I appreciate when writers are deliberate with their messages and up-date issues in old storylines, but I fear when it's done like this, it doesn't help. This up-dated take on Cinderella is forced and dissatsifying. Feminism isn't about switching roles (spoiler: the prince now becomes the princess' side-kick), it's about empowering women, not about disempowering men. Also, if a female character is empowered in a new way in a classic story, that shouldn't mean that the story becomes worse, an empowered woman should improve the story (otherwise what message does that send?, plus it doesn't make sense). If the king could easily decide to make his daughter queen, it should have been easy for him to arrange for the future queen (Cinderella) to be a dressmaker. The whole conflict that makes her choose her passion over the prince seems constructed and unreal. In the end, the storyline forces the prince into the position that Cinderella rejected. That's a really unhealthy relationship dynamic. That's not what feminism is about.
Review of Cinderella
