The result is pure pumpkin, though fans of squeaky-clean, helium-voiced Hilary Duff might fall under its sickly sweet spell.
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08/03/04
A Cinderella Story (2004)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:10
Rotten:86
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: An uninspired, generic updating of the classic fairy tale.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Hilary Duff plays Sam, a good-hearted Cinderella stuck in the fairy-tale-gone-wrong atmosphere of modern-day Los Angeles. Enslaved by an evil, BOTOX-junky step-mom (a hilarious Jennifer Coolidge)... [More]
Starring: Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Jennifer Coolidge
Director: Mark Rosman
Reviews for A Cinderella Story
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06/24/06
Top CriticThis is simple, lazy storytelling rendered merely functional by appealing leads and the eternal lure of romantic fantasy.
08/19/04
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08/19/04
With a few hilarious exceptions, the jokes are bland and unfunny, and the fairy tale reinventions aren't creative or witty enough.
07/19/04
Every high school cliché in the book is dredged up for this piece of fluff
08/19/04
Top CriticThe weak plot may entertain little kids still glued to Lizzie McGuire reruns, but this just isn't really funny or interesting (even in an updated and kitschy way) for the rest of us.
07/16/04
Top CriticThe mind is more fragile than, say, teeth, and cotton candy like this will quickly cause irreparable cavities in the brain.
07/16/04
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07/20/04
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07/20/04
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12/06/05
Top CriticDuff needed to channel TV-Lizzie for this role, but instead she gives us milquetoast.
07/15/04
Charles Perrault must be spinning in his grave.
06/13/08
Stock characters played broadly in a script rife with cliché plot devices and a bad case of the blands
07/14/04
Viewers outside [Duff's] demographic will find only the occasional shining moment in this generic picture.
07/16/04
'A Cinderella Story' makes so many good chocies, you wish you could like it more than you do.
11/04/04
just about the same exact movie as all those other trifles aimed at the tween girl demographic that have been unleashed upon the unsuspecting moviegoing masses this year
07/16/04
A Cinderella Story definitely is for the younger film crowd. It’s unabashedly simplistic and formulaic, made to highlight the charms of (Hilary) Duff.
07/21/04
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08/16/04
Mostly boring, sometimes quite clumsy, and never particularly interesting.
07/14/04
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