Cinderella (Britannica) - Phelous 

Gotta admit, caffeinated/unhinged Cinderella caught me off guard and really cracked me up. 😂😂 Haven’t seen THAT take on the character before.

I really do appreciate that Phelan acknowledged that the first version was based on Perrault's version. So many youtubers review Perrault Cinderella adaptations and then complain that it doesn't follow the Grimm version even though they are two different stories. It's nice that Phelan puts so much research into these fairytale videos

I think the step sisters in the first story are supposed to say "you wear rags" instead of "you wear red".

The Disney prince wasn't the one who did the whole foot thing it was the King. As the King didn't see Cinderella's face. He was also too much of a hot head to listen to anyone about it and nearly killed one of his servants, the one with the shoe, when he found out that he didn't keep her hostage.

There is something indescribably comforting about Phelan and his own brand of comedy.

Cinderella waddling home in a pumpkin, hobbling on one glass-slippered foot isn't something I thought I'd see in connection to any Cinderella thing ever.

I always thought that the reason the shoe only fit Cinderella was because like the gown and carriage it too was magical. So it was only meant to fit Cinderella and no one else, so if someone had her shoe size the shoe would shrink because it wasn’t her.

It was nice to have here the Chad Prince from Cinderella 3 and his hilarious moment of throwing himself to the window

The evil shifty eye dog reference to the Simpsons really made this instantly one of my favorite of these Britannica reviews.

Well tbh the shoe thing makes more sense in the context of the time the story took place. It's not like they had standardized shoe sizes or mass production. Cinderella's shoes fit her the best because they were tailor-made for her. They fit her like proverbial glove...so when other girls tried them on, it was noticeable that they didn't have the exact measurements for that specific shoe. Similar thing-the times- goes for people not recognizing her. The ballroom was lit mostly by candlelight so the visibility probably wasn't the best. esp if you were to see Cinderella from distance. Plus she'd have a different hairstyle and make-up and quite a bit of it. Since the Perault version is from 1690s. She'd be near irrecognizble in peasant's clothes.

Fun fact: the glass slippers thing is a mistranslation. In earlier versions, the word used to described what they were made of was "vaire" (a french word for some kind of fur), which *is* much more comfortable. But that word just happens to sound exactly like "verre" (the french word for glass), hence the confusion. Sooo yeah, orginally they weren't so absurdly uncomfortable^^'

I mean, I always figured Cinderella was unrecognizable because Magic (some versions telegraph this), but I kind of love the idea of a face-blind prince.

The glass slipper (or gold depending on which version) is usually a physical gift from the fairy godmother, not a magically transformed clog. Most versions omit this to save time on production (I assume). There was an Italian animated series of Cinderella where the glass slippers belonged to her mother and the fairy god mother’s magic only shined them up for her.

Cinderella's stepmother was always my favorite Star Trek character.

Well the King WAS about to found Wiki-Feet, but he learned the King in 'The Christmas Elves' already beat him too it.

For some reason, the edit of Cinderella going from happily wishing her sisters a good night to then her sobbing within a second made me lose it - just the almost cartoonish way she's crying doesn't make me feel sorry for her, exactly.

If she's Cinderclod, does that mean she needs a Fairy Clod Mother?

The first short is the most eccentric I’ve seen Cinderella, and I love it for that. Can’t say the same for the creepster prince.

'Cinderella had a long walk home.' During which she got arrested for public indecency. 🤣🤣🤣 I swear, Phelous is the funniest guy on RU-vid.

I also believe in *SUPPAR* at first sight.

First Bevanfield's Beauty and the Biest and now Purp Morita's Cinderella included frogs... Maybe they want to get you to review a certain fairy tale. Also the Step Sisters really had their comeuppance - they married two gentlemen. We all do remember what a gentlemen in Cinderella is.

The Maria story reminds me a lot of a German fairy tale Frau Holle / Mother Frost, with the nice sister doing chores to retreave something dear to her and the bad sister repeating the steps in hope of reward. That one lacks the Cinderella elements, though, it just ends after covering her in mud or tar.

That stretched-out low-pitch "WAHHHHHHHHH" is going to be my new ringtone.

One version of the Cinderella story that I particularly like is Allerleirauh. In that story the girl is very clever and manages to get herself to the festival without any help. There's also a solid explanation why she is afraid to reveal her identity and drops hints to lead the prince to her to find out if he's trustworthy before he finds out for sure who she is.

It seems that Ever After really is one of the better written/less nonsensical takes on Cinderella. That, and the Cinderella 3 clips were a nice touch. Still, fantastic review and glad to see more Britannica!

I must say I do have a soft spot for the Fairy Godmother's design from the first story. She looks like Woodstock from Peanuts mixed with one of the Bones cousins and its so simple yet so adorable!

Honestly I adore the britannica reviews, it's so much fun to see these weird, sometimes rather ugly takes on fairy tales that I may or may not have heard of and the variety leads to some excellent material.

I remember seeing a strange Australian version of "Cinderella" where she ends up stuck in the pumpkin after the spell wears off, but she's just confused instead of walking around.

I'll give it one thing, the animation is pretty fluid, especially the facial expressions. The backgrounds aren't lazy either. (This only applies to the first one).

Cinderella is actually a good story about how being humble, kind, and forgiving to your enemies will pay off in the end. Unfortunately, many just focus on the magic and foot fetish end of things. That’s why I like both the opera rendition “La Cenerentola” and the movie “Ever After” best because it shows the lead character to show mercy for their stepparent who abuse and mistreat them, and yes this can apply to even if they are your birth parent (I speak from personal life experience on that latter one, unfortunately). Either way, a hilarious review of a skewed version of this underrated fairy tale which is one of my favorites along with B&TB, King Thrushbeard, etc. You should check out some of the Japanese anime Grimm’s Fairy Tales or Russian folk tales as some of them are genuinely messed up - like “The Water Nixie”, “The Frog Prince”, and Baba Yaga etc. Team Morita all the way!

Always a treat when you talk about Britannica! And I'm a fan of when you edit little phrases and stuff like that... I cackled at "In Chili, people tell the story of a girl named..... supper."

That Cinderella Prince is giving me strong Pepe Le Pew vibes.

Meanwhile, the Bevanfield Beast is enraged because, despite devoting the entire decor of his castle to them, his frogs never gave him gold and silver footwear.

Cinderella was my favorite fairy tale as a kid (for tragic backstory reasons I didn't realize till adulthood), and since it's such a well known story it's always fun to see what weird shit adaptations will do to stand out. Hell, Cinderella was the story that introduced me to the idea that different cultures have their own versions of fairy tales (anyone else remember the Egyptian Cinderella and Chinese Cinderella picture books every school classroom had in the 90s and 2000s?).

Gotta love how Phelous turned the lights purple for purple Pat Morita, now only needs the purple shirt from the earlier episodes in the series and it'd be perfect !

I’m going to be honest when you said the prince had multiple balls my mind did go to another disturbing place.

'What makes a story a Cinderella story? There's always a girl...in Chile!' Okay...I have seen surprisingly few accurate Cinderella stories then O_O

I love the first story's animation. It's very charming!

What I love about these Brittanica reviews is that we learn more about foreign tales and get to hear Phelous pointing all the changes and omissiom ( if mostly all the pointless ones)

I think if he reviews Britannica's Sleeping Beauty that's all of them.

To be fair phealous Cinderella’s stepmother doesn’t let her rest a whole lot and she’s gotta stay awake to get those chores done somehow.

It’s pretty impressive how you can watch different versions of the same tale and find new and funny things to say Yes, different companies obviously have different “takes”, but it’s the same basic story. Keep it up, watching you is a great way to end the week!

At least the Disney version acknowledges how stupid the shoe idea is and to fix the "why doesn't he just remember what she looked like" they didn't have the prince watch the fittings. And the shoe staying with her and not disappearing was confirmed to be a gift from her. At least Disney fixed all of this including them actually conversing with each other.

Still waiting for Pat to ask if we believe in magic in a young girls heart

I like the version with the dead mother tree, tattle tell birds, and step sisters cutting off parts of their feet like that's totally a normal thing to do.

The Cinderella version I grew up with, was the one where the stepsisters cut parts of their feet of to fit in the shoe and Cinderellas doves snitching on them "Gurru gurru blood is in the shoe". 😂 Funny video. Thank you for the entertainment 🤭👍

Oh my gosh, I thought I'd never see Britannica's Cinderella again! I used to have it on VHS as a kid and it was one of my personal favorites because of how bizarre and unique each version of the Cinderella story was told and animated! Thank you SO much for this, Phelous!! You brought a long-lost piece of my childhood back to me!!

I'm pretty sure those older courtiers whom Cinderella's stepsisters married are definitely closely related to them

it’s actually pretty interesting and kinda crazy to learn that the basic cinderella story has been around for that long tho

Phelous features so many of these discount animation studios on his channel that sometimes I can't remember which is which. But when he opens up with "The World of Purple Pat Morita" I instantly went "Oh, that one."

Wow, how did the first 'Cinderella' here slip under my radar? Between the animation, Cinderella's voice and personality, the stepsisters, and the prince...! I saw the Golden Films version, and WOW. Cinderella has seriously huge Barbie hair, the music gets so loud you can barely hear the dialogue, the stepmother looks like Mr. Weatherbee, the stepsisters look like Jughead, and the godmother is tiny and tubby...it wasn't half bad;)

The Argentinian story reminds me of a fairy tale called The Talking Eggs my elementary school would see by a local puppeteer with a Cajun aesthetic add to it; since we lived in Louisiana and all that. The story had the elements of an evil stepmother and sister, and visiting a magic woman who gave the good daughter gifts. However what I remember was that she had to promise not to laugh seeing the weird creatures she had like a two headed cow that barked and meowed, and to take the plain eggs not the Jeweled ones as a reward. The plain eggs gave the good daughter gifts like a dress, horse, and bird. But the step daughter was rude, lazy, and greedy so the seemingly valuable eggs spawned hornets, rattlesnakes, and a gator than assumingly ate the evil stepmother and sister.

You know, if they could have added more stories within this episode, I would have loved to see their version of Yen Shen (the Chinese Cinderella), Vasilissa the beautiful (Russian Cinderella) or even Brother Grimm's Cinderella, although they would more likely try to make the Brothers Grimm version more "child-friendly" considering that the evil stepmother forces her biological daughter to cut parts of their feet to fit the golden slipper (worst mother of the year) and the stepsisters are punished at Cinderella's wedding by getting bloody blinded by birds, which I feel the punishment is more of a fit for the stepmother and Cinderella's father. Alo, I believe the stepsister in Brittanica were meant to say rags not red and the reason for why the fairy godmother changed Cinderella's hair colour was because her hair was actually covered in ashes and cinders due to be forced to sleep in the kitchen, which would explain her nickname, therefore, she did not actually change her hair colour. I do have to say that I hate the fact that they made the fairy godmother into a bug instead of an actual fairy, like a pixie, nymph or a more humanoid type of fairy like an elf.

Cinderellas voice actor...I think its Olivia Hack, the voice of Rhonda from Hey Arnald and Ty Lee from Avatar

Do you believe in fun Phelous mornings ? Because I do!🥳😎 After all it just happened to me 😉

Also the "bad sister repears good sister's deeds" is part of Frau Holle tale by Brother's Grimm. The lazy sister does job poorly and gets covered in mud and snakes and frogs that won't come off while the good sister is rewarded with like jewels falling out of her mouth when she speaks. and beforehand she gets gold and silver and precious stones from Frau Holle.

Oh no! The frog from the Bevanfield Beauty and the beast is back

At least Maria never got an Evil Stick, which is in no way endorsed by the Daidouji Toy Company. ^-^

Can’t believe they forgot to add this to the lore of Cobra Kai 😥

I like this one because it reveals Pat Morita's obsession with supper.

I've seen a version where it's a magic tree that just drops dresses and shoes from it's branches for Cinderella. And it's an adoptive mother instead of a stepmother who has the tree chopped down. A frog is definitely a bit different. I hope we'll get to see you do Mondo world's version of hunchback of Notre Dame sometime.

Oh Phelous, the prince ain't no creep, he's just extremely, aggressively French xD

Chilean Cinderella reminds me alot of a German tale called "Frau Holle" (Old Mother Frost). Mary fall into a well, meets an old woman who is responsible of making it snow in the world (by shaking her blanket out off the window) and helps her out in the house, and after a year is sent home, gifted with golden hair and dress. Her evil step sister, also called Mary, also wants this, meets the old woman but does not help her and is sent home with hair and dress covered in tar. Also, please look up the Vietnamese version of Cinderella.

I liked the callbacks and the "supper" edits haha

Pat Morita is lagging! Also man am I glad you preserve the Morita versions, what a crime to remove him from any of these, I mean why take out the best part of the tape? And yes, Jack Frost is an MST3K classic, it intrudes into my brain a little too often :P

That's was great as usual) I absolutely adore this series of cartoons in Phelous' vision. Also I was completely caught off-guard by soviet "Morozko" or "Jack Frost", didn't realise that somebody knew about this movie except past-soviet republics)

00:48 Haha perfect Phelous. I often find myself quoting your bits from your animated videos, and I've gotten my partner to watch a lot of these. He made me pretty proud when he came in from the rain and said, "Ugh, I'm all wet...I'm completely usless now".

I love how you take media I would never watch and turn it into something I immediately click on when it appears in my YT feed. You deserve a million subs!

Phelous had fun with the slow mo in this.

Why wasn't there a dinosaur based Cinderella where the prince has to check dinosaur footprint fossils to compare?!

like a true filmmaker, phelan keeps us in tight anticipation for pat morita's bald head

Cinderella ran away from the ball but left behind half her budget. Also I always liked where the Disney movies took the matchmaking with her sisters idea - Anastasia in the sequels splits off from the rest of the family because whatever SHE wants they just make fun of her for, and Cinderella is there for her because her sister's trying to be less of a piece of shit, and both Lady Tremaine and Drizella pretty much get disowned by the two as they grow closer after getting out from under the bitch brigade's feet.

I remember having this version on one of those cheap dollar store DVDs. IIRC my grandpa got it for me. Also never knew that the Cinderella story existed long before the original version we all know even existed!

Fantastic job on this review. I love all the supper and weird animal jokes! Also really like the dog with the eye patch! Your channel is always full of fun surprises!

"one change that was made was the prince having multiple balls" Michael Bluth voice: "there's gotta be a better way to say that"

You know, the weirdness of the prince not just recognizing Cinderella by her face could easily be explained by making the ball a masquerade. Ta-daaa! Problem solved! Weird that no adaptation seems to think of that. As for the glass slipper not turning back, again it seems like it's an easy fix: just... have them turn back like everything else. Them not turning back really isn't necessary for the story and in fact, wouldn't it be more likely that it would clue the Prince in that not only is there something unique about Cinderella, but would allow him to weed out the frauds trying to come up with glass ones?

I love when Phelous makes a big deal out of something that he himself misheard, like mishearing "rags" for "red". But yes, I also like caffeinated Cinderella, lmao.

A Phelous video on March 10th! And it's on Britannica Cinderella!? Such a gentleman, he is!

Cool Phelous made it to this one. Britannica's Cinderella is the one in the series I watched when I was a kid after borrowing a copy of it from a cousin. I really appreciate it helped introduce me to different versions of fairy tales besides the Disney versions I was used to.

You don't even want to know about Phoenix Games' Cinderella, Phelan. It makes this look like the Mona Lisa X(

4:20 Apparently her stepsisters turned into Peridot from Steven Universe

The criticism about how dumb the prince is for not being able to recognize Cinderella kind of falls apart when you realize most versions of the story have the servants going door to door, the prince isn't there with them at all, and it's not like "yeah you're looking for a white blonde girl in central Europe" would've been super helpful as a description.

Ok but the visual comedy in this video was amazing 😂❤

I remember reading a story book version of the Cinderella story that was similar to the Maria story in that it involved her transforming so she could go to church. The differences I can remember are that I'm pretty sure it doesn't take place in Chile and Cinderella has two evil stepsisters who are scared that she'll get married before either of them (at least I think that's why they're assholes to her). I can't recall how Cinderella gets the magic so she can transform herself, but her condition for that ability is that she can't enter the church itself, she can only stand outside the door during the church service. Her going to church happens multiple times and she attracts a lot of attention because people don't know who this beautiful, well-dressed woman is, and the prince equivalent in that waits for her to leave on her horse and grabs one of her shoes as she's riding away. From there I think it follows the typical Cinderella storyline and the shoe is tried by many different women before it finally gets to Cinderella. And then the story ends with the two stepsisters being placed on a barrel with provisions to last seven year and are abandoned in the middle of the ocean, where they are never seen again. Admittedly I don't remember enough of that version to know if they deserved that fate, but that seemed like overkill in terms of punishment.

I like how memetic the intro is. Like, we've all been here, we know we're here for Purple Pat Morita, so let's just cut the crap and enjoy him! (At least I assume that's what you're going for. :P ) That being said, thank you as always for the historical context. Amazing to think the OG Cinderella author lived at the same time as Jesus. I respect Britannica's effort, but MAN, some of these look like fever dream material. Yellow bug Fairy Godmother and humanized dog and frog would be at the top of the list for this case. And Chile.... As a geologist Chile is my dream country for a number of reasons, but you have some *HECKED* up fairy tales!!!

Really enjoy these britannica reviews

I’ve actually seen this Brittanica episode in my junior year of high school when we were talking about Cinderella in English class, as well as writing our own page long versions of a Cinderella-like story. This memory took me back when you did your Brittanica Beauty and the Beast episode 4 years ago. Thanks, Phelous. 11:09 to 11:15- This ending shot from the first story has been hardcoded into my memory after all these years, because they wouldn't stop freaking bouncing. 16:59- And the movie "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back)."

I can tell you had a lot of fun with the editing on this one.

The stepmother's mouth is so weirdly smoothly animated. They spent their whole budget on getting James Baxter, lol

Pat Morita: "What makes a review a Phelous review?"

I've actually read a version of the Maria story. In that one, the step sister ended up with a turkey snood on her forehead and there were multiple magical women who lived in the house. Also don't think the cow was in that version either. But did have Maria chasing down a fish shouting, "My intestines! My intestines!" Which for some reason I found funny. Most likely because of how absurd it was.

I'm low key freaking out because I actually remember I saw this movie when I was kid and it's ALLLLLLL coming back to me!

Thanks Phelous, for continuing to be a bright spot on RU-vid. 👍

I am from Chile.....but never heard of this version of the story. Thanks Phelous!

The Maria one reminds me of a book I read once called the talking egg. Where the girl does some stuff for the woman, gets rewarded for it. Sister tried to do the same but messes it up in someway.

The Nigerian version is... peculiar. I wonder if it somehow inspired the Egyptian version OR the other way around. Either way, it's fascinating what is has still in common with most European versions.

the battletoads ancestors sure where generous

You know, I once read of a Native American version of that story only the prince was invisible and there was no shoes but the Cinderella of that story was able to see him by correctly answering two questions: 1) what’s his bow made out of; 2) what’s his sleigh made out of

Holy fuck! I watched the Maria story when I was like 8, and all I remembered of it was the "look down" and "look up" part. I've been trying to find it for years! Thank's Phelous. That's one less annoying thought to take to my grave.

Whoa. I had no clue that Cinderella had it's roots from a Greek story! That's crazy! I wonder why no one has adapted that?