Anyone who has seen an Egghead cartoon will find the idea of his being Prince Charming quite humorous. If you've seen much by Tex Avery, you know that when he's done, this won't much resemble the fairy tale as you hear it when you were younger. This is not your grandmother's Cinderella! The sight gags are great, as usual, Egghead is Egghead and the closing line is hilarious. Well worth watching. Recommended.
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Cinderella and Egghead
TheLittleSongbird25 May 2018
Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.
Tex Avery was one of the greatest and most influential animation directors there ever was, with a unique visual and humour style and his best work saw some ahead of its time content. 'Cinderella Meets Fella' is not one of his best efforts, it's worth watching, it's well made and it's far from bad, but it is not demonstrative of what made him so great and influential. His work here is more than competent and witty, with a nice bizarre factor, but it's also fairly tame (this is before his prime era in the 40s with MGM) by his standards.
'Cinderella Meets Fella's' story is nothing special and pretty flimsy, while still doing enough new with an oft-adapted story. The cartoon is amusing enough, but there is not what one would call hilarious. Some of the humour is very corny.
However, the animation ranges from good to excellent. It's fluid in movement, vibrant in colour and very meticulous in detail. Most of the pace is lively and the content is charming, amusing and well-timed if with not always imaginative.
Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it. The characters are likeable and their personalities work well individually and together, Egghead is pretty humorous here. The voice acting is solid, notably from the ever legendary Mel Blanc.
Overall, well worth watching if not mind-blowing. 7/10 Bethany Cox
Tex Avery was one of the greatest and most influential animation directors there ever was, with a unique visual and humour style and his best work saw some ahead of its time content. 'Cinderella Meets Fella' is not one of his best efforts, it's worth watching, it's well made and it's far from bad, but it is not demonstrative of what made him so great and influential. His work here is more than competent and witty, with a nice bizarre factor, but it's also fairly tame (this is before his prime era in the 40s with MGM) by his standards.
'Cinderella Meets Fella's' story is nothing special and pretty flimsy, while still doing enough new with an oft-adapted story. The cartoon is amusing enough, but there is not what one would call hilarious. Some of the humour is very corny.
However, the animation ranges from good to excellent. It's fluid in movement, vibrant in colour and very meticulous in detail. Most of the pace is lively and the content is charming, amusing and well-timed if with not always imaginative.
Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it. The characters are likeable and their personalities work well individually and together, Egghead is pretty humorous here. The voice acting is solid, notably from the ever legendary Mel Blanc.
Overall, well worth watching if not mind-blowing. 7/10 Bethany Cox
Very uneven--ranging from hilarious to dopey.
planktonrules8 January 2013
"Cinderella Meets Fella" is a variation on the old Cinderella story. It's filled with anachronisms and silliness.
While "Cinderella Meets Fella" is no great cartoon, compared to the usual film they made at the time, it's pretty good--but also wildly uneven. Part of the reason some of it is good is the bizarre sense of humor of the film's director, Tex Avery. Now this was long before his great films with MGM--and only a few years later, Looney Tunes (Warner Brothers) would fire him. But here, he clearly gives the cartoon a sense of weirdness that helps. However, for every weird moment, a dopey one follows--with VERY corny humor that will make you groan. Worth seeing if you want to see early Avery, otherwise it's one you might want to pass on and just see a later film from this wonderful studio.
While "Cinderella Meets Fella" is no great cartoon, compared to the usual film they made at the time, it's pretty good--but also wildly uneven. Part of the reason some of it is good is the bizarre sense of humor of the film's director, Tex Avery. Now this was long before his great films with MGM--and only a few years later, Looney Tunes (Warner Brothers) would fire him. But here, he clearly gives the cartoon a sense of weirdness that helps. However, for every weird moment, a dopey one follows--with VERY corny humor that will make you groan. Worth seeing if you want to see early Avery, otherwise it's one you might want to pass on and just see a later film from this wonderful studio.
While Aged Americans wait nervously for their Social Security to get axed . . .
oscaralbert5 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers
. . . along with Medicaid and Medicare, many of them have been caught on their Social Media recently remarking upon the "coincidence" that one of their childhood favorites--C!NDERELLA MEETS A FELLA--so closely dovetails with White House Resident-Elect Rump's career. But, as Yogi Berra once said, "There ARE no coincidences in Baseball--or Looney Tunes." Warner Bros.' famously accurate Division of Prophecy through Animated Shorts (DPAS) is spot on in casting 1930s Matinée Idol Egghead as Prince Charming (and, of course, the future Donald J. Rump). Egghead makes a Jerry "Stumblefoot" Ford-style entrance here, rolling down the Royal Ball's Grand Staircase, but immediately latches on to Cinderella's Private Parts because, well, that's what young blondes expect Billionaire Gropers-Elect to do. After "Cindy," as Egghead/Rump respectfully refers to her, flees back home at the stroke of Midnight, the Fresh Prince of Rump Tower throws a sobbing fit temper tantrum on the kitchen floor of Cindy's house, wailing that his "Ball was Rigged!" Cindy follows the Squeaky Wheel U.S. Minority's lead in casting her lot with her Charming/Rump at this point, literally climbing out of her Real Life Warner Theater to join him on the Looney Tunes Screen.
Warner Bros. sure loved themselves
Horst_In_Translation22 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
"Cinderella Meets Fella" is an 8.5-minute cartoon from 1938, so this one will have its 80th anniversary next year. It's a production by Schlesinger and Warner Bros and you will find out about the latter in a really self-aware ending that easily could have gone wrong, but somehow instead saved the film from complete mediocrity. Before that there is not too much entertaining comedy I would say, maybe the way she calls for the fairy or leaves her shoe there. But there were also misses like the inclusion of birds, the exclusion of the bad girls except very briefly at the beginning and Prince (not so) Charming. It may have been the voice talents by Blanc and Hansen that made this one still worth seeing. The by far best component here is the looks though. It's really impressive looking at how old this is and this one puts the "golden" into the "Golden Age of Animation". I give it a thumbs overall, a cautious one though.
One of Avery's best cartoons.
JohnHowardReid5 September 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Cast includes "Egghead" (Prince Charming), and "Jerry Colonna" all the palace guards).
Director: TEX AVERY. Story: Tedd Pierce. Animation: Virgil Ross. Music director: Carl W. Stalling. Color by Technicolor. Producer: Leon Schlesinger.
Copyright 8 December 1938 by The Vitaphone Corp. A Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon. U.S. release: 25 July 1938. 7 minutes.
COMMENT: Warner Brothers' cartoon gag-men were often at their very best when re-working classic fairy tales. This highly diverting Cinderella variant is certainly no exception.
"Cinderella Meets Fella" is crammed full of absolutely delicious sight and aural gags. For example, the step-sisters exit their scene to the strains of "High-ho, Silver".
There are also lots of ingeniously amusing changes that turn standard cast members into really weirdo characters (for example, we have here a fairy godmother on the booze).
We are also more than amply supplied with delightful songs ("Boy Meets Girl") and extremely lavish production values.
Yes, all told, "Cinderella Meets Fella" is typical Tex Avery at his Warner's peak.
Director: TEX AVERY. Story: Tedd Pierce. Animation: Virgil Ross. Music director: Carl W. Stalling. Color by Technicolor. Producer: Leon Schlesinger.
Copyright 8 December 1938 by The Vitaphone Corp. A Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon. U.S. release: 25 July 1938. 7 minutes.
COMMENT: Warner Brothers' cartoon gag-men were often at their very best when re-working classic fairy tales. This highly diverting Cinderella variant is certainly no exception.
"Cinderella Meets Fella" is crammed full of absolutely delicious sight and aural gags. For example, the step-sisters exit their scene to the strains of "High-ho, Silver".
There are also lots of ingeniously amusing changes that turn standard cast members into really weirdo characters (for example, we have here a fairy godmother on the booze).
We are also more than amply supplied with delightful songs ("Boy Meets Girl") and extremely lavish production values.
Yes, all told, "Cinderella Meets Fella" is typical Tex Avery at his Warner's peak.
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