Review of Cindy

The best thing about this movie is Cindy's lovely singing, especially the church scene. I don't like that it was somewhat of a parody. Because it was done that way, it allowed for too much condescension and mean-spiritedness by the male leads towards the female leads. The lines when the draft-dodger calls Cindy "country," and when he said he was "marrying a stupid girl," turned me off. I was also put off when the military man tells one of the step sisters the military was looking for nerve gas volunteers. It was a funny roast, but unnecessarily cutting. The men came off as jealous queens with those lines. As with Dorothy in both the Wizard of Oz and the Wiz, I didn't care for using obviously adult women in adolescent roles. Why not tweak the writing a bit to make them young adults, in all aspects of the roles? They should all take a queue from Ever After with Drew Barrymore (the best done version in my opinion). The all Black cast was different, but it's not a version I'd watch again.