Would it have killed you to have a couple talking mice?
We’re all familiar with the original story of Cinderella. The father of a beautiful girl remarries a horrible woman with two horrible daughters after his wife’s death, then dies himself. The evil stepmother forces Ella into indentured servitude and makes her sleep in the attic, where her only friends are talking rodents. Glass slippers, pumpkins, fairy godmothers… you know the rest. A new live-action version of Cinderella 65 years after the release of Disney’s original and animated “love story with music” offers a great chance to freshen up the most boring of the Disney princesses (and that’s saying a lot—I’m looking at you, Snow White). But no, it’s really just the exact same film…