Cinderella [2015] review

If you came looking for the Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, you can have it, but not until the very end of the credits. Ignoring the magic of the fairy godmother, this movie grounds us in reality and logic which I could appreciate, but did not find it very entertaining. Some humor attempts to enter around the half way point in the form of the Prince's painter, but that's only after both Cinderella's parents are dead, and her step mother and step sisters verbally abuse her. Again, I appreciate the logic on why Cinderella doesn't leave home, why the staff is dismissed after her father's death, but it is never explained on what the step mother does for money. As hinted to earlier, there are no songs from Walt Disney's 1950 Cinderella film present save for a few bars of Sing, Sweet Nightingale. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes can be heard during the credits as well. I don't know why these songs were not used during the actual movie and I don't know how this movie grossed so much money.