Cinderella (Disney film)/YMMV

• Anvilicious: All three of the stories in Dreams Come True have a character learn to Be Herself (Himself in Jac's case).
• Ear Worm: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!
  • Cinderelly, Cinderelly, night and day it's Cinderelly....
• Ensemble Darkhorse: The mice, especially Gus.
  • The Fairy Godmother, of course. It's surprising to think that she's only in one scene, and yet she's easily one of the most memorable things about the movie. It helps that her song is a huge Ear Worm, too.
• Even Better Sequel: A Twist in Time to both the original and Dreams Come True. It addresses many of the first movie's problems, like Prince Charming being a Flat Character, Cinderella being a Distressed Damsel, the whole "Whoever fits the Glass Slipper will marry me" plot point, and a few others. Therefore, some fans regard it as being even better than the original. Given that Dreams Come True was an obvious Poorly-Disguised Pilot while A Twist in Time was made with the explicit intent of being a feature-length film with higher production values, it definitely excels far past that.
• Fashion Victim Villains: The stepsisters.
• Girl Show Ghetto: The Disney Princess franchise pushed several Disney movies into this, but Cinderella might have fallen the most deeply. The Platinum Edition DVD has a girlier set of games than any other movie in the collection, and the Cinderella Trilogy Blu-ray/DVD Boxset comes packaged in a jewelry box.
  • In the UK, Cinderella DVDs actually got pulled out of the Disney Vault for a few weeks of 2011, so families anticipating the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton could share them with their daughters.
• Memetic Mutation: The scene in which Charming jumps off a balcony to escape his dad has become quite the favorite among gif makers.
• Mis Blamed: Fans of the Grimmified version of Cinderella tend to accuse Disney of toning the story down by skipping over the gory scenes. Actually, the version Disney chose to adapt ("The Original Classic by Charles Perrault") didn't have any gore to begin with.
• Moral Event Horizon: You can understand Lady Tremaine wanting her own daughters to come first, and even keeping the more beautiful Cinderella from going to the ball because she would outshine her stepsisters. But when she actually locks Cinderella in the tower even though her own daughters can't possibly fit the slipper, it's nothing but pure spite, even though her step-daughter marrying the prince would be a fine way to enter high society. Breaking the slipper is just icing on her ruthless cake by that point.
  • And if she didn't cross it there, then she definitely did in A Twist in Time when she poofs Cinderella into a twisted pumpkin carriage with Lucifer as its human driver, and attempts to get Lucifer to actually kill Cinderella! It's especially heinous because, up until that point, she was satisfied with just making Cinderella's life a living hell. She also has Anastasia posing as Cinderella to fool the prince. If anyone doesn't know, this is rape by deception (or at least it would be if this weren't a Disney movie)... and worse, she tries to use one of her own flesh-and-blood daughters for such shit, and right when Anastasia is becoming more and more sympathetic!
• Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: One of the good things to say about the sequels is that they actually made Anastasia and Cinderella's husband Prince Charming a lot more interesting. Not to mention the King, to some degree. Especially when he tells Anastasia about his own wife, and how they loved each other even though she was an...unconventional queen.
• Tastes Like Diabetes:
  • The montage in Cinderella II: Dreams Come True in which Cinderella defies such rules as keeping the windows shut and serving prunes for the banquet's dessert, while a teen singer sings about you should always follow your heart.
  • The first three minutes of Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, in which Cinderella recounts her rags-to-riches life to the viewers before she, Prince Charming, the mice, and the Fairy Godmother sing about how "Perfectly Perfect" things have been since the wedding.
• Tear Jerker: Cinderella's Dark Reprise of "More Than a Dream" when she is shipped out of the kingdom.
  • Anastasia's whole character arc is heartbreaking because she's getting all this love and attention - possibly the only real love and affection she's ever had - for something she didn't do.
• Values Dissonance: "Leave the sewing to the women". What's weird is that it's a female mouse who says this after Jacques happily volunteers to do the sewing! And then some male mice are clearly shown sewing later on anyway, making the line even weirder.
  • Could be that Jac is known to be bad at sewing but is very good at getting supplies, or the girl mouse realized later that they needed a few extra hands. Besides, some women take pride in having their territory. (No need to have a bunch of men-folk underfoot while cooking, you know. Of course, I come from a rather traditional family.)

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