Cinderella is now officially Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The classic animated Disney princess movie is a retelling of the 1697 fairy tale of the same name about a young orphan who lives with her wicked stepmother and falls in love with the Prince thanks to the help of her Fairy Godmother. When Cinderella premiered in 1950, it was only the second princess movie released by Disney after their original 1937 hit Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Both titles are now part of a tradition that includes 14 movies such as Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, and Frozen.
Rotten Tomatoes has finally determined the iconic Disney princess movie Cinderella to be Certified Fresh now that a 40th review (from ButteredPopcorn‘s Carson Timar) has been added to the aggregator. This finally allowed the movie, which has a 98% score at the time of writing, to cross the threshold into an official certification. Now that Cinderella has joined their ranks, every single Disney princess movie in the official Walt Disney Animation Studios canon is Certified Fresh with the exception of 1995’s Pocahontas, which has a Rotten score of 54% and is thus not eligible.
Cinderella Remains One Of Disney’s Strongest-Performing Princess Movies
This Rotten Tomatoes certification for Cinderella has been a long time coming. The delay in this achievement is largely due to the fact that it premiered decades before Rotten Tomatoes debuted, and the service prioritizes uploading reviews of contemporary movies. However, it has always been one of the strongest-performing Disney princess movies, including the fact that it has the highest Rotten Tomatoes score (Snow White is trailing just behind Cinderella at 97%).
At the time of release, Cinderella was a smash hit, earning $182 million off its budget of $2 million. In fact, it was the highest-grossing domestic movie of 1950, outgrossing movies such as All About Eve and Annie Get Your Gun. It was also nominated for three Oscars, the most for a Disney princess movie before the Silver Age of the late 1980s brought celebrated titles including The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast into the fold.
The movie has also contributed several iconic songs to the cinema canon including “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” and “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes.” It was so successful and instantly iconic that it also helped inspire a plethora of Cinderella retellings such as A Cinderella Story, Sneakerella, and 2015’s live-action Lily James Cinderella remake. With such a long-lasting legacy behind it, it makes perfect sense that Cinderella would earn this distinction, no matter how long it took.
