequel masterpiece for the ages that shows just how much our storytelling for animated films has improved over the course of 5 decades. No, I'm still not going to pretend Cinderella 2 doesn't exist. It happened before the beginning of this 3rd film where they go back in time to change the ending of Cinderella.

How good it was. It was definitely a twist but beautifully done, and might had sled a few happy tears at the end. What I really enjoyed was they gave Cinderella more character, especially that part with her in the pumpkin. Not only is she kind and sweet but she was a bad ass side and didn't back down. Also, the react to the prince with the mice, I thought was dead on. I didn't care for the farce moments through but I'm not usually a farce person. There are a few things I disliked but it is a Disney film. Most of them were nit-pick like why did the prince fall in love. They kept on saying they knew by the touch of the hand, which I don't understand. But it is a fairy tale. And I wish they developed the prince more. Through the major thing I thought was strange was why didn't the stepmother turn her step daughter into Cinderella look alike in the first place. It would seem the obvious choice. Otherwise, it's a great movie.

As I may have mentioned already, I own this film alongside the original and 'Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True.' This is one Disney sequel I had forgotten about until fairly recently and like the second film, the Nostalgia Chick, who finds this the most tolerable out of all Disney sequels, prompted me to watch this.The film opens with a song that I found surprising because when I heard it in the Nostalgia Chick's 'Top 5 Least Awful Disney Sequels,' I thought it was just Cinderella and the Prince's song while I thought Anastasia and Drizella's part they sing as they wash the dishes (which I saw as a separate clip on YouTube) was a totally separate song altogether, whereas they were singing the complete opposite to Cinderella's part - likewise with Anastasia's solo part where she sings about someone who loves her being nearby. While the beginning of the main plot appears to be using recycled animation from the first film (for example Cinderella being locked in the room), it still makes sense to some extent. Like the second film, the pace is consistent with fluid and colourful animation for a direct-to-video/DVD release. As well as the pace and animation, the best aspects of this film were Anastasia and Drizella getting more screen time in this film than its predecessor, Jaq and Gus's hilarious re- enactment of Lady Tremaine stealing the Fairy Godmother's wand to undo Cinderella's spell, Anastasia turning into a Cinderella clone towards the end and Lucifer turning into a convincing human during the climax. I also found the Prince calling Cinderella 'Cinderelly' rather comical since he picked it up from the mice. The downsides of this film include the songs apart from the opening number being forgettable and Anastasia wanting to marry the Prince since she found love in 'Dreams Come True.' I even thought that if Anastasia had wanted to marry the Prince in the second film, then it would have made sense for her to fall for the baker in this film as a second chance.All in all, this film is slightly better than 'Dreams Come True' and just as good as the original. 8/10.

This is another one of many direct-to-video sequels to Disney animated features made in the past seventeen years, and the second sequel to the 1950 Disney version of "Cinderella". Both of these sequels were made over fifty years after the original. I saw 2002's "Cinderella II: Dreams Come True" earlier this month, and unsurprisingly, it didn't mean much to me. I didn't think this one, released five years later, would be any better until I saw that it had a significantly higher rating here, so even though it was another one of the Disney direct-to-video sequels, which are usually fairly weak, I had higher expectations for it than I did for the middle "Cinderella" film. While this film still can't match the original, it is above average.The Fairy Godmother's magic wand falls into the wrong hands when she accidentally drops it in front of Anastasia, who has been spying on the couple's wedding anniversary and witnessing the Fairy Godmother doing her magic, and by doing so, she has found out how Cinderella and Prince Charming got together in the first place! She takes the wand back to mother Lady Tremaine and sister Drizella, and when the Fairy Godmother comes to retrieve it, she is accidentally turned into a statue! Now realizing this wand's power, Lady Tremaine uses it to reverse time and return to the moment where the Duke came with the glass slipper! Before Cinderella gets downstairs, her stepmother uses the wand to change the size of the slipper to fit Anastasia! Since Cinderella is the one who danced with the prince, she is determined to prove that she is the one. After her cruel stepmother and stepsisters leave for the palace, Cinderella secretly goes there as well, with her mouse friends, Jaq and Gus, to assist her. She thinks Prince Charming will remember her from the ball, but Lady Tremaine erases her from his memory! The musical numbers in this sequel aren't that good if you ask me, and this already shows at the schmaltzy beginning, but the songs aren't exactly bad, either. At least they are sung by the characters, and are not like the pop songs performed by Brooke Allison and featured in "Cinderella II: Dreams Come True". The only exception here is "I Still Believe", performed by Hayden Panettiere, but we don't hear that one until the closing credits. The humour in this second sequel usually fails, with the sight gags that include conflict between Anastasia and Drizella, who make a huge mess in one of the palace rooms at one point. I don't think anything here made me laugh, not even the scenes involving the King, as much as this character made me laugh in the original 1950 Disney flick. However, I have no complaints about the animation in "Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time", and the story is the main thing that keeps this direct-to-video release from being boring, even if it wasn't 100% satisfying to me for some reason. It most certainly wasn't like I didn't care what was going to happen to the characters.As with any direct-to-video sequel to a Disney animated feature, some fans of the original theatrically released movie (in this case, one which was made and shown in theatres long before the invention of the home video) are bound to hate "Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time". However, some fans of the 1950 "Cinderella" movie could be surprised. The premise sounded interesting to me before I watched the film, as much as some viewers might be disgusted by it, and may be the main reason why this particular Disney direct-to-video sequel is better than most of the many others I've seen. I almost feel I could rate it a seven out of ten, but not quite, and if I did that, it would mean I would be giving it the same rating I gave the original. I'm sure many Disney fans would consider that inexcusable! Still, even if you've seen "Cinderella II" and don't like it, you might not want to just assume that "Cinderella 3" isn't any better.