Snow White or Disney's Snow White is a musical fantasy movie and a live-action remake of the 1937 film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Productions was Walt Disney Pictures and Marc Platt Productions with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in charge of distribution. Erin Cressida Wilson wrote while Marc Webb directed.
The story is, the Evil Queen rules over a once peaceful kingdom with an iron fist. After seeing an enough of this ruthlessness, Show White decides to join others to put a stop to the Queen's rule and liberate the kingdom. But the Evil Queen won't go down without a fight.
Initial Reaction
This wasn't a movie I was really looking forward to mainly because apparently the PR department forgot to tell Rachel Zegler not to make an ass out of herself. But I figured I might as well review because I thought you guys would like that.
Cons
We've got three big negatives. Let's start off with the songs. A majority of them are very forgettable. I mean it. I only remember two of them. There's "Heigh-Oh" but that's not this movie's own original song that's from the 1937 film. Sure they changed just a little bit, but it's still a song people are gonna affiliate with the 1937 film. Then there's the villain song "All is Fair", but I'm gonna remember that one for a very different reason. I'll go into details why when I touch upon performances. But all of the other songs, nobody's gonna remember them. Then there's the Seven Dwarfs. Sure they have their personalities, but the CGI on them is so uncanny that whenever they're on the screen you're just gonna be taken out of the experience. I mean it, if you thought they looked creepy in the trailers, just watch them go through entire scenes, you'll feel very uncomfortable very quick. Disney will more than likely NOT learn any lessons from this but if they learn one, hopefully it's let never give realistic skin texture to designs that are meant to be cartoony. And what's funny is Disney could've avoided this if they had just hired actual actors. But no, they thought uncanny valley was a better idea. Then there's the story. Remember all those times Rachel Zegler was saying stupid things like how Snow White won't be rescued by the prince and all that other crap? Well that stuff didn't happen. When watching this movie there's a clear as day clash going on. It's trying to recapture stuff the original movie did but at the same time trying to be different from the original. You really start to notice it when after Snow White leaves the Dwarfs' house and meets the bandits aka the group of characters who were gonna replace the Dwarfs. Cause after that meeting you can tell that stuff was just reshoot to hell. So we get a Frankenstein of a movie.
Middle Ground
The only thing I've got is Marc Webb's directing. Now if you watch his previous films such as [500] Days of Summer & his Amazing Spider-Man films, the guy clearly has a great style. But here don't see much of it. Mainly because he more than likely had to work with what he got from those previously mentioned reshoots. So hey, A for effort.
Pros
I've got two, one goes to the performances from Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot. Now Rachel isn't gonna set the world on fire with this performance, but given the polar opposite mishmash of material she had to work with, it's amazing she was able to get a good performance. Then there's Gal Gadot. Now I've heard complaints about how hammy she is, but ya know what? I liked it. Much like Rachel, she's got a mess of script to work. So yes, it's a bit over the top, but hey, it's much pretty than being a bore. And because of that hammy acting it's one of the reasons I remember her villain song. The last aspect I'll write about is the pacing. While the movie isn't good at least it's a breeze to get through.
So yeah folks, not very good. But yet at the same time I have seen much worse.
My final rating is, Bad, But Harmless.
That's all for now. Come back on Monday, Mar 24th, for my comic book review of Batman: Hush. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.
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