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A Cinderella Story
2004
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A Cinderella Story
Positive Reviews
11
Negative reviews
41
Average Rating
1.8
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2.0
When not bland and indistinguishable from undistinguished teen TV, the film is unnecessarily coarse and dumbed down.
EW
4.0
Girls will love this fresh, funny, and sweet, update of the Cinderella story, and it might win some fans among their older siblings and parents, as we ..
Common Sense Media
0.5
The adult world turns madly around Oskar, making The Tin Drum a childs funhouse interpretation of the grownup absurd.
Austin Chronicle
0.0
If some films are made to order, the market researched A Cinderella Story has the stretch marks to prove it.
1.0
But no. At this point, the movie largely abandons the Cinderella ur text and simply becomes a bad teen film about cruel cliques, nasty Heathers and go ..
0.0
Time curls up and dies while this Hilary Duff vehicle wheels its weary, conventional way along.It should be considered as nothing more or less than ti ..
0.0
Duffs latest tween targeted exercise in wish fulfillment fantasy struggles mightily to squeeze itself into the trappings of a fairy tale, but this mod ..
1.0
The movie strains to bend the fairy tale to accommodate another coarse high school comedy of air headed teenage vixens ganging up on a meek little ang ..
The New York Times
2.0
A charmless affair, updating a classic tale with nary a hint of wit or genuine style.
2.5
With a few modern twists, Cinderella delivers a forgettable yet marginally likeable adaptation of the fairy tale classic.
Cinema Blend
2.0
A bibbidy bobbidy bomb... more pumpkin than gilded coach, more smelly sneaker than glass slipper.
One Guys Opinion
1.5
Lacks the guiltily pleasurable panache (and punch) of other recent chickadee flicks posited as protofeminist fairy tales.
Village Voice
2.5
What the world has been waiting for: a new, up to the minute version of the ever popular rags to riches fantasy.
Tv Guide
1.9
Desperately conceived by even the most insipid standards of contemporary teen queen cinema.
Usa Today
3.5
Jennifer Coolidge is so funny as the evil stepmother, she has so many good lines.
You Tube
2.0
Anyway, Duffs new film A Cinderella Story is a frustrating and convoluted modern fairy tale in which characters behave irrationally and without motiva ..
Eric Ds Nider
1.0
Theres absolutely no magic or spellbinding romance in this modern live action version of the oft told classic.
News Review
2.0
But the real pity is that the films sunny and bright style masks a dull, lifeless centre.
Shadows On The Wall
1.5
You might imagine her fathers death by earthquake is a terrible trial, but, this being a romantic teen comedy, the trauma is fleeting.
Pop Matters
3.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:mins Watchable comedy, thanks to the performances, though the film wastes a few opportunities to turn t ..
View London
1.3
Bridges is fun to watch, Fanning emerges as Hollywoods best 6 year old actress, and Rogerss talents are wasted.A likable drama within its limitations.
Cs Monitor
2.0
As far as recent teen chick flicks go, A Cinderella Story is superior to the pushily maladroit Sleepover and the unwatchable Ella Enchanted, but that ..
Film Journal International ..
1.9
It just depends on your particular mind set whether that makes the film sickeningly sweet and painfully predictable, or whether that makes it all the ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.9
Lackluster comedy ... could have been titled Youve Got Instant Messages.
Internet Reviews
2.5
Mean Girls its not; a plastic butter knife has more edge. But sometimes its nice to know your kids wont cut their fingers.
Boston
2.5
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Star Tribune
1.0
It would be good drama had it had any relevance to the actual movie.
Cinema Crazed
1.0
None of the characters have any substance, not even Duff, or Murray, and the plot drags on for so long and has so many pointless subplots, its impossi ..
Eye For Film
0.5
At worst, its an insult even to the intelligence of 12 year olds.
Flim Threet
2.0
The result is pure pumpkin, though fans of squeaky clean, helium voiced Hilary Duff might fall under its sickly sweet spell.
Bbc
3.1
Its better than one may be lead to expect, which is perhaps the best compliment of all.
The Movie Boy
2.0
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La ..
Calendar Live
1.9
Without an original idea hackneyed script and stereotypical performances this means the burden of the films success which faces formidable summertime ..
Hollywood
3.0
Cinderella Story takes a promising premise and lays a big fat pumpkin If youre in the mood to see a good teen flick with big laughs and a big heart, t ..
Seattle Pi
2.0
Unbearably packed with every ditzy cliche of teen girl fantasy, A Cinderella Story wallows in the saccharine sweetness of an insipid fantasy narrative ..
Coles Mithey
2.0
Poorly written, poorly acted exercise in banality and studio greed.
Oregon Live
1.5
Leigh Dunlaps script abounds in one liners of mild pedigree at best, and under the direction of Mark Rosman a timeless tale has been transformed into ..
Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
The weak plot may entertain little kids still glued to Lizzie McGuire reruns, but this just isnt really funny or interesting (even in an updated and k ..
E Online
1.9
This is clearly a movie that is aiming strictly for its target audience of young girls and for all I know, it might strike a chord with them.
Three Movie Buffs
2.5
For example, whenever I go to the bank, the teller requires my passport or driver licenses.I have never felt unhappy about such a request.
Kansas City
1.0
Of course theres a Prince Charming, hes Austin (Chad Michael Murray), who like all hunks in this sort of story is the broody and introspective type wh ..
Killer Movie Reviews
1.3
A Cinderella Story is not for adults, but that isnt much of shock.
Waffle Movies
3.0
In typical Lizzie spirit, its harmless, its sweet, its corny, its fun and it all comes out impossibly right.
Guide Live
2.5
Why this Detroit business decided to stay and expand in the city This 27 year old from Waterford wants people to know small businesses like his can ma ..
Freep
2.0
Rather than anything original or humorous or, heaven forbid, romantic developing from this fable, we get only tired clichs and worn out stereotypes.
Movie Metropolis
3.0
Its got enough humor to get a smirk about every five minutes, but also has enough cheesiness and stupidity that Ill have forgotten all about the movie ..
Filmcritic.com
1.0
Once upon a time there was a lovely fairy tale, then an evil curse was cast upon it and it was turned into this movie.
TheMovieChicks.com
3.0
Chad Michael Murray could be the next Johnny Depp, or he could be the next Luke Perry only time will tell.
IGN Movies
1.9
Duff is cute and chirpy; Murray is cute and bland, and the stepsisters squabble a lot. Ho hum.
Seattle Times
1.9
Duff needed to channel TV Lizzie for this role, but instead she gives us milquetoast.
Chicago Tribune
2.5
...the picture isnt the prince of a vehicle Duffs been looking for.
Suburban Chicago News
1.3
The sort of entertainment that makes you happy to be grown up and able to avoid the current onslaught of trite, lazy, unimaginative films aimed at twe ..
Miami Herald
3.0
This reviewers young daughter and her friend both anticipating third grade decided they enjoyed the film because the mushy stuff was kept to a minimum ..
0.5
A sloppy, idiotic mess that demonstrates nothing but contempt for anyone deluded enough to actually watch it.
2.0
In this awkward, updated fairy tale, the shallow, bland script drowns in so many cliches that it becomes tedious, except for the most devoted Lizzie M ..
Modamag.com
2.0
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Times Online
3.1
The premise scripted by Leigh Dunlap with a reported uncredited polish by Callie Khouri is largely preposterous, but Rosman embraces rather than evade ..
Los Angeles Daily News
2.0
A Cinderella Story makes so many good chocies, you wish you could like it more than you do.
Las Vegas Mercury
1.9
just about the same exact movie as all those other trifles aimed at the tween girl demographic that have been unleashed upon the unsuspecting moviegoi ..
Lowell Sun
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