Written by Erin Cressida Wilson
Directed by Marc Webb
Snow White: "To honor the day I was born, my father named me Snow White."
I would've watched this sooner but I was busy and I thought I'd let the dust settle on this discourse it attracted. Mirror, mirror, on the wall - is this Snow White the worst of all? Not quite, not quite.
It's certainly not as good as it could've been and it's not hard to see why some of the changes didn't go down well with audiences but it's surprisingly okay for the most part. You've got two divisive leads and at least one of them was on good form here.
Rachel Zegler has become one of those Gen Z actors who somewhat has annoyed a large segment of those online but credit given where it's due, she's not actually miscast here. In fact, I'd say she's pretty delightful as the titular Disney princess and had the characteristics down nicely.
Snow White remained a likeable and selfless character who seemed dismayed by the misfortune of her people but unable to stand up to get stepmother, the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot). It also didn't help that that Queenie Dearest wanted the Huntsman (Andy Kabia) to kill her. Luckily for Snow White, the Huntsman had too much of a conscience to do that.
Then there's the other players in Snow White's story. I hated the CGI dwarves but at least the voice acting for Doc (Jeremy Swift), Bashful (Tituss Burgess), Dopey (Andrew Barth Feldman), Grumpy (Martin Klebba), Sneezy (Jason Kravits), Happy (George Salazar) and Sleepy (Andy Grotelueschen). I also thought their relationship with Snow White was modernised pretty well.
As for the love interest, well he's a bandit named Jonathan (Andrew Burnap) and the chemistry between him and Snow White was decent enough. It still however didn't play that differently to how the romance with the Prince in the 1937 movie played out.
The Evil Queen's downfall though was different but fitting for the movie. Saying that, I cannot deny that Gal Gadot was miscast for the part and her villain song - All Is Fair was genuinely horrendous. Gadot could've had so much fun with this role but she's horribly stiff throughout the whole film and never feels like a genuine threat either.
- Greta Gerwig wrote some of the script for this movie, though not enough to get credited. I'm pretty sure she's happy about that though.
- Snow White making a point of remembering names certainly played it's part in cementing the Evil Queen's downfall.
- Standout music: Waiting On A Wish, Princess Problems, The Silly Song and Good Things Grow are decent new songs for the movie.
- Chronology: It's based on the 1812 story though it's clearly meant to be 16th century Germany.
I'm going to slightly go against the grain here and say that I thought this version of Snow White was okay at best. Some of the changes worked, some didn't and Rachel Zegler did fine as the title character.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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