Also known as Cendrillon au Far West or Cinderella: Once upon a time in the west, this 2012 CG-animated French film is a bizarre take on the classic Cinderella tale, where Cinderella is an anthropomorphic animal of ambiguous species living out in the Old West.
This movie provides examples of:
- Beauty Equals Goodness: The titular and good Cinderella is the most beautiful of all the characters, whereas the step mother and her daughters are as ugly inside as they look.
- Death by Adaptation: The wicked stepmother drowns in quicksand. Blink and you'll miss it, but the stepsisters somehow seemed to have escaped in time, though.
- Good Animals, Evil Animals:
- The wicked step mother appears to be a pit bull, while her daughters appear to be bulldogs.
- The good prince is a beagle.
- Fairy Tale: The Cinderella story.
- Horse of a Different Color: They ride non-anthropomorphic giant vultures.
- Just Eat Gilligan: This version makes Cinderella into a confident butt-kicker so it can be a rip-roaring Wild West adventure. As Bobsheaux points out in his review, this means there's really no reason for her to hang around letting her relatives treat her like a slave, instead of kicking them to the curb and striking out on her own. Except then it's not a Cinderella story anymore.
- Killer Gorilla: Barb Azul is a fearsome gorilla pirate.
- The Mockbuster: Of Rango. Both feature ugly animals in a western siting that ride birds. It only came out a year after Rango was made, and it shows.
- Recycled IN SPACE!: Cinderella...IN THE WEST! It's odder than it sounds.
- Shout-Out: The pirate leader is named Barb Azul, after Perrault's Bluebeard
- The Western: They try to make it interesting by placing Cinderella in the West, but it just falls flat.
- Wilhelm Scream: Heard when the pirates push out a victim out on the plank.
