A Cinderella Story

Teen Queen Hilary Duff stars in this modern day re-make of the Cinderella Fairytale.

With a cell phone instead of a glass slipper (with Telecom’s $10 TXT, of course!!), a rundown convertible in lieu of pumpkins and based in a drought ridden LA suburb, this movie was predictable (as it should be, hell, everyone knows the Cinderella story, right?) and so sugary sweet as to make you want to throw up.

But then when you look at it in context – I watched it with my 3 daughters and one of their friends – aged from 5 to 9 years old – you discover that it’s one of the best movies ever made.

Not a peek out of them for a whole 90 minutes. No one even needed to go to the toilet, no one complained when the popcorn ran out. It was truly amazing.

I don’t know if it was the story or Hilary Duffy that wove the magic, but this is a good wholesome movie, with some great themes, that I’d recommend to anyone with daughters.