I don't understand why people keep trying to make new woke versions of cinderella when the perfect woke cinderella already exists:
Cinderella and the prince are genderswapped
Cinderella has a fairy godperson
The princess immediately recognizes Cinderella as the character she met at the ball, none of this shoe nonsense
The end is NOT them getting married, they just MET
Cinderella gets to the ball through magical intervention, but is still castigated by his fairy godperson to "do something" rather than just dreaming
The stepbrothers are not evil caricatures, nor is the stepmother
There is some acknowledgement of the confusion and strangeness that would result from changing an animal into a human for just one night in order to serve Cinderella
The royal family does take this opportunity to change the antiquated laws about requiring marriage for the heir under a certain timeline, but the story feels no need to tear down the fairy tale monarchical structure in order to do this
Some of the songs are absolute earworms
Cinderella is Elmo
