Cinderella review: A Gen Z-friendly fairytale

Prince Robert is frantically running around the town trying to find the girl whose foot fits the glass slipper found at the ball. Screenwriter-director Kay Cannon’s 2021 reworking of the Disney classic story of the girl from the basement does give the Prince his happily ever after, but not quite in the same way as the numerous previous versions of Cinderella. The script is more concerned with upending the tropes of the fairy tale, giving Cinderella greater agency and creating a new Gen Z-friendly happily ever after, than reinventing the story into something wildly audacious. The character with the most interesting arc is Robert, who goes from entitled man-child to woke, and possibly broke, unlike Ella’s feminist lite, captured in the track ‘Dream Girl’ with the lyric: ‘This treasure you found bury it The only way out marry it That shadow of doubt carry it Carry it down to your grave The world doesn't need another dream girl.’