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  EW DVD review: 'Interpreter' letdownBy Ty Burr  Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman in "The Interpreter." RELATED
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS(Entertainment Weekly) -- "It's hard to make a film that's ... not embarrassing,'' says director Sydney Pollack. No worries there -- "The Interpreter" functions as reasonably engrossing social-conscience hugger-mugger, with Kidman as a U.N. employee who overhears an assassination plot and Sean Penn in deep Harrison Ford mode as the fed who can't decide whether to protect her or arrest her. But while danger lurks around every corner, so does Hollywood preposterousness: The ashen, blue-eyed Nicole Kidman makes one far-fetched African freedom fighter, especially when she's tootling on that tribal flute. EXTRAS An even more preposterous alternate ending, deleted scenes, features on U.N. interpreters and location filming at the landmark edifice, and an amusing interview where Pollack beats his chest about the benefits of letterboxing. Would that the movie had shown as much passion. EW Grade: C+ 'Cinderella'Reviewed by Chris Willman Though no feminist icon, she is the one vintage Disney princess who stays awake through the last act. This "Cinderella" may sometimes seem less Brothers Grimm than Hanna-Barbera, with extended cat-and-mice battle scenes threatening to turn it into an epic Tom and Jerry short, but that slapstick action represents the Nine Old Men (Disney's core animation team) on some late-'40s version of crack. The character gags work, the dreamlike ball sequence still induces swooning, and if you aren't on the edge of your seat for the climactic fitting, it's time to get back on the romanticism meds. EXTRAS Disney's current draftsmen pay tribute to the Nine. (To his fellow animators' incredulity, Glen Keane admits "101 Dalmatians' " DeVille/devil pun never occurred to him.) Several of the Nine turn up in footage from the little-seen 1995 laserdisc: The late Marc Davis beams as he marvels over the illumined face of Cinderella, which he designed. Meanwhile, possibly the most ludicrous extra ever is a program recounting 10 sports ''Cinderella Stories,'' hosted by a smarmy Joe Namath, designed to plug Disney's ESPN to trapped dads. (Who knew Lance Armstrong and Kirk Gibson had fairy godmothers?) EW Grade: A Click Here 
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