THREE WISHES FOR CINDERELLA
One of these fantasy movies proving again that special FX are not crucial
A beautifully well constructed movie. From the very beginning, the destiny of Cinderella and the prince is sealed. When one of her friends servant asks her what she would like to have back from town, she simply answers: \\"Just bring me the first thing that will fall on your nose.\\" (phrase actually taken from the brothers Grimms'tale.) And so it does happen, with the help of the prince, though, who, wanting to make a joke on the servant, shoots an arrow targetting a nest on a tree branch. He doesn't miss (for something he's the prince) and the nest falls on the servant's head. He finds inside three chestnuts on a twig. Three chestnuts because, as the original title says: \\"Three Chestnuts for Cinderella.\\" Each contains what will make Cinderella happy, closing the loop perfectly. Libuse Safrankova is absolutely cute and wonderful in her role, performed with talent. Pavel Travnicek, who plays the prince isn't that good, but his awsome outfits hide a bit his lack of talent. The stepmother is \\"awfully perfect\\", and even funny when she wears that unbelievable umbrella hat with ridiculous dignity.    My five year old son watches this movie since he's three and never stopped loving it, although he's now used to 3D animation movies such as those from Disney-Pixar and Dreamworks. \\"Three Wishes for Cinderella\\" is definitely special, beautiful and perfect. Don't miss it.    For an extra information, the German version (\\"Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel\\") has been digitally remastered. Not the yellow box version, but the one which presents Cinderella and the Prince on the cover, with a blue label: \\"DIGITAL überarbeitete FASSUNG\\" (digitally remastered). The entire movie has been cleaned of all its scratches, the colour enhanced, thus recovering its original aspect of the 1974 release. The audio has not been forgotten as it now offers a new digital AC3 (2 channels) quality. Available also on Amazon, but from Germany. That means: for zone 2 (or region free) players only.