A modern fairy tale

I guess it’s that time when Disney thinks traditional glass slippers are not cool for the young generation, but sneakers surely are. From the title of Disney’s new musical romantic comedy, Sneakerella, you can tell it has something to do with Cinderella. Yes, it’s based on the classic, but it’s a new, modernised version. They gender-swap the characters and then dive into sneakerhead culture and dance music. Whether this sounds like a weird combination, well, such a movie now exists.

Sneakerella was directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum and stars the teen actor Chosen Jacobs from It (2017). Set in modern-day New York City, Jacobs plays El, a young man from Queens who works as a stock boy in…