The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey souris to Hercules by
John Grant
Walt Disney Character description of The Fairy Godmother from "Cinderella" (1950)
The absentminded Fairy Godmother - she even mislays her magic wand from time to time - was not universally approved: some critics found her too saccharine. Thomas A. Nelson, who has written one of the best global, ensemble critiques of the movie and its characters, remarks that her "jovial and absent-minded good nature comes off as a bit too sticky, that extra helping of the cute and charming which irratates rather than entertains"....
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