Cinderfella
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In Theaters : 18 December, 1960
Video Release : 17 August, 1994 |
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Cinderfella Customer Reviews
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Why did I use to like this?
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In the 1970s, Jerry Lewis movies were sporadically shown at 8 p.m. on New York station WNEW. At the time, I enjoyed these prime time showings, like this movie, "That's My Boy," and "Don't Give Up the Ship." How times have changed. Watching some of these movies today is downright painful. (Actually, all of them probably are; I just haven't seen them all recently.)
Cinderfella in particular struck me as a complete Jerry Lewis vanity project, probably no less than "The Nutty Professor." Both had Lewis combining his trademark childish antics with "serious" scenes of him supposedly being a devastatingly suave and irresistible ladies' man. Cinderfella had the additional detriment of regularly regaling us with Lewis' grating and self-indulgent renditions of maudlin songs not worthy of even a Disney cartoon. In later years, his singing would become the low point in all of his Muscular Dystrophy telethons.
Part of the problem was that Lewis didn't age well. When he was young and lanky, he could pull off the man-child role. But by the time of this movie, at the tender age of 34, he was already starting to puff up. He should have been evolving his comedic style, as Jim Carrey and Tom Hanks did as they aged. The same, old schtick becomes tiresome very quickly. It didn't help that he insisted on wearing two big, "macho" rings on his hands, which the supposedly unassuming and impoverished Fella never would have worn. Jerry, you're overcompensating. And, sorry, but you're no Dean Martin, who COULD pull off the easy charisma of a natural charmer and had a great voice (and didn't need and didn't wear as much finger bling).
Finally, the ending of the movie didn't work, either. Are we supposed to cheer that the princess ended up with Fella? After all, wasn't it drilled into our brains all through the movie that Fella is a clumsy and complete imbecile, mitigated only by the fact that he's well-meaning and kind? Quite frankly, I'm not sure I would wish him and his constant bumbling on any woman. |
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