Girls are watching Cinderella III, compliments of their maternal grandmother. I pass through the room picking up dirty socks and other artifacts and glance at the TV.
Me: Is that one of the stepsisters? Is she marrying the prince in this one? Oh my. That’s funny.
Sophie: (deadly serious) IT’S NOT FUNNY FOR CINDERELLA.
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Cinderella 3? I thought the story was kind of done in the first installment.
Sophie is must be part of the Princess Protecting Mafia. A dirty job, yada yada yada…
Once upon a time, there was a thoughtful and intense child named Sophie. She was serious, very serious, about her fairy tales. And then one day, her mother erred gravely by foolishly commenting in a lighthearted fashion about Cinderella III. So the very next time Sophie played doctor to her mother’s patient, she decided to punish her mother for her unforgivable fairy tale transgression by choosing to be Scary Doctor rather than his alter ego Comforting Doctor. And Sophie’s poor mother was never seen again. Rumors flew about some sort of a — wait, let me verify that this is correct — yes, it was, it was a wire hanger found right near the spot where Mr. Pipe used to hang out by the shed, but these rumors could never be confirmed. The End.
Alas, my aching heart … it was Mr. Pipe, in the shed, with a coat hanger. Dastardly tale.
Can’t say we are clueless in the Berkshires. Hehehehe …
Yes, Anastasia gets the Prince (almost) in Cinderella III but Cindi gets to do some heroic deeds and rescues herself. That part I approve.
Okay, for the commentor above me … everytime I see Mater I think of the movie Cars and the “Mater” in there. Specifically when he says, “My name is Mater … y’know, like tuh-mater … but without the ‘tuh’!”
And I laugh – because I’m THAT mature.
And this Cinderella post is hysterical. I’m singing the song:
“Cinderella, cinderella
All I hear is Cinderella
From the moment that I get up…”
Great.
Now that is STUCK in my wee li’l brain.
Sophie has not yet learned the finer points of schadenfreude.
Try this- spray David with a garden hose and see if Sophie laughs. This would be what we would call a “teachable moment”.
Another priceless Sophie moment! I think Slouching Mom nailed it–watch yourself, Jenn.
Probably not a good time to show her your Disney Princess play.
Never screw around when there are princesses involved.
Just ask Sophie.
My Mimi was crushed about that particular turn of plot as well. She was desperate to have Cinderella regain the prince in the end — it was hilarious (and a little touching) to watch her anxiety when the stepsister “got” the prince.
I *forgot* this little gem has been released. I don’t know how we can get by without a time-traveling prequel. (UG.) Let the deconstruction begin…
I have to agree with Sophie – Losing your kingdom to a wicked stepmother with hair like Don King is not funny at all.
We are the proud owners of this movie as well. I had suggested that maybe it was too SCARY for our 5 year old (the scary threshold is very low at our house – the bear in Over the Hedge was deemed too scary for quite some time). BUT – a 4 hour plane trip was sufficient for Daddy to give in and buy it.
It’s not bad as straight to video goes – there are some sweet/poignant bits.
I loved the movie, I thought it was much better than the original Cinderella. I was very happily surprised, since cartoon sequels are usually so bad.
Honestly, I hate that damned Cinderella story. Pretty (of course pretty) girl in unfortunate circumstances is rescued by magic in the form of a fairy godmother and chivalry in the form of a handsome prince. Heaven forbid the woman rescue herself with her brains and work ethic (and I’m not talking scrubbing the floor here unless she decided to start a cleaning service). The lack of this particular fairy tale would have saved me a lot of wishing and gotten me off my duff much sooner than I did.
I think Sophie takes princesses very seriously!
Cinderella III was great, my daughter loves the part where Anastasia becomes nice at the end. She says, “mama, that is so nice that Anastasia’s heart is full of love now.” For a sequel or whatever you want to call it, my girl gave it a thumbs up.
Slouching Moms got it down… hide your hangers lady.. cause Nothing IS indeed something, in fact, it’s everything when it comes to the Princess losing her man.
I love reading Sophieism’s… makes me wonder what my own dear daughter would be like if she was at all interested in girl things instead of bugs and football.
GOD, MOM, You Just Don’t Get It starts awfully early, doesn’t it?
Cinderella was my favorite fairy tale! But, alas, I have a boy and will never get to see II and III. Instead it is all Cars, Toy Story, and Peter Pan at my house. I hate that girls can watch boys movies but boys wont watch girl movies. My son says “Ariel is for giRls momma, and I a BOY” So Oh well!
Long time reader 1st time poster! Love your site!
Big R
*sigh*
To be so young, and already getting the painful irony of it all…
Andrea (Little Bald Doctors) directed me to your blog…I enjoyed it!
In Bossy’s version, Cinderella rejects the glass slippers in the first scene. First of all: Talk about blisters. Second of all, any event where you can’t wear your Chuck Taylors isn’t really worth attending. Especially not in a pumpkin.
Indigo just had her sixth birthday and was seriously PISSED that we got her the original Cinderella instead of III version!!
Jenn, methinks it’s time for a replay of what geo has mentioned above. Give your new readers a treat and resurrect “The Princess Diaries, BEAW Version”.
That was a great blog entry and I wouldn’t mind re-reading it now that Sophie and Hannah have really gotten into that whole scene.
I had to sit through “Twelve Dancing Princesses” almost twelve times this past week and need a reality check :>)
Laughing out loud. Thanks. I needed that.
Yes, yes! The Mater is right!! Your princess play/reality check is the first bit of your writing that I ever read and I’ve been reading your blog regularly since then! Please, pretty please? With stolen princes on top?