7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
Overview
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.7
Overview
In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film explicitly promotes a feminist political ideology by critiquing systemic patriarchal beauty standards and gender oppression, using body horror to expose the damaging effects of these social structures on women's bodies and identities.
The movie offers a significant critique of societal beauty standards, gender expectations, and class mobility, framed within a dark reimagining of the Cinderella story. It features intentional casting to promote body diversity and authentic representation, challenging exclusionary beauty norms. The narrative explicitly examines the pressures women face to conform for social and economic advancement, humanizing marginalized characters and highlighting systemic inequities.
Secondary
The film portrays a lesbian couple whose relationship signifies resistance and freedom, challenging traditional norms. Their nuanced depiction, integrated into the feminist and queer critique, explores complex realities and survival strategies within a patriarchal society, ultimately affirming queer identity and love.
The Ugly Stepsister does not feature transsexual characters or directly address transgender identity. While it explores themes of bodily transformation, these are metaphorical for societal pressures on women to conform to beauty ideals, rather than engaging with transsexual experiences or community. Therefore, there is no depiction of transsexual themes or characters.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film's main characters, including Elvira, Agnes, and Prince Julian, are portrayed with their canonical genders consistent with the original Cinderella fairy tale. No characters have an on-screen gender that differs from their established gender in the source material.
The film's casting and on-screen population are predominantly Northern European, consistent with the traditional European depiction of Cinderella fairy tale characters and the Scandinavian-inspired setting. No characters established as one race are portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.0
7.3
Critic Ratings
9.6
7.0
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