I have no idea why so few adaptations of Cinderella don't just go with an obvious fix as to why looking for a shoe size makes so little sense; make the ball a masquerade. Everyone's in costume. That way, the Prince wouldn't know what she looks like, and the shoe thing becomes a lot more plausible.
The Muppets Cinderella did something like that , she didn't know he was the prince and he liked that she talked to him like a normal person since she thought he was a gardener. So he invites her and they plan to wear flowers so they can find each other but the flower plan is ruined when the king gives the flowers away as gifts so everyone wears the flowers. Then when the whole search happens he wishes that the shoe would fit her but thinks its not since everyone says she didn't go and he thought the girl he was looking for was a princess.
"Blinded by his love for his new wife." Okay I refuse to believe that he married the Bride of Frankenstein there of his own free will...someone clearly had a gun to his head
It would have been more interesting if she was ridiculously beautiful and him being too shallow to realize she's in fact a horrible person. But no, because beauty equals goodness, apparently.
Snl took this idea and rolled with it in their Disney Housewives sketch. It’s also implied that the prince only married Cinderella to add her one of a kind glass slippers to his extensive shoe collection.
I emailed Ellen Kennedy (one of the voice actors credited for this movie), and here's what she had to say to me about it. "I honestly don’t remember doing this but I must have. It would have been one of my very first v/o jobs. I know Mike Donovan hired me for a bunch of these straight to video versions of fairy tales and classic stories. I remember doing a Black Beauty but I don’t remember the other fairy tales I did. In answer to your second question, of course it was worth it! It may be terrible but it gave me my first opportunity to cut my teeth in this part of the industry. Those of us who voiced it still took pride in what we did and did it to the best of our ability at the time." Guess we all have to start somewhere.
By marrying her sisters off to handsome but poor lords Cinderella made sure that they'd always be poor and have to show up in court every year in order to scrape and bow before her as the queen. That is how I choose to believe the story really went.
That's only in the Grimm brothers version of the story, this and Disneys version was based off Charles Perrault version of the story where the sisters were given a free pass.
KaylaTheHyena And if it's a Disney retelling then you're lucky to have any biological parents let alone just idiot brain dead daddy. I think Disney has a mausoleum under their headquarters where they keep the remains of dead parents.
@@smb-c3po Helped by the fact that he called out on "Gentleman" here for being an awful father while admitting himself not being entirely wholesome either? :D
"Hey, in the original story the stepsisters got attacked and blinded by birds. That's too violent for children so what should we replace it with?" "they get handsome husbands" "but sir, I-" "Husbands!"
Don't forget that (in the original story) one of them cut off her toes and the other cut off her heel to fit the glass slipper, too. And the prince fell for it both times. So not only is he a Gentleman (tm) but he's also totes smart.
Actually that is only exclusive to the Grimm Brothers version of the story, what this film and the Disney version take from Charles Perrault version of the story (Disney even credited his version to him), were the step sisters were given a free pass, though it was said that one sister was actually a lot less mean then the other sister and her mother.
"You have been cruel to me for as long as we've lived together and made my life a living hell, but what the heck, I forgive you. Your remorse would not have been different if I didn't get to marry my prince or anything."
yeah and as to her face I've seen version where the ball was a masked ball and the story was first published in late 1690's when makeup became popular again and women begun to put white paint on face and powered and rose on cheeks and were reddening their lips(this is even earlier than 1690's. I mean look at queen elizabeth I) so if Cinderella was to be dressed in fashion then it was possible the price wouldn't have recognised her. Makeup changes one's face a lot
I remember finding Good Times movies at yard sales for (usually) free and everytime I would take them home and regret it and end up selling it at yard sales myself. It was a vicious cycle.
Have you ever tried printing out the covers of the films they were rip offs of and replaced the covers to trick people into buying them like Good Times usually does?
I love how out of place the father's clothes look like compared to the other characters. At the wedding he looks like a cowboy, or a 1930s reporter about to yell: "Cristal shooes? What a scoop!".
In one of the earlier versions of the tale(pre-Grimm), it was more of a semi-masquerade ball, in others they were celebrating the prince's coming of age. Only in later versions it became the whole brideshow-affair. Also, some versions mention a kind of veil, the fairy cast in order to make Cinderella unrecognizable to not only her family, but also other people, including the prince. Hence the importance of both the shoe and Cinderella's punctual departure.
I wonder if Goodtimes ever expected one of their shitty bootleg characters to get so popular because of an Internet reviewer that the character gets his own T-shirt. That's amazing. :D Awesome review once again.
It actually makes sense that the prince has prosopagnosia, since he cannot determine who cinderella is, but when he hears her voice, he instantly recognizes her. Also, that is the best ending to cinderella ever, that you described phelan, thanks.
I don't know who keeps complaining about the background info. That's the most interesting parts most of the time. Few reviewers these days take time to actually inform you about the thing they're making fun of. I really hope you keep it up, Phelous.
I think my favorite part of Phelous's review of these cash in cartoons is calling out the lazy fat jokes. It'd be one thing if they made one or two food jokes (didn't matter who the character was) but it's another thing when an entire character's persona is "They're fat they like food! Food food food!"
About this, in my "project" I have a character, one of the most important and powerful in the setting, who plays a big role in the story. But they also are pretty fat, and I wonder if it would be normal to make some jokes about them
Now you mention it, he kinda does look a little like Balthazar Cavendish from Milo Murphy's Law (which takes place in the same universe as Phineas and Ferb)
@@casualvanilla in other tellings of the story, Cinderella wore gold slippers, which didn't have heels. (High heels used to be for rich and powerful men, women wore flats). I'm just questioning which is more uncomfortable, gold slippers, or glass ones. 'Slippers' are defined as a type of loose, light indoor footwear, and you are right, it's an English term.
@@yippedoodah Actually, I wish that was the story. Instead of a ball, Cinderella goes to a slumber party, with glass bunny slippers and beautiful silk pajamas.
It's actually a translation issue. In the original story she wore slippers made from (squirrel) fur and somewhere along the line it was changed to glass (misstranslation maybe?) I found this out on an episode of QI with Stephen Fry.
The voice actress who plays as Goodtime's Cinderella and from the Goodtime's Alice is the same voice actress to play female Ranma from Ranma 1/2 ... what a small world
Am I the only one who thinks the entire story of Cinderella would be more realistic if the stepsisters were actually very gorgeous and talented, and SHE was the one who was unattractive, therefore giving her kind heart more of an impact? I mean, you're more likely to come across such a situation, really. But it's a fairytale, so I guess that's not the point. XD
That's probably better since its about goodness in the heart morally, so makes for a better version tbh. There is a version of the wicked stepsister and Gregory Mcguire wrote it and you feel sympathetic towards the stepsister more. He also re-wrote Alice, Snow White and of course Wizard of Oz in Wicked (Wicked is my favourite musical and book).
You're absolutely right, but back in the old days, these fairy tale writers were very superficial. If you were good, you had to be beautiful: beautiful princess, handsome prince. If you were bad, you were ugly, usually a witch. Now adays, it would be the other way around: the witch would be beautiful and the protagonists would be ugly. But back then, it was all about looks.
@@ExplorerDS6789 I don't know, as a society, we're still really fixated about looks, especially in Hollywood. It amuses me when a character in a film is described as being ugly or unattractive when in reality, no-one would describe them as such. Though I guess we don't necessarily equate beauty with absolute goodness to the extent that fairy tales did.
The (very debatable) idea that hard work is how people become rich was definitely not around back in the days the fairy tale of Cinderella was thought up, and in those same old days the term "gentleman" strongly implied a man did not work at all. The term "working class' didn't come out of nowhere, and it stood in contrast to the rich and genteel. Why GoodTimes felt the need to revise history by slipping in a little Horatio Alger-style BS is beyond me, but let's at least be conscious of how our understanding of these things has changed. Despite the underlying reality not changing quite so much.
This movie comes from the creators of Old Man HEEE-EEEE and was apparently made with crazy crack, clearly any accurate grasp of history or economics is beyond its grasp, left for those stanch defenders of accuracy, Dingo Pictures.
(Personally I would have found it funny, if this happened) Prince puts the slipper on a foot and it fits Old Man: The slipper fits me perfectly, we have to get married now! Prince: You're obviously not the woman I danced with, but if the shoe fits you must be her. Old Man: Yeah, I'm definitely that whoever... when do I get my money? Hhhhheeeeeeeeee!
When the fairy godmother said "Their deeds will not go unpunished," I had a feeling that they really would go unpunished. Thanks movie, for making me right to have low expectations.
Regarding Phelous' suggestion that Cinderella go to the prince herself, instead of wait for him to come to the house, she actually does in the original version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's _Cinderella_ (with Julie Andrews in the titular role). Hammerstein also got rid of the Fairy Godmother telling Cinderella to fetch her the pumpkin and animals, by having the Fairy Godmother ask Cinderella how she expects to go to the ball with no coach, and _she_ suggests transforming the pumpkin and the animals (something I wish more adaptations would do).
I have yet to watch the Julie Andrews version (I personally grew up with the Brandi version), but if it's like the 2013 Broadway version, I assume it's when she's still disguised as a peasant (again, assuming that element is in the Andrews version) and Cinderella suggests it as fun, lighthearted talk. But I personally don't see how her suggesting those things knowingly to her fairy godmother requires that much suspension of disbelief, especially since fairy tales all of magic is common knowledge even to those who don't use it.
Phelan Porteous fair point. I didn't see that before I posted and decided to leave it. though, and correct me if I'm wrong, didn't the original version kill him, too?
I actually don't remember reading about the father being a full-on "villain". Most of the renditions I've read make him a weak person who was overpowered by his wicked wife, too afraid to say anything to her.
Well, in "Into the Woods", he just didn't care about her as he was always drunk. But in some of the pantos, he's still around and more of a bumbling character who doesn't realize his new wife is after his fortune.
Just like the Disney version, I think she looks better in her "sooty rags" than with the "super ultra-beautiful deluxe magical makeover." Also, her name is supposed to be Ella (hence "Cinder Ella"), as she sweeps the cinders from the fireplace and gets covered in soot. So again like the Disney version, the other characters do indeed create a new nickname from her demeaning nickname instead of using her ACTUAL name.
@@WxIxLxLxIxAxMxSI do wonder if there was a meaning behind the memorable nickname in other languages since it was supposed to be an insulting nickname, which I had no idea until now.
The story of Cinderella would make a bit more sense if the ball was a masquerade ball. That would explain why the prince doesn't know what Cinderella looks like because everyone at the ball was wearing masks.
That's one way of doing it, the other way would be to have the Slipper used to narrow down the list of Woman to send to see him as letting the sole heir to the thrown wonder around to the homes of literally every eligible woman in the kingdom is not a good idea, and a glass slipper would only fit a small number very well as it has no flex,
I kind of like the idea of blind Prince because it would require the characters to develop more chemistry together through dialogue rather than go down the "love at first glance" route which so many versions of the story do. It would buck the fairytale trend a little, Possibly going so far as to have her transform back to her rags and the price not even notice if the adaptation is bold enough to change elements of the story in that way.
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I think Cinderella's might be Ella, and Cinderella was just made of Cinder + Ella. Its not an uncommon mockery to join someone's name with something thats offensive depending on the context.
In the animated Disney movie, Cinderella is her birth name, but the 2015 live-action film wanted to stick more with the tradional story so her name is Ella and got called Cinderella for sleeping near the fireplace and getting covered in ashes.
But they literally still kept calling her Cinderella in the narration at the end and the prince called her that too. If there was a correct name they should have used it
4:06 "His life was filled with beauty"........"Awkward....." Also, there are so many quotes to list them all XD This is one of the funniest videos ever
In some, her real name is Ella. However, in most tales, her birth name is Cinderella so it depends on which Cinderella story you read. It would tell you her names.
Good god this was funny. I burst out laughing when I noticed your Old Man shirt. Throughout the review it seemed to be mocking your rage. Your epilogue was perfect. Now we need a showdown between Old Man and Gentleman!
Dream on. Cinderella was beat to death by her wicked step mother and the events of the film are simply her dying thoughts and dreams... Everything she wanted to do with her life, what she knew she deserved rather than hatred and beatings... love. And the prince was the angel who carried her beyond the pale into heaven's embrace... WHAT DID YOU MAKE ME THINK, PHELOUS?! Also, sad but true, but a father's love for his wife can make him blind to the painfully obvious. Cinderella's more of a parable at the beginning... Doesn't make Gentle Man any less of a cheese for the neglect though... Unless he literally wasn't present.
"and cinderella saw to it that her sisters both married two handsome lords." those poor lords. they probably tried to blackmail the prince or something and that was their punishment.
Old Man gradually becoming less and less of an awful father by comparison after every one of these horrible things is hilarious. Also, even if we assume that Cindy the slave girl had an extremely petite shoe size, there still should be a bunch of females able to fit the shoe: little girls. Are we sure the Prince wasn't aiming for that? Cause I wouldn't put it past that gentleman.
Disney's Cinderella : I hope I can go to the ball. I want to have a fun, for at least one day....... Goodtime Cinderella : I want to go to the ball, because........I DON'T KNOW
That would make more sense, either pretty and good at faking kindness to get his money, or she should be rich and ugly and he is desperate to get her money either way it explains what they see in each other
16:22 If you're wondering or confused about what is on her plate, that she is eating well, that is a Sfogliatella, all known as (lobster tails) which is a pastry filled with cream.
Does anyone have an actual name in this movie? We have Cinderella, stepmother, step sisters, Gentleman, the Prince, the King and Queen, I didn't hear any names though.
Maybe it's supposed to represent the fact that these people could be anyone, that this story could be happening anywhere. Giving any character other than Cinderella a name would make it easier to pinpoint the culture that this story is meant to represent, ruining the ambiguity. ...or maybe the writers were just being lazy.
And honestly, one of my favorite tv adaptations of Cinderella, had her father pay for the neglect by working at the palace while his daughter was queen.
Maybe the Prince wanted a husband from the very start and he did all the foot wearing crap to win time and not get married at all with the excuse of "I can't remember her face father!"
22:38 - If I was Cinderella, I'd be like: Not sure if genuinely sorry for what they've done, or just feel the urge to apologize now when I am about to become their queen [and would be able to punish them].
9:03 That tower is leaning a bit precariously. Was the architect drunk when he designed this place? 10:19 Glad I wasn't the only one who thought the Prince looked liked cartoon Peter Venkman. 15:13 Is that even human? 16:05 AAAARGHHH! MAKE IT STOP!!!
A version of the story could get around the whole shoe thing being silly by making the ball a masquerade, that way the prince wouldn't know what Ella looks like. All he has to go on is her voice and her glass slipper
Senor Mustache would end up getting killed by listening to the Rice Crispie ghosts (LIKE A KIIIIING!), Gentleman probably wouldn't even realize there was a fight, and Old Man would lose the element of surprise because "HE WAS EXPECTED!" Leaving Beard Father to kill them all as part of one of his classic pranks.
I did wonder if anybody else made the connection to Venkman would have been a better film if the Ghostbusters turned up to bust the fairy godmother for messing with people's pets and livestock.
I did wonder if anybody else made the connection to Venkman would have been a better film if the Ghostbusters turned up to bust the fairy godmother for messing with people's pets and livestock.
OMG my mom was just passing and said the evil stepmother looked like Jafar in drag.
I can never unsee that piece of glory-ness! 🤣
matthatter56 I like your mom already...
I can totally see that XD Though to me, it looks like she could also pass for a less anorexic Madame Hecuba from the Jack & The Beanstalk anime
I thought she looked kinda familiar xD
Now I can't unsee it.
"She also has a locket with a picture of her favorite person - herself."
Cinderhead: "I'll never forget you.. me."
A jontron reference in a phelous good times review :) awesome
SuperKami Guru46 yay! Someone got my reference! :D
+Amanda K of course! That's one of my favorite reviews he's done ;)
I see you like JonTron too XD
+The Anime Obsessor absolutely!! He's hilarious 😆😆
I have no idea why so few adaptations of Cinderella don't just go with an obvious fix as to why looking for a shoe size makes so little sense; make the ball a masquerade. Everyone's in costume. That way, the Prince wouldn't know what she looks like, and the shoe thing becomes a lot more plausible.
Vosian Youre a genius!
Vosian I think a Disney channel live action did that
The Muppets Cinderella did something like that , she didn't know he was the prince and he liked that she talked to him like a normal person since she thought he was a gardener. So he invites her and they plan to wear flowers so they can find each other but the flower plan is ruined when the king gives the flowers away as gifts so everyone wears the flowers. Then when the whole search happens he wishes that the shoe would fit her but thinks its not since everyone says she didn't go and he thought the girl he was looking for was a princess.
That's pretty much what happens in "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"
@@EeveelutionStorm Nahh that version didn't use masks but the Broadway version did briefly.
Hilary Duff used a mask in her movie and it made sense.
"Blinded by his love for his new wife."
Okay I refuse to believe that he married the Bride of Frankenstein there of his own free will...someone clearly had a gun to his head
snakes3425 I t was a downgrade for sure
ROTFL
Clearly a love poison
It would have been more interesting if she was ridiculously beautiful and him being too shallow to realize she's in fact a horrible person. But no, because beauty equals goodness, apparently.
MAybe she gives good head
I think the reason the people at the ball were shocked is cause they thought the prince only liked men.
LMFAO
😅🤣
Wasn't there a Smosh video about the Disney Princes?
@@smb-c3po no one cares
Snl took this idea and rolled with it in their Disney Housewives sketch. It’s also implied that the prince only married Cinderella to add her one of a kind glass slippers to his extensive shoe collection.
I emailed Ellen Kennedy (one of the voice actors credited for this movie), and here's what she had to say to me about it.
"I honestly don’t remember doing this but I must have. It would have been one of my very first v/o jobs. I know Mike Donovan hired me for a bunch of these straight to video versions of fairy tales and classic stories. I remember doing a Black Beauty but I don’t remember the other fairy
tales I did.
In answer to your second question, of course it was worth it! It may be terrible but it gave me my first opportunity to cut my teeth in this part of the industry. Those of us who voiced it still took pride in what we did and did it to the best of our ability at the time."
Guess we all have to start somewhere.
She's probably grateful to be leaving this one off the ol' resume.
Interesting
You should've let her know of Fedele.
@@nathanschmitz2302 I don't even know what that is.
@@Bauglir100 I don't remember typing that. I think I meant let her know of Phelous
By marrying her sisters off to handsome but poor lords Cinderella made sure that they'd always be poor and have to show up in court every year in order to scrape and bow before her as the queen.
That is how I choose to believe the story really went.
I like the version of the story where their eyes are plucked out by birds.
+Honey Senapi (pico faustus) Is that the same version with them bring forced to dance with red hot iron shoes on till they died?
The hot iron shoes is Snow White IIRC.
warlockfemale ah that makes sense, must be mixing them up in my head
That's only in the Grimm brothers version of the story, this and Disneys version was based off Charles Perrault version of the story where the sisters were given a free pass.
Honestly, most fathers in fairytales either act like Old Man or Gentleman here
KaylaTheHyena And if it's a Disney retelling then you're lucky to have any biological parents let alone just idiot brain dead daddy. I think Disney has a mausoleum under their headquarters where they keep the remains of dead parents.
I prefer fairytale dads to be like Old Man 'cause he's hilarious.
The League of extraordinary Old Mans
@@smb-c3po Helped by the fact that he called out on "Gentleman" here for being an awful father while admitting himself not being entirely wholesome either? :D
@@FezFindie Old Man is actually hilarious.
The spinning dance animation is really epic, but nothing compared to the masterpiece that is Dingo's Esmeralda.
The spinning animation can only hope to be as epic as Dingo’s dancing Esmeralda
Kelley Hawley pp
Yes
@@NightridewithNikki All animation can only aspire tp such glory
"Hey, in the original story the stepsisters got attacked and blinded by birds. That's too violent for children so what should we replace it with?"
"they get handsome husbands"
"but sir, I-"
"Husbands!"
Don't forget that (in the original story) one of them cut off her toes and the other cut off her heel to fit the glass slipper, too.
And the prince fell for it both times. So not only is he a Gentleman (tm) but he's also totes smart.
Actually that is only exclusive to the Grimm Brothers version of the story, what this film and the Disney version take from Charles Perrault version of the story (Disney even credited his version to him), were the step sisters were given a free pass, though it was said that one sister was actually a lot less mean then the other sister and her mother.
"You have been cruel to me for as long as we've lived together and made my life a living hell, but what the heck, I forgive you. Your remorse would not have been different if I didn't get to marry my prince or anything."
yeah and as to her face I've seen version where the ball was a masked ball and the story was first published in late 1690's when makeup became popular again and women begun to put white paint on face and powered and rose on cheeks and were reddening their lips(this is even earlier than 1690's. I mean look at queen elizabeth I) so if Cinderella was to be dressed in fashion then it was possible the price wouldn't have recognised her. Makeup changes one's face a lot
And they died!
Or got married, same thing.
I remember finding Good Times movies at yard sales for (usually) free and everytime I would take them home and regret it and end up selling it at yard sales myself. It was a vicious cycle.
Its kind of like The Ring in that way. Except you dont get the death-penalty for keeping it in rotation.
well you do die on the inside when you watch a Good Times film
Wasnt putting the video back into rotation how people avoided getting killed by the video in the Ring?
The Infinite Cycles MUST continue...
Have you ever tried printing out the covers of the films they were rip offs of and replaced the covers to trick people into buying them like Good Times usually does?
I love how out of place the father's clothes look like compared to the other characters. At the wedding he looks like a cowboy, or a 1930s reporter about to yell: "Cristal shooes? What a scoop!".
In one of the earlier versions of the tale(pre-Grimm), it was more of a semi-masquerade ball, in others they were celebrating the prince's coming of age. Only in later versions it became the whole brideshow-affair. Also, some versions mention a kind of veil, the fairy cast in order to make Cinderella unrecognizable to not only her family, but also other people, including the prince. Hence the importance of both the shoe and Cinderella's punctual departure.
FelisTerras
And it was multiple parties every day for 3 days
I wonder if Goodtimes ever expected one of their shitty bootleg characters to get so popular because of an Internet reviewer that the character gets his own T-shirt. That's amazing. :D
Awesome review once again.
Would love to see their reaction to it, but sadly the animators got caught in the rain, they're completely useless now
shouldn't have read the joke while eating, I'm completely useless now too o.o
yeah
Goodtimes is completely useless now. *throws into the trash*
You're ChaosSandwich Sandwich!
I always thought that this Cinderella had a really cute design in her rag dress.
I've never actually seen a Cinderella adaptation where the father is a villain. I'd be interested to.
FollowTheWizard try ella enchanted the book he isn't the main villain but he comes quite close
Aschenputtel 2010. It’s a really great movie. Just make sure you get it with English subtitles.
In the original story from the Grimm Brothers, he is basically as shit as the step-mother
Anna: Shoe size doesn't matter
Cinderella: EXCUSE YOU!
Elsa & Fairy godmother: Why am I here?
It actually makes sense that the prince has prosopagnosia, since he cannot determine who cinderella is, but when he hears her voice, he instantly recognizes her.
Also, that is the best ending to cinderella ever, that you described phelan, thanks.
I don't know who keeps complaining about the background info. That's the most interesting parts most of the time. Few reviewers these days take time to actually inform you about the thing they're making fun of. I really hope you keep it up, Phelous.
I think my favorite part of Phelous's review of these cash in cartoons is calling out the lazy fat jokes.
It'd be one thing if they made one or two food jokes (didn't matter who the character was) but it's another thing when an entire character's persona is "They're fat they like food! Food food food!"
Scott Stiener: "HE'S FAT!"
About this, in my "project" I have a character, one of the most important and powerful in the setting, who plays a big role in the story. But they also are pretty fat, and I wonder if it would be normal to make some jokes about them
Carefull not to get your shirt wet Phelous or it will be completly useless
The tag should read "Dry clean only"
Damn and here I thought I was the first to make that joke.
Sora Song you really had to correct him/her?
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Then he'd have to take it off and we'd get to see his sexy body.
Why does "Gentleman" look like he belongs in Phineas and Ferb?
Emily Fuller YOU MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD THAT I GREW A SIX PACK
This one looks like Chief Quimby.
Now you mention it, he kinda does look a little like Balthazar Cavendish from Milo Murphy's Law (which takes place in the same universe as Phineas and Ferb)
Lmao
@@ArendAlphaEagle 🤣yep
It's so weird to me that every adaptation of Cinderella seems to put her in high heels but insist on calling them "slippers".
Maybe it's just an older English thing. Or maybe because glass slippers sound less painful than glass heels.
@@casualvanilla in other tellings of the story, Cinderella wore gold slippers, which didn't have heels. (High heels used to be for rich and powerful men, women wore flats). I'm just questioning which is more uncomfortable, gold slippers, or glass ones. 'Slippers' are defined as a type of loose, light indoor footwear, and you are right, it's an English term.
@@maximusdork3336 Cinderella and the glass bunny slippers
@@yippedoodah Actually, I wish that was the story. Instead of a ball, Cinderella goes to a slumber party, with glass bunny slippers and beautiful silk pajamas.
It's actually a translation issue. In the original story she wore slippers made from (squirrel) fur and somewhere along the line it was changed to glass (misstranslation maybe?) I found this out on an episode of QI with Stephen Fry.
Lol, that single ladies joke. You never cease to amaze dude. 😂
14:32 Derek from the Swan Princess called he wants his line back where he values beauty over personality. :)
15:08 I don't know why, but he reminds me of a Megaman boss character.
What else is there?
She's not a Swan but she did "Duck" out on him.
frankly I would’ve gone with that Warrior princess with the armor on her face
The voice actress who plays as Goodtime's Cinderella and from the Goodtime's Alice is the same voice actress to play female Ranma from Ranma 1/2 ... what a small world
So getting them wet won't make them useless, but instead make them... Have a sex change ?! Da hell ?!
And the voice actor for the prince sounds like kuno from ranma 1/2 lol
Am I the only one who thinks the entire story of Cinderella would be more realistic if the stepsisters were actually very gorgeous and talented, and SHE was the one who was unattractive, therefore giving her kind heart more of an impact? I mean, you're more likely to come across such a situation, really. But it's a fairytale, so I guess that's not the point. XD
Ayuuk That feels like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, but it makes sense.
That's probably better since its about goodness in the heart morally, so makes for a better version tbh. There is a version of the wicked stepsister and Gregory Mcguire wrote it and you feel sympathetic towards the stepsister more. He also re-wrote Alice, Snow White and of course Wizard of Oz in Wicked (Wicked is my favourite musical and book).
You're absolutely right, but back in the old days, these fairy tale writers were very superficial. If you were good, you had to be beautiful: beautiful princess, handsome prince. If you were bad, you were ugly, usually a witch. Now adays, it would be the other way around: the witch would be beautiful and the protagonists would be ugly. But back then, it was all about looks.
I know the the third Disney one gave one of the stepsister’s a redemption arc. Would be cool to see something like this in an adaptation
@@ExplorerDS6789 I don't know, as a society, we're still really fixated about looks, especially in Hollywood. It amuses me when a character in a film is described as being ugly or unattractive when in reality, no-one would describe them as such. Though I guess we don't necessarily equate beauty with absolute goodness to the extent that fairy tales did.
The (very debatable) idea that hard work is how people become rich was definitely not around back in the days the fairy tale of Cinderella was thought up, and in those same old days the term "gentleman" strongly implied a man did not work at all. The term "working class' didn't come out of nowhere, and it stood in contrast to the rich and genteel. Why GoodTimes felt the need to revise history by slipping in a little Horatio Alger-style BS is beyond me, but let's at least be conscious of how our understanding of these things has changed. Despite the underlying reality not changing quite so much.
This movie comes from the creators of Old Man HEEE-EEEE and was apparently made with crazy crack, clearly any accurate grasp of history or economics is beyond its grasp, left for those stanch defenders of accuracy, Dingo Pictures.
(Personally I would have found it funny, if this happened)
Prince puts the slipper on a foot and it fits
Old Man: The slipper fits me perfectly, we have to get married now!
Prince: You're obviously not the woman I danced with, but if the shoe fits you must be her.
Old Man: Yeah, I'm definitely that whoever... when do I get my money? Hhhhheeeeeeeeee!
I read that in Old Man's voice.
Beautiful 😊
🎵A "HeeeEEeeEEeeEeEEeH" is a wiiish your heart maaakes🎵
When the fairy godmother said "Their deeds will not go unpunished," I had a feeling that they really would go unpunished. Thanks movie, for making me right to have low expectations.
Regarding Phelous' suggestion that Cinderella go to the prince herself, instead of wait for him to come to the house, she actually does in the original version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's _Cinderella_ (with Julie Andrews in the titular role). Hammerstein also got rid of the Fairy Godmother telling Cinderella to fetch her the pumpkin and animals, by having the Fairy Godmother ask Cinderella how she expects to go to the ball with no coach, and _she_ suggests transforming the pumpkin and the animals (something I wish more adaptations would do).
Dsneybuf that is fucking stupid. She shouldn't know that much about magic.
I have yet to watch the Julie Andrews version (I personally grew up with the Brandi version), but if it's like the 2013 Broadway version, I assume it's when she's still disguised as a peasant (again, assuming that element is in the Andrews version) and Cinderella suggests it as fun, lighthearted talk. But I personally don't see how her suggesting those things knowingly to her fairy godmother requires that much suspension of disbelief, especially since fairy tales all of magic is common knowledge even to those who don't use it.
I haven't seen _Cinderella_ on stage, but that sounds close.
"this is why other versions make him an upfront villain"
Or, you know...dead.
That was the next thing I said.
Phelan Porteous fair point. I didn't see that before I posted and decided to leave it.
though, and correct me if I'm wrong, didn't the original version kill him, too?
***** so the step-mother got remarried, too?
I actually don't remember reading about the father being a full-on "villain". Most of the renditions I've read make him a weak person who was overpowered by his wicked wife, too afraid to say anything to her.
Well, in "Into the Woods", he just didn't care about her as he was always drunk. But in some of the pantos, he's still around and more of a bumbling character who doesn't realize his new wife is after his fortune.
Imagine Phelous washing his "Old Man" shirt:
"My shirt's all wet! It's completely useless now! HeEeEeEeE"
Just like the Disney version, I think she looks better in her "sooty rags" than with the "super ultra-beautiful deluxe magical makeover." Also, her name is supposed to be Ella (hence "Cinder Ella"), as she sweeps the cinders from the fireplace and gets covered in soot. So again like the Disney version, the other characters do indeed create a new nickname from her demeaning nickname instead of using her ACTUAL name.
She didn't have an actual name in the original, but yeah, "Cinderella" was supposed to be a cruel nickname her step sisters gave her.
@@WxIxLxLxIxAxMxSI do wonder if there was a meaning behind the memorable nickname in other languages since it was supposed to be an insulting nickname, which I had no idea until now.
Personally I find the idea of killing off the father the best choice when making the adaptation. Makes rest of the story seem more plausible.
Phelous' pure hatred for the Gentleman warms my heart
I love how so many of these adaptations forget that Cinderella isn't her real name.
Didn't the recent live action Disney version mention her name is Ella when she talk to the prince?
The story of Cinderella would make a bit more sense if the ball was a masquerade ball. That would explain why the prince doesn't know what Cinderella looks like because everyone at the ball was wearing masks.
I always thought that the shoe was magically configured to fit Cinderella's feet only.
making the prince blind would make a bit more sense.
That's one way of doing it, the other way would be to have the Slipper used to narrow down the list of Woman to send to see him as letting the sole heir to the thrown wonder around to the homes of literally every eligible woman in the kingdom is not a good idea, and a glass slipper would only fit a small number very well as it has no flex,
Thanotos Omega yeah...
I kind of like the idea of blind Prince because it would require the characters to develop more chemistry together through dialogue rather than go down the "love at first glance" route which so many versions of the story do.
It would buck the fairytale trend a little, Possibly going so far as to have her transform back to her rags and the price not even notice if the adaptation is bold enough to change elements of the story in that way.
ChaosSandwhich exactly, but you know.. PRINCES AND PRINCESS MUST BE PREFECT EEEHHEHEHHHHH
Bread Lord sadly true
The best shirt ever. HHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Just don't get it wet.
There are also Old Man mugs available at his store. Too bad you can never use them for drinking.
nutubesux XD They'd be useless after all!
@@clarelabellerose And disturbing.
Yeah… or else it would be completely useless.
HHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
still want a version that ends with: "now you can join my new harem of size 6s."
OMG WHERE CAN I GET AN OLD MAN SHIRT?!!?
Same! I want one!
Unfortunately I doubt it's likely that he'll make it an actual merchandise as there are probably copyright issues. But man, that'd be cool.
HHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! 8D
GoodTimes went bankrupt...
here you go:
www.zazzle.com/old_man_shirt-235044092575096890
Or if you don't trust links, go to phelous.com (it's in the description) and go to the phelous store (somewhere on the right of the website) and you can find it there.
I think Cinderella's might be Ella, and Cinderella was just made of Cinder + Ella. Its not an uncommon mockery to join someone's name with something thats offensive depending on the context.
Wasn't that mentioned on last year's version?
They should do a version with the girls from Chez Apocalypse. Call it CinderNella. Featuring Linkara as Fairy Fat Grandma.
In the animated Disney movie, Cinderella is her birth name, but the 2015 live-action film wanted to stick more with the tradional story so her name is Ella and got called Cinderella for sleeping near the fireplace and getting covered in ashes.
I'm prettyyyyy sure she was named after that rock band from the 80s.
But they literally still kept calling her Cinderella in the narration at the end and the prince called her that too. If there was a correct name they should have used it
I use to have this movie and watch it all the time! I remember loving it...God...I was a dumb kid.
No, you weren't dumb. To be honest, this is one of the most faithful adaptations of the story.
Hahahaha, I had it too.
same here
I had it too. It's incredibly cheap and stupid, but I still liked its simple charm.
I did the same, I hate kid me.
"I told my parents no fat chicks" LMFAO
That awkward moment when Phelous does a better job with lip-syncing than the movie.
4:06 "His life was filled with beauty"........"Awkward....."
Also, there are so many quotes to list them all XD
This is one of the funniest videos ever
Is it just me or does the Stepmother look like Frankenstein's bride...
The BEST thing about your reviews, Phelous, are all of the little jokes and sight gags. They're so fun.
I nearly choked from laughing so hard at that bit with the musicians. That one caught me off guard.
The single ladies joke at 18:39 kills me everytime! XD
In some, her real name is Ella. However, in most tales, her birth name is Cinderella so it depends on which Cinderella story you read. It would tell you her names.
Actually, when you actually her actually you get actually.
@@phelous, O ACTUALLY?
Actually-ception!! Or something 🤷♀️🙃
So who is the worse father: beauty's Old Man or Cinderella's Gentleman?
Oh, Gentleman BY FAR. Old Man's cluelessness wasn't maliciously impacting his children until he sold beauty off to the goomba warthog.
That's a hard question I'd say both.
Good god this was funny. I burst out laughing when I noticed your Old Man shirt. Throughout the review it seemed to be mocking your rage. Your epilogue was perfect. Now we need a showdown between Old Man and Gentleman!
"Now leaving for the bathroom -- the Prince!" Lololol, this video is not safe for work.
They made us watch this at my daycare as a good. I almost cried it was that bad.
Eliza_Da_Hamilfan HAMILTONNN
Dream on.
Cinderella was beat to death by her wicked step mother and the events of the film are simply her dying thoughts and dreams... Everything she wanted to do with her life, what she knew she deserved rather than hatred and beatings... love.
And the prince was the angel who carried her beyond the pale into heaven's embrace...
WHAT DID YOU MAKE ME THINK, PHELOUS?!
Also, sad but true, but a father's love for his wife can make him blind to the painfully obvious. Cinderella's more of a parable at the beginning...
Doesn't make Gentle Man any less of a cheese for the neglect though... Unless he literally wasn't present.
I like to think the step mother murdered both of them in their sleep and took their house.
I don't think Lady Tremaine is quite THAT wicked...
Zucca Xerfantes she could be.
+Honey Senapi (pico faustus) She did make Nostalgia Critic's head explode. Wait... that's not very wicked, is it?
Zucca Xerfantes I thought it was
Problem with old man shirts is, you cant wash them, they'd become completely useless!
Sarmin Just dry-clean the shirt but it would still be completely useless now! HHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Who knew Peter Venkman was a prince.
You mean Coulie Venkman!
@@vivimariefedorov7374 *Coulier
On the other hand, if it's Music Venkman...
"The stepmother and stepsisters should be dragged out and shot."
@@vivimariefedorov7374 It wasn't that funny
11:57 Oh, hey, Eatty found Jafar's headwear
XDDDDD
I never knew
Jafar's mind control helmet.
"and cinderella saw to it that her sisters both married two handsome lords."
those poor lords.
they probably tried to blackmail the prince or something and that was their punishment.
I must say I love the way he said "He kept the shoes." It's so intimidating as well as funny
"Sometimes we all just need a little magical vengeance." I hear that.
Is Cinderella's father Inspector Gadget in disguise?
Always on duty!
Not even inspector gadget is this oblivious.
Those step-sisters were actually very pretty; I don't know what the Prince's problem is.
Old Man gradually becoming less and less of an awful father by comparison after every one of these horrible things is hilarious.
Also, even if we assume that Cindy the slave girl had an extremely petite shoe size, there still should be a bunch of females able to fit the shoe: little girls. Are we sure the Prince wasn't aiming for that? Cause I wouldn't put it past that gentleman.
well that got suddenly sinister
you saw the one on the beauty and the beast anime right? phelous' comparisons there was great 😄
Disney's Cinderella : I hope I can go to the ball. I want to have a fun, for at least one day.......
Goodtime Cinderella : I want to go to the ball, because........I DON'T KNOW
Omg Cinderella rolling on the pumpkin cracked me up, I can't stop laughing at it!
Wouldn't it make more sense for the stepmother to be beautiful in these stories? At least then it would make sense as to why the dads are so stupid...
That would make more sense, either pretty and good at faking kindness to get his money, or she should be rich and ugly and he is desperate to get her money
either way it explains what they see in each other
Jaded Janus it wouldn't make more or less sense.
I'd have it so that she seems nice and loving, but when he dies/leaves her true colours come out
@@PlaystationSimmer Ever After did that pretty well tbh
16:22 If you're wondering or confused about what is on her plate, that she is eating well, that is a Sfogliatella, all known as (lobster tails) which is a pastry filled with cream.
Wish I could travel by pumpkin, but there never seems to be a fitting occasion for such extravagance. :(
Does anyone have an actual name in this movie? We have Cinderella, stepmother, step sisters, Gentleman, the Prince, the King and Queen, I didn't hear any names though.
Maybe it's supposed to represent the fact that these people could be anyone, that this story could be happening anywhere. Giving any character other than Cinderella a name would make it easier to pinpoint the culture that this story is meant to represent, ruining the ambiguity.
...or maybe the writers were just being lazy.
Your reviews of these terrible movies fill me with such happiness
And honestly, one of my favorite tv adaptations of Cinderella, had her father pay for the neglect by working at the palace while his daughter was queen.
thats the most I laughed in ages, when she got on the pumpkin and rolled to the prince!! lol
Maybe the Prince wanted a husband from the very start and he did all the foot wearing crap to win time and not get married at all with the excuse of "I can't remember her face father!"
That single ladies reference killed me. Lol
We need Gentleman and Old Man going on wacky adventures.
22:38 - If I was Cinderella, I'd be like:
Not sure if genuinely sorry for what they've done, or just feel the urge to apologize now when I am about to become their queen [and would be able to punish them].
Or do what some versions did...have her bird friends peck their eyeballs out.
Wait..that intro... "Based SOLE-ly on Shoe Size." Damnit Phelan, I thought you were better than that!
IIn all seriousness good review as always.
Finally, an official spelling! Four H's, eleven E's, three exclamation points. (No, Doug, they're not called not 'explanation points.')
Come on, everybody! Do the Retirement!
At least in Disneys version the prince didn't attend the shoe fitting so they didn't make it look stupid that he wasn't looking for her face.
YOOOOOO Phelan you give me such joy, your humor super spot on.
I literally almost did a spittake at Cinderella riding the pumpkin to the ball (especially with the screaming)
9:03 That tower is leaning a bit precariously. Was the architect drunk when he designed this place?
10:19 Glad I wasn't the only one who thought the Prince looked liked cartoon Peter Venkman.
15:13 Is that even human?
16:05 AAAARGHHH! MAKE IT STOP!!!
And the Good Times saga continues.
The male lead has false eyelashes from the looks of his artwork on the cover.
so pretty .
You should be proud of yourself, Phelous. You've made "Old Man" i living legend! >:-D
When I was a child, I remember feeling cheated when the TV schedule said they were going to show the Disney "Cinderella" and they came up with this.
Gentleman needs to interact with Old Man
Watch after the credits.
+ PrimusVsUnicron - I wanna see Old Man interact with Wabuu
Remember guys always watch the entire video😁 even after the credits 😜
Goodtimes Entertainment: Why 1984 WILL be like 1984.
I really appreciate the fact that you research the companies behind these movies. It's more effort than some reviewers would go to.
17:23 THANK YOU! No body ever seems to point that major plot hole out.
A version of the story could get around the whole shoe thing being silly by making the ball a masquerade, that way the prince wouldn't know what Ella looks like. All he has to go on is her voice and her glass slipper
Good times are here again. Also, a T-Shirt of Old Man? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!
If you want one:
www.zazzle.com/phelous
There's an entire Old Man collection. Oh my fuck
+Phelan “Phelous” Porteous I absolutely love your videos keep up with the amazing work :)
Yeah, I'm heading over to Zazzle!
warning!!!!! Old Man T-Shirt are completely useless upon contact with water
The glass slippers were apparently a gift to Cinderella from the Fairy Godmother, but they forget to mention that in so many versions.
the dress would have been a better gift. glass shoes suck as a gift.
Because originally they were made from squirrel fur and they forgot that part too...
+Ueda Yuuji Fan
That's actually false.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/glass-slippers/
Here's your free consolation prize: uncomfortable as hell shoes. Enjoy dancing.
"...so what was [[Cinderella's]] real name?..."
The prince kinda looks like the cartoon-Venkman. Also, we need epic showdown between The Old Man and The Gentleman!
Nah. We need a fatal four way between Old Man, Beard Father (or Beardia), Gentleman and Senor Mustache.
BOOK IT PHELOUS!
Senor Mustache would end up getting killed by listening to the Rice Crispie ghosts (LIKE A KIIIIING!), Gentleman probably wouldn't even realize there was a fight, and Old Man would lose the element of surprise because "HE WAS EXPECTED!"
Leaving Beard Father to kill them all as part of one of his classic pranks.
Ally Gator Animator And in the end, it was all part of the plan of Snowden the Snowman.
I did wonder if anybody else made the connection to Venkman
would have been a better film if the Ghostbusters turned up to bust the fairy godmother for messing with people's pets and livestock.
I did wonder if anybody else made the connection to Venkman
would have been a better film if the Ghostbusters turned up to bust the fairy godmother for messing with people's pets and livestock.