Film Review - Snow White (2025)
March 19, 2025
In 2012, there were dueling movies about the world of “Snow White.” Both “Mirror Mirror” and “Snow White and the Huntsman” attempted to do something different with the source material, getting away from the Disneyfied take usual associated with the brand. Now the Mouse House tries their luck bringing the tale to modern audiences, turning “Snow White” into a live-action adaptation of the 1937 Walt Disney production that basically created the business of feature-length animated entertainment. Director Marc Webb (“(500) Days of Summer,” “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its sequel) is put in charge of the reworking, which takes the fairy tale atmosphere of the original offering and turns it into a “Frozen”-style musical, merging the ways of storybook fantasy with Broadway-like song and dance numbers. “Snow White” has its highlights, and remains an entertaining picture, led in part by Rachel Zegler’s impressively sincere performance as the eponymous character, which gives a sometimes slack offering real heart, backed by a powerful voice. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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