7 Cinderella Adaptions Rated From Best to Worst

Hey, kids! What are your plans this evening? If you answered, “Binge on Cinderella movies” then we’ve just read your mind! But with so many out there, it can be really difficult to decide which Cinderella movie you should watch because you’d actually enjoy it and which ones you’d hate but will still watch ‘cause there’s nothing else to do. Leave it to Brainberries to help you make the most informed decisions. For this article, we’re ranking these Cinderella movies from best to worst in order to fill you with a deep sense of dread as you go down the list. You’re welcome!

1. Cinderella (1950)

This Disney animated classic – the highest grossing movie of 1950 and winner of two Oscars –

still serves as an inspiration for contemporary movies, including Frozen. And Frozen Fever. And Olaf’s Frozen Adventure. And Frozen II. And all of the additional Frozen featurettes, sequels and prequels that will be thrust upon us in the upcoming years. What really makes this stand out is Cinderella’s mice friends who sing empowering things like, “Leave the sewing to the women, you go get some trimming.” The only thing that keeps this movie from getting the maximum 82 thumbs up is the lack of smoking and drunken debauchery commonly featured in Disney cartoons at the time.

2. Ever After (1998)

As much as we would like to declare this version of Cinderella a huge pile of human excrement, even our level of cynicism has its limits. Set in the Renaissance and featuring Leonardo Di Vinci in a weirdly prominent role, critics universally praised Ever After for its acting, lead by Drew Barrymore as the strong-willed Danielle de Barbarac (actually calling her Cinderella would have been pretty corny) and Anjelica Huston as the wicked stepmother. The only real knock is that this movie doesn’t contain mice singing about how sewing is women’s work.

3. A Cinderella Story (2004)

This movie features Hillary Duff at her height of teen popularity, back when Eminem conceded in his song “Ass Like That” that her then-under aged rear end was too young for him to admire. Anyway, this film is 100% pure garbage for so many reasons. She’s saving up money for Princeton by working at a diner? With tuition being more than $40,000/year at the time of the movie, we hope she’s got a decade to spare. Her secret online pen pal coincidentally ends up being her high school’s star quarterback who has an offer from USC? Preposterous! Her dad dies in an earthquake. The setting is San Bernardino, making that the only plausible thing about this movie.