La Métamorphose de Cendrillon

The Big Bad Wolf stops chasing Little Red Riding Hood. Instead, he starts chasing Cinderella. Fairy Godmother intervenes. This is a more adult theme cartoon. It's Tex Avery with the Wolf and that happens a lot sometimes. He's a more dangerous Pepé le Pew. I wouldn't mind more expressions from Cinderella but she is basically the super hot Instagram model. This is fun but not necessarily for kids.

A lascivious wolf stops chasing Red Riding Hood long enough to take part in a Cinderella story--with the heroine a dead-ringer for Bette Davis! This Cinderella, with mascara-circled eyes and a voice dripping with disdain, wants to go to the ball all right, but only because she's the sultry stage chanteuse; her Fairy Godmother has eyes for the wolf herself--but even dolled up in Old Lady Chic, she can't get his attention. Using a particularly expressive style of animation here, Tex Avery gives us a grown-up Cinderella with more curves than the Hollywood Freeway! Jessica Rabbit would envy this bombshell, which makes the tag at the finish line even funnier as Cindy returns to her duty as an aircraft riveter on-board a bus full of wolves. She may have gone back to her working girl roots, but the guys love her anyway.

This cartoon is just great! Lots of sight gags, a fair number of topical gags framed on the war and life on the home front and the most entetaining fairy godmother to come down the pike in quite a while. Another "fairytale" cartoon by Avery that is ribald and lecherous and pokes fun at everything, including itself. Tex Avery was incredible. The bit with the jeep is beautiful! The swimmers make the final turn, they're coming to the wall-it's a world record! Recommended!

...not exactly for sensuality and not comfortable humor, but for lovely freshness. The smart irony, the great fairy godmother and the poor wolf are the precious pieces of a lovely animation who, scene by scene becomes the most realistic of the post - war American realities, from the expectations and dreams to the pragmatic pespectives.

Tex Avery was always looking for ways to exaggerate his toons into sight gags of outrageous hilarity, and in this one he spares nothing: from the opening montage in which a feral Wolf chases Little Red Riding Hood across the titles only to realize they're in the wrong story, to later introducing the main story -- that of a much different, sexier Cinderella, one who sings in Castle Manana while still having to be back by midnight or else. Insanity ensues of course when she calls on her Fairy Godmother to come to her aid and dress her up; in pure Avery fashion we see numerous chases in which the Godmother goes ape over the Wolf and bends over backwards to literally chain him to her: the final twist is revealed in the end when Cinderella zooms back to her house at the stroke of 12:00 AM, swiftly changes to an industrial outfit, and realizes she's surrounded by wolves on her way to work. Hysterical animation, always a treat to watch on TCM's Cartoon Alley.