Snow White

Manuel São Bento 3/19/2025 7:00:23 PM 8.4

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/snow-white-review/ "Snow White may not be the remake that changes many people's negative perception of Disney's live-action trend, but the truth is that Marc Webb and Erin Cressida Wilson manage to offer a more fascinating version of the classic tale. At the center of it all, Rachel Zegler shines with a magnetic performance, elevating the main character to new heights of complexity and charm. Her enchanting expressiveness and outstanding vocal talent make this Snow White one of the most notable protagonists of the modern live-action era. With a stronger, thematically richer script, a convincing romance, exciting new songs, and an updated vision that respects the essence of the classic, this remake proves that there's room to revisit old stories and make them even more tantalizing." Rating: A-

CinemaSerf 3/26/2025 10:58:35 AM 8.4

Ouch! Now this was always going to be a difficult story to imaginatively reimagine, and I do wonder just who Disney thought this was for as it quite radically alters the timeless fairy tale and augments it with some remarkably unremarkable power ballads and set piece choreography that wouldn’t have looked out of place at a barn dance. This iteration of the story pretty much abandons the fantasy elements of the original one and tells us of a wicked queen who has tricked her way onto the throne and turned the princess “Snow White” (Rachel Zegler) into something more akin to a royal “Cinderella”. Luckily for her, she encounters the enthusiastic bandit “Jonathan” (Andrew Burnap) who has broken into the palace to pinch some spuds, and next thing they are both trying to stay one step ahead of the Queen (Gal Gadot) who is narked  by her mirror telling her she’s just plain ugly so she wants them deceased! It does swing by the brothers Grimm every now and again, and there are seven singing dwarves to “work the whole day long”, but even they can’t breathe much life into this surprisingly mundane exercise in superb technical creativity but otherwise lacklustre amateur stage theatricals. The unmistakably familiar score from Messrs. Pasek and Paul keeps threatening to break into “You Will Be Found” from “Dear Evan Hansen” and aside from, perhaps, “Waiting on a Wish” the soundtrack - like the whole thing - is disappointingly forgettable as it avoids every potential hint of menace progressing through a fondue of gloop towards it’s conclusion. Thank heavens for “Grumpy” (Martin Kleppa) who is probably the only one on-screen in synch with those of us watching. If you do want to see it then cinema is definitely best. This will look and sound bland and forgettable on the telly, but will fit excellently with the other banal recent additions to Disney+.

rizzo13180 4/2/2025 9:50:13 PM 8.4

Rachel Zegler shines as Snow White. She delivered a great performance both emotionally and vocally. She is not the problem like a lot of people are making her out to be. Gal Gadot is the real issue with this film. Her acting and singing is atrocious. It’s beyond me how she made it this far in Hollywood, let alone bagged this role. I think she does some type of witchcraft on the casting directors because I refuse to believe they think she’s a talented actress. Her inclusion is even worse than the CGI dwarves which I thought looked bad from the trailers but I actually grew to like them as I watched the movie, especially Dopey. He was my favourite character in the film. Overall, it was a decent film. It was only when Gal Gadot was on screen, I just sat there and cringed. There’s so many actresses that could’ve done it better.