The most frequent reason for this praise is that this 45-minute Cinderella focuses more exclusively on Cinderella herself and on her interactions with the other leading characters than the Disney version does, rather than adding screentime-stealing sidekicks like Disney's mice.

Here she smashes her entire mirror collection in her rage, but when she tries to smash the magic one, its glass turns into a portal that magically drags her through the frame, trapping her inside the mirror forever. As for the Queen, her ending is a variation on the ever-popular 'she breaks her mirror in anger at Snow White's survival and its magic backfires on her,' but in a way that also recalls her fate in the Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child version. But of course this proves happily unnecessary, as when his two servants lift Snow White from the coffin, the piece of apple falls from her mouth. When the Prince discovers Snow White's glass coffin, he begs the dwarfs to let him take her home to his castle and try to find someone who can revive her. First she appears as an old peddler woman and tries to strangle Snow White with a brooch's lace band, then she appears as an old man with a poisoned comb, and finally as a little girl selling apples. Snow White lives happily with them in their pretty cottage covered in climbing roses, until the Queen finds her and makes her three attempts on her life, each time in a different magical disguise. The seven dwarfs are identical brothers named Sunbeam, Toadstool, Fawn, Hedgehog, Robin, Cricket and Tadpole – Snow White has trouble telling them apart, and they sometimes can't tell each other apart either.

Having heard of the Queen's beautiful stepdaughter, he visits the castle to enquire, but the Queen, disgruntled that she herself isn't the Prince's object of admiration, sends him away with the half-truth that Snow White was lost in the forest and is presumed dead. Though he only sees her for a moment, the Prince falls in love at first sight and resolves to find her. As Snow White is running through the forest after the Huntsman spares her life (with every tree seeming to turn into a monster – the one sequence this version blatantly borrows from Disney), she bumps into the Prince, who is hunting in the woods. She has a large collection of mirrors, and when she speaks to the magic one, her chant is possibly the most elaborate in any Snow White adaptation: 'Magic Mirror, tell me, do/Tell your mistress, tell her true/Answer me, obey my call/Who's the loveliest of all?' She also interacts with the Prince around the middle of the story. A voiceover narrator reveals that after the Queen became the kingdom's ruler following the death of Snow White's father, she oppressed the people, taxing them in order to spend their money on beauty treatments. The plot closely follows the familiar tale, but with some room for creativity here and there. Felicity and Richard live happily ever after, and are last shown with their own two children in the castle garden, where the narrator says that their favorite flower was the primrose. With this, Odelia dissolves into thin air, and her spells are broken. When the thorns stick onto her chest, Odelia is frozen in place, giving Richard the chance to kiss Felicity's lips. But just before the spell can kill him, Primrose's voice urges Richard to throw the rose that was once her body at Odelia. But just as he reaches Felicity's bedside, Odelia appears and casts a spell to slowly turn him to stone. Primrose's spirit speaks to him (still as feisty and no-nonsense as ever), and with her advice, he conquers all the obstacles. But at long last, the brave Prince Richard arrives, having had many dreams about the sleeping beauty. and, as it turns out later, contains a giant named Valdar at the bottom.

First she surrounds the castle with impenetrable briars, and later she surrounds the briars with a magical pit that opens to swallow up anyone who comes near.

As the hundred years pass, Odelia makes every effort to prevent a prince from finding Felicity.

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