Cindy Goes To A Party

Poor Cindy! After her best friend postpones a b-ball rematch because of a party the next day, Cindy is feeling insecure about being a tomboy. Assuming that she did not get an invite because other may have thought that she would prefer fishing instead, Cindy tries to keep a brave face and denies in her best southern accent that she even wants to go.

But fret not Cindy, for your Fairy Godmother looks something like Audrey Tautou and she is here to teach you the social graces necessary to pass...behave as a young girl. So the transformation begins with getting our tomboy into a dress, Cindy rebels a bit but Amelie sets her straight. Poor Cindy's b-ball friend is brought into this social engineering scheme and together the two friends are bombarded with a series of rules to follow so as to not ruin the festivities.

The rules are reasonable but the scenes in which they are presented tends to skew the message. Dennis is clearly the more aggressive and clumsy of the two kids and yet why did he receive an invitation when Cindy did not? Was it to even out the number of boys or is this a message that butchiness is not becoming in a young lady. Then while playing musical chairs, Cindy is admonished not to tease people and to be a good winner but both the victim of Cindy's teasing and the loser of the game are both boys. So Cindy concedes to a tie and learns that she has to be mindful of the feelings of boys should they lose to her.

The party appears to proceed swimmingly; the games they play cannot be as fun as the soundtrack makes it out to be even if these were simpler times. What I cannot figure out is how old Cindy, Forrest Gump and co are. Cindy might be as tall as Fairy Amelie but doesn't look as mature and the games change from wholesome cup-chasing to the dreaded spin-the-bottle. We never find out what happened after the bottle twirled to Dennis....

Lots of oral action at this party don't you think? Still, I wonder if this Mary lives with any Parents or Guardians since she is the one passing out cake! I don't think I've attended a b-day party where a child did that and I know that is not the entitled Gen Yer in me saying that.

So the party winds down and Cindy has developed a Stockholm Syndrome-like attachment to her Fairy Godmother. When she finally awakes, there is the Fairy in real life. Apparently, she is actually Mary's sister Nancy and she had forgotten to deliver the invitation 3 days previous. Cindy is ever so thankful and leave open for interpretation why Cindy fantasized about Nancy in the first place. The assumption is that this is Disney magic on the cheap and that Nancy is too busy parking in cars with boys in real life to have ever met her younger sister's tomboy acquaintance. Of course, my version is more interesting as this event serves as the foundation of Cindy's future involvement with the Daughters of Bilitus

Cindy Goes to a Party