Encouraged no doubt by the enormous success of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Maleficent, the revisionist take on Sleeping Beauty that starred Angelina Jolie as the misunderstood witch, Disney gives another one of its animated classics the live-action makeover. ‘Cinderella’, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a lush but frankly lifeless retelling of the much-loved fairytale. The film suffers on account of its generic storytelling and inert direction. Screenwriter Chris Weitz brings no twists or surprises to the classic storyline like Maleficent did, and Branagh, while mounting an opulent spectacle, doesn’t have the distinct visual style of Burton.