Snow White (2025)
Directed by Marc Webb
Following the benevolent King's disappearance, the Evil Queen dominated the once fair land with a cruel streak. Princess Snow White flees the castle when the Queen, in her jealousy over Snow White's inner beauty, tries to kill her. Deep into the dark woods, she stumbles upon seven magical dwarves and a young bandit named Jonathan. Together, they strive to survive the Queen's relentless pursuit and aspire to take back the kingdom.
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…the rearranging and lengthening of songs first written for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs…
…director Marc Webb’s listless remake smothers the magic associated with 1937’s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs…
A “Whistle While You Work”-level effort has been put into sweeping every dated element of the original 1937 animated film out of sight…
For those upset the classic number “Someday My Prince Will Come” has been cut…
It’s been more ages since I saw the 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which still reigned as the highest-grossing animated film (adjusted for inflation) of all time.
Walt Disney’s animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the company’s first, and remains a proper masterpiece of 20th century cinema.
Charlize Theron, who played this role in 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman (from which this film borrows imagery more than once)…
…there are at least two Snow White reimagined, live-action movies: Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman, neither of which is produced by Disney.
…some of the ideas suggest that the plan was almost as much to remake 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman as to remake Disney's first feature…
…will make you long for Charlize Theron's more sinister take on the role from Snow White and the Huntsman, which was a far better update of this story than Disney's half-baked attempt…
Here is a movie that likely would have been made a lot sooner had Universal Pictures not so adroitly stolen Disney’s thunder during the beginning of the “live-action fairy tale” craze about 15 years ago with Snow White and the Huntsman.
In comparison, Snow White and the Huntsman now feels like a daring reinvention.
That puts it a long way from such soulless efforts as Dumbo, Pinocchio, or either of the recent Alice in Wonderland movies.
…not since Dumbo in 2019 has a nominal "Disney remake" changed so much of the source material…
This one joins Tim Burton’s Dumbo in being actively awful stuff.
That’s even less than Tim Burton’s Dumbo, which came in at $45 million in 2019.
It’s not the worst of the remakes (you’re safe DUMBO)…
I’ll take the light-hearted, colorful, romantic, cheery musical Snow White over Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms any day.
…those looking for stronger songs from Pasek and Paul might benefit from rewatching The Greatest Showman…
…my personal favorite is Waiting on a Wish, which reminds me of songs from The Greatest Showman.
EGOT-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen)…
The music, composed by Pasek and Paul (known for La La Land, The Greatest Showman, and that horrible "Speechless" song from Aladdin)…
…largely written by Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman)…
…new music from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the writing duo who created Dear Evan Hansen and The Greatest Showman…
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The showstopper “Waiting On A Wish” is the one new track that stands above all others, taking its place alongside modern yearning Disney classics like “Let It Go”…
…which has been a winner in more recent Disney animated films like Frozen and Moana…
…like the similar male rogues found in Disney’s TANGLED and FROZEN cartoon features.
…which has the tuneless banality of all such “Frozen”-inspired stuff despite Zegler’s strong rendition of it…
…though at times I felt as if I were watching a Tangled adaptation rather than Snow White…
…a less roguish version of Tangled’s Flynn Ryder…
…envisioned as a cross between skilled thief Flynn Ryder from Tangled and Robin Hood…
…a rowdy rascal who’s almost a sibling to Ryder from TANGLED…
…like the similar male rogues found in Disney’s TANGLED and FROZEN cartoon features.
Jonathan is reminiscent of the likable rogue Flynn from Disney’s “Tangled.” And, like Flynn and Rapunzel, Jonathan and Snow start out bantering and bickering before the rom-com realizations set in.
Since Glenn Close’s star turn as Cruella DeVille made 101 DALMATIONS a live action hit in 1996, the Disney company has been obsessed with turning all their animated classics into similar successes.
It perhaps started nearly thirty years ago with 101 DALMATIANS…
Unlike the live-action cartoon that was 1996’s 101 Dalmatians (why it took nearly twenty years to get Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella after the bucketfuls of money Dalmatians made will forever be a mystery)…
But it lands solidly in the upper end of the spectrum, alongside movies like Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, and Cruella.
…spin-offs like the “backstories” of villains MALEFICENT and CRUELLA…
But it doesn’t stand alongside the handful worth actually seeing—Cruella, The Jungle Book, maybe Cinderella.
Like Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent and Emma Stone’s Cruella, Gadot embraces the Evil Queen’s narcissism and cruel nature.
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The revolutionary plotline comprises redundant Robin Hood-esque tropes…
…envisioned as a cross between skilled thief Flynn Ryder from Tangled and Robin Hood…
…a Robin Hood like figure and NOT a Prince Charming…
Maleficent launched to $69 million in May 2014…
…spin-offs like the “backstories” of villains MALEFICENT…
Like Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent and Emma Stone’s Cruella, Gadot embraces the Evil Queen’s narcissism and cruel nature.