Fractured Fairy Tales (TV Series) Cinderella Returns/Rumpelstiltskin Returns/Leaping Beauty (1962) User Reviews

LEAPING BEAUTY constitutes a big jump backwards . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 6/10 · 24 January 2024]

, , , when it comes to the Art of American Animation. Controversially out-sourced to a pernicious region South of the border of our U. S. Homeland, this "Fractured Fairy Tale" is broken beyond any possible repair with its stick-figure characters and fourth-rate backgrounds. Apparently there are no competent art schools below the Rio Grande, which is totally understandable given the ever-growing numbers of artists, philosophers, tourists, writers, painters, journalists, college students, athletes and notable celebrities constantly being slain there when there's an open season on guests 24/7/365 (or 366 in leap years, such as 2024). Mexico City spells hospitality as "hostility." Even Leon Trotsky took a dim view of this infernal swamp region, which he was prevented from fully articulating after local thugs smashed his brains with baseball bats.

This predictive forecast clearly is squarely aimed at . . .

[pixrox1 · 6/10 · 1 January 2024]

. . . Not-So-Great Britain's crumbling House of Windsor. Prince Edward the Mild of CINDERELLA RETURNS is drawn as a dead ringer for Real Life England's King Eddie the Eighth, who fled his decaying castle to wed a barren Commoner, which this film faithfully depicts. Anyone who's had practice with reading tea leaves, palms, palm trees and noggin bumps will quickly decipher and appreciate the portents offered to viewers-in-the-know through the myriad cracks emanating from Cinderella's eventual throne. Ruining her sister's life, raising a notorious sects offender son, chucking the heir apparent's Princess Die to a horrible death, having one grandson affecting the Fuhrer trappings of her own uncle Eddie, seeing the other crowned grandson losing handfuls of hair with each new heir--it's all there in this clairvoyant picture.

The plot of RUMPELSTILTSKIN RETURNS is very similar to . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 22 January 2024]

, , , WOMAN OF THE YEAR, the 1940 George Stevens flick starring Kathryn Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. In that live-action story, Ms. Hepburn's character decides that it will enhance her chances to win a coveted prize if she adopts a war orphan. Similarly, towards the end of RETURNS, the red-headed princess develops a sudden urge to monetize the offspring she has won in a previous contest by allowing him to reside with his legal family in the royal household for the first time. She's sure she'll be raking in big prize money bucks if her half-grown "son" simply takes up residence with her and her seldom-seen spouse. Fortunately, she proves to be a more intelligent and canny mom than the deranged dame depicted during WOMAN OF THE YEAR.