What are the 10 Millennial Cinderella Movies?

Sandra Burges
6 min readSep 2, 2017

Cinderella or mostly knows as the Little Glass Slipper lady is a folk fairy tale embodying the fable element of triumphant reward or unjust oppression. There had been thousands of variations of this movie throughout the world. The title character is about a young fine lady staying with unfortunate circumstances that were abruptly modified to a remarkable fortune. There had been many famous versions of the Cinderella movie and these are just some of the Millennial Cinderella movies tales.

  1. Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, 2002

The Cinderella II movie is the initial direct-to-video continuation of the Disney film Cinderella in 1950. It has three segments that featured Cinderella in a party planning, Jaq turned into a human, one of the mice, lower-class man, wherein Drizella and Lady Tremaine did not approve, and one of Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters Anastasia who was getting her redemption by falling in-love with the young baker. Cinderella Here was played by Jennifer Hale, who was preparing for her first ever royal ball and attempted to assist her stepsister played by Tress MacNeille to find love.

2. A Cinderella Story, 2004

Hilary Duff played as Sam is a teenager living in California. He was obliged to be employed as a dishwasher and a janitor in the bistro of her stepmom played by Jennifer Coolidge. After a phone mix-up, Sam started an anonymous e-mail and messaging relationship with the boy. They both agreed to meet at the school dance, and when Sam discovered out that her top secret pal is no other than Chad Michael Murray played as Austin Ames, the cutest boy in the school, she was alarmed and searched for a mean to make herself calm.

3. Ella Enchanted, 2004

As a baby, Ella played by Anne Hathaway takes a visitor coming from Lucinda played by Vivica Fox, her fairy godmother, who was bestowed with magical powers that oblige her to follow anything that she was told to do so. This denotes more of an annoyance than a blessing, especially when her mother died and she was obliged to stay with the mean Dame Olga played by Joanna Lumley. Finally, Ella goes on a trip to locate Lucinda and smashed out the spell, together with the good looking Prince Charmont played by Hugh Dancy.

4. Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, 2007

On the primary anniversary of Cinderella, played by Jennifer Hale with her marriage to the Prince Charming played by C. D. Barnes, the stepsister Anastasia played by Tress MacNeille discovered the Fairy Godmother played by Russi Taylor stick in the woods. Cinderella’s brutal stepmom, Lady Tremaine played by Susanne Blakeslee, applied it to overturn time, making the popular glass slipper matches Anastasia’s foot just before Cinderella had the opportunity to attempt on it. No longer keeping any memory about Cinderella, so, the prince prepared to get married to Anastasia.

5. Another Cinderella Story, 2008

The Cinderella Story is a musical dance teen comedy movie by director Damon Santostefano with stars Selena Gomez, Jane Lynch and Drew Seeley. It is the continuation of A Cinderella Story of 2004 and the following movie of A Cinderella Story sequence. Drew Seeley played as the young man that longs to join together with the adorable dancer played by Selena Gomez where he met in a masked ball.

6. Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale, 2010

This modern Cinderella Tale is a musical American teen comedy-drama movie by director Sean and John Dunson with stars Sterling Knight and Ashlee Hewitt. Elle Daniels played by Ashlee Hewitt has dreamt of being a popular songwriter and singer for as long as she may recall it. During the moment of her try out for the Berklee, the airplane her parents were riding during in crashes. Devastated, Elle moved in with Thomas Calabro played as the Uncle Allen, one that run an independent, small record company named as the Spunn Records.

7. A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, 2011

The film is a 2011 comedy musical teen movie by director Damon Santostefano with stars Lucy Hale, Megan Park, Freddie Stroma, Missi Pyle and Manu Narayan. This is the continuation of the 2008 Another Cinderella Story. The story of Cinderella is about the 17-year-old aspiring soloist Katie Gibbs played by Lucy Hale who is bullied, constantly harassed and over-worked with her stepmom Gail played by Missi Pyle, and stepsister Bev, and stepbrother Victor played by Matthew Lintz. Regardless of how bad they were treating her, Katie still did their order without complaints because she has fear that they will place her in the woods and she was just taking all of these emotional abused until she became 18 and will be graduating from High School.

8. Into the Woods, 2014

As the outcome from the curse of a beautiful witch played by Meryl Streep; the baker played by James Corden, with his wife played by Emily Blunt were childless. Just three days before the coming of the blue moon, they go to the woods to discover the factors that will turn around the spell and reinstate the witch’s good looks: a yellow hair like a corn, a milk of a white cow, a blood red cape, and the gold slipper. While on their journey, they saw Cinderella, Rapunzel and Jack, Red Riding Hood, each one of them was there to complete a wish.

9. Cinderella, 2015

After the unexpected death of her father, the young Ella played by Lily James locates herself at the compassion of her cruel stepsisters and stepmom played by Cate Blanchett, who brings her down to being a scullery maid. Despite the present circumstances, she rejected the misery. A request to a palace ball provided Ella the hope that she can reunite again with the dashing guest played by Richard Madden, whom she encountered in the forest, but her step mom stopped her from going. The assistance arrived in the appearance of a kind beggar lady that has the magic touch for the extraordinary things.

10. A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits, 2016

The film is a comedy teen musical movie by director Michelle Johnston with stars Sofia Carson, Jennifer Tilly and Thomas Law. It is the continuation the 2011 Cinderella Story series. The story is about Tessa played by Sofia Carson, who was forced to escort her evil stepmom played by Jennifer Tilly and her stepsisters played by Jazzara Jaslyn and Amy Louise Wilson to a musical audition of Cinderella to be employed as their assistant. At the contest, Tessa recognizes that she has it all to be the coming Cinderella of the new generation.

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