'Disney's Snow White' - Review Thread

[u/ChiefLeef22]

Director - Marc Webb
Starring - Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Andrew Burnapp, Martin Klebba, Ansu Kabia

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

Rotten Tomatoes: 47% (Rotten)

Metacritic: 47/100 (Mixed or Average)

Some Reviews:

The Hollywood Reporter - David Rooney

Webb proves equally adept at romantic interludes, attack scenes and production numbers, notably the joyous finale, “Good Things Grow,” with the entire cast outfitted by Powell in resplendent white. Sure, those poorly integrated CG little people take some getting used to, but this is the type of wholesome and uplifting family entertainment that comes directly from old-school Disney DNA.

Awards Watch - Erik Anderson [C+]

Snow White is more clearly made for children than most of the other Disney live-action remakes, and its focus on being a fairytale helps with that goal. This is a simple story that anyone can understand and enjoy, with a cheer-worthy lead and some catchy, if unmemorable, new songs. The film threads the needle about as well as it possibly could, which is impressive even if it doesn’t mean the film is actually great. You may not be whistling on your way out of the theater, but at least watching Snow White doesn’t feel like work.

Variety - Owen Glieberman

You could say that we’ve seen other fairy-tale rulers a lot like this one. Yet movies connect in mysterious ways. Who would have thought that a Disney live-action remake could seem this pointedly political? In the end, the most resonant romantic feeling “Snow White” leaves you with may be: Someday my chintz authoritarian will come tumbling down.

FandomWire - Manuel

Rachel Zegler is the heart and soul of this film. Not only does she deliver an impressive vocal performance, but she also radiates charisma and emotion in every scene. Her Snow White is fearless, fair, brave, and true like she should be, elevating the character to a new level of sophistication. It’s disappointing to see how many people will leave outside influences to shape their perception of her work because this is, without a doubt, one of the most memorable performances of the year from one of the most talented actresses of her generation.

Independent (UK) - Clarisse Loughrey [1/5]

With Snow White, they’ve finessed their formula -- do the bare minimum to make a film, then simply slap a bunch of cutesy CGI animals all over it and hope no one notices. The film’s prince, played by Andrew Burnap and, for some reason, called Jonathan, is essentially Disney cannibalising itself, as he has the same thief backstory and curtain bangs as Tangled’s Flynn Rider. There’s self-cannibalisation at work, too, in Sandy Powell’s costumes, which are dour replicas of their animated counterparts. At times, Zegler’s bob leans dangerously close to “little Dutch boy”. What’s most disheartening about it all is how predictable Disney’s choices have become.

The Daily Beast - Nick Schager

From a strictly political standpoint, it provides a more enlightened portrait of female independence. Such a nominal improvement, however, proves inherently incompatible with its source material, and the resultant awkwardness defines this misfire, whose every duplication is underwhelming, and whose every alteration is less a move in the right direction than a step on a face-smacking rake. No Magic Mirror is needed to identify it as the lamest Mouse House re-do of them all.

Guardian - Peter Bradshaw [1/4]

Those otherwise estimable performers Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot are now forced to go through the motions, and they give the dullest performances of their lives. Here is a pointless new live-action musical version of the Snow White myth, a kind of un-Wicked approach to the story and a merch-enabling money machine. Where other movies are playfully reimagining the backstories of famous villains, this one plays it straight, but with carefully curated revisionist tweaks.

RogerEbert.com - Nell Minow

Some parts of the film work better than others, but none of it has the sweetness and imagination of the animated feature. This “Snow White” is not the fairest of them all. It’s just, well, fair. The other core elements of any version of this story are all present here, with varying degrees of success. Near the top is replicating Disney’s version of the iconic magic mirror that answers the question about fairness (the mirror for “Sydney White’s” nemesis is the online campus popularity poll). This one is close to the 1937 film’s design, familiar to Disney fans through many appearances in various productions, from the “Wonderful World of Disney” series of the 1950s, when it was voiced by Hans Conried, through the popular “Descendents: Wicked World” series of 2015-17.

The Film Verdict - Alonso Duralde

Like so much of contemporary fantasy cinema, Snow White exists in a weirdly artificial netherworld, and not just where the seven dudes are concerned.

AV Club - Jacob Oller

For every attempt to replicate majestic shots from the original or to give them a bit of technological oomph (perhaps most effective as sunlight breaks through Snow White’s fearful first trip through the forest), there is a spurt of modern quippiness that pulls the audience in the other direction. It’s a disorienting take on a film whose success relied as much on its elegance as its beauty, and yet, thanks to sunny songstress Rachel Zegler, there is a talented throughline still obvious amidst the mess.

New York Magazine/Vulture - Alison Willmore

Snow White is, for better and (mostly) worse, a product of a corporation that has for years been lumbering after its idea of the zeitgeist with all the agility of an aging colossus. That, in chasing something vaguely progressive and YA-inspired with Snow White, Disney has turned out a film with some hilariously timely choices is a great joke, though I wouldn’t call it an intentional one. The most pragmatic aspect of Snow White is that with its plasticky set design and gift shop tacky costuming, it already looks like it takes place in a theme park — no adaptations necessary.

Consequence - Liz Shannon Miller [C+]

At the end of the day, the best parts of Snow White are the parts that feel genuinely real and authentic. If only there were more of those, and less screen time spent dancing in the realm of mind-breaking absurdity.

The Playlist - Rodrigo Perez [C-]

Films are supposed to be passion projects, even the biggest and kitschiest, but one wonders what in this material compelled Marc Webb to dedicate two years of his life to this hollow and soulless project seemingly meant to move merchandise other than hopefully what was a very handsome paycheck. White interjecting its social commentary, “Snow White” otherwise tackles much of the same ideas, but it’s all put together in a very familiar and garish package. The fairest in the land? Far from it.

[u/BlondeBorednBaked]

There’s nothing magical in Marc Webb’s movie, but it nevertheless feels uncanny; spending $250 million to make a film in which absolutely nothing works is a kind of dark art in and of itself -Toronto Star

😬

[u/probablyuntrue → u/BlondeBorednBaked]

Where the fuck is this money going, the absolute mountains of cash they’re spending on the most mediocre films

[u/lukewwilson → u/probablyuntrue]

I imagine it is mostly in the thousands of hours of CGI work since they insist on no practice effects in any movie and these soulless movies are all filmed in a studio of green.

[u/Blunter_S_Thompson_ → u/lukewwilson]

It's fkn wild, they really couldn't just go to the woods and shoot this shit?

[u/sentence-interruptio → u/Blunter_S_Thompson_]

Disney: "Would you like to direct Snow White, Mr. Eggers?"

Robert Eggers: "I'm interested. Now let's talk about budget for shooting in loca-"

Disney: "Never mind."

Robert: "I'll go easy on old language requirement. How about that? Hello?"

[u/poundsofmuffins → u/sentence-interruptio]

What roles do Ralph Ineson and Willem Dafoe get?

[u/underhill90 → u/poundsofmuffins]

Snow White and the queen. Doesn’t matter which is which.

[u/LiquifiedSpam → u/underhill90]

I would unironically love this if it were a weird dark male focused version of Snow White

[u/Bln3D → u/Blunter_S_Thompson_]

It's the Disney approach. Cut all risk until the soul is gone.

[u/HBPhilly1 → u/lukewwilson]

I do not and will not understand why they are so in love with blue/green screens nowadays. Idk how it’s gotten worst but somehow it has

[u/The_LionTurtle → u/lukewwilson]

I'm convinced there is some insane Hollywood accounting going on with their alleged CG budgets

Every studio fights tooth and nail to underbid one another, and there is no union to negotiate fair wages. In movies especially,many get paid way less than they would in other areas of the field just for the honor of saying they worked on a blockbuster film.

[u/AgoraphobicHills → u/lukewwilson]

Also Gal Gadot probably added an extra $15-30M to the budget.

[u/HKP2019 → u/AgoraphobicHills]

Give the lady a fucking break, she had to admit she's the second fairest in the movie.

[u/DesireeThymes → u/HKP2019]

Hard to give her a break considering how atrocious her acting has been. Why is anyone paying to see her absolute trash tier acting?!

[u/g0del → u/lukewwilson]

Even movies that are doing practical effects still do a ton of CG. It's pretty much inevitable nowadays.

[u/huskinater → u/g0del]

Dune part 2 won best visual effects at the academy and had a budget $60m less than this with a star studded cast.

Good practical effects makes the job easier, gives better results, and is much cheaper for the cgi guys. That and actually having a grasp of how the cgi guys work plus a work flow that takes them into account instead of just the "we'll fix it in post" mentality of these overly greenscreened productions

[u/PumbaofSherwood → u/huskinater]

And it’s absolutely insane how good Dune 2 looks also! Such a good movie!

[u/ThunderDaniel → u/PumbaofSherwood]

They made a partial "mechanical bull" sandworm for actors to ride on and shoot scenes with!

And then that Sandworm attended the Julliard School of Music Arrakis Campus to play Chopsticks on the piano!

[u/butbutcupcup → u/probablyuntrue]

I'm thinking monumental embezzling. For the minimum overcharging for simple things and just adding zeros to every single sale.

[u/madogvelkor → u/probablyuntrue]

It's Disney's special talent. Pay double what they should and get half what they need.

[u/Dallywack3r → u/BlondeBorednBaked]

I’m surprised it was directed by a human and not, as I assumed, by a sentient AI that hates children.

[u/Zumaki]

With all the computer effects in these movies, you really have to wonder if Disney understands what "live action" means. 

They should have made the dwarves be like, Tolkien dwarves. 

[u/BKestRoi → u/Zumaki]

Drives me NUTS they refer to the Lion King remake as “live action”.

[u/GemoDorg → u/BKestRoi]

Years ago when they announced that movie would be made, I thought "huh cool, so it's maybe gonna be like a different take on it, African tribes with lion pelts or something" and then they basically just made an animated remake in CGI which yaknow, isn't fucking live action.

[u/BKestRoi → u/GemoDorg]

That would have been cool!

[u/ordinarysuperstar7 → u/GemoDorg]

Seriously tho it should’ve just been an adaption of the broadway show with practical effect and makeup!

[u/mondaymoderate → u/Zumaki]

Lion King (2019) is considered “live action” but it’s also considered the 3rd highest grossing “animated” movie. It makes no sense.

[u/chadork → u/mondaymoderate]

And it was made and directed in VR. Like they created the whole world of the film in VR and Favreau directed in VR. Wild.

[u/Freddie_the_Frog → u/Zumaki]

“And my apple!”

[u/Taco_In_Space → u/Zumaki]

Feels like a universe where they made the sonic movies with him having human teeth.

[u/CptNonsense → u/Zumaki]

They should have made the dwarves be like, Tolkien dwarves.

They were going to. Then Peter Dinklage started shaming them for planning to diminish little people by daring cast them as dwarves. You know, because know one knows how to pull the ladder up behind them like Dinklage.

[u/No-Comment-4619]

"Watching Snow White Doesn't Feel Like Work."

Put that in the trailer.

[u/Mesk_Arak → u/No-Comment-4619]

You may not be whistling on your way out of the theater, but at least watching Snow White doesn’t feel like work

Wow, was that supposed to be praise for the movie??

[u/sniper91 → u/Mesk_Arak]

They gave it a C+

So it’s not so much praise, as saying that it’s not awful awful

[u/happyhippohats → u/sniper91]

It's called damning it with faint praise

[u/RFB-CACN → u/Mesk_Arak]

I mean, coming from a movie critic, I imagine a lot of movies watched during every year feel like punching in for work.

[u/overtired27 → u/RFB-CACN]

Also, the review excerpt begins by saying it’s a film more clearly pitched at children than other Disney remakes.

It’s very common for reviews of family films to say things like “not too painful to sit through” as parents want to know if it’s going to be a chore when they take their kids.

[u/tman37 → u/overtired27]

During Disney's hey day, though, they were making movies kids and adults loved. As someone who has been forced to sit through hours upon hours of ridiculous children's programming, being able to enjoy a movie that my kids also enjoyed was great.

[u/Zaryatta76 → u/tman37]

I dunno, I've been really enjoying "kids movies" I've been watching with my kiddo lately. Wild robot, inside out 2, even despicable me 4 was pretty entertaining. I think there's plenty of good kid movies out there including Disney stuff like Enchanto, Lucas, turning red, etc. The only movie my kid likes that I truly despise is Wish, but I love to hate that one so it's all good.

[u/writtenbyrabbits_ → u/Zaryatta76]

Wild Robot is my favorite animated movie of all time. It honestly blew me away.

[u/tman37 → u/Zaryatta76]

Disney still makes some good stuff, especially the animated ones, but the quality has dropped significantly. One of the issues they are having is they keep redoing classics but doing them poorly.

The Beauty and the Beast live action was pretty good but the actors carried that on particularly strong performance from each of the 4 main characters but even that seemed drab by comparing. Snow white is particularly bad because Disney couldn't get out of its own way first to appease Peter Dinklage, then to replace the 7 diverse non-dwarfs with 7 horribly constructed minions of hell when the entirely predictable backlash came from not having dwarves in Snow White and the 7 Dwarves. That alone would have probably sunk it but it just seemed to snowball from there.

[u/Zaryatta76 → u/tman37]

You're absolutely right about the live action stuff. I refuse to watch that and thankfully my kid hasn't shown interest. That stuff looks like a hot garbage cash grab that will be forgotten in a few years.

Another area that Disney is doing great in the animation department are cartoons. The new Mickey mouse shorts and chip and Dale are hilarious. The ghost and Molly McGee is also really funny and a great watch. And recently Win or Lose was so good and had me crying. As someone who loved cartoons growing up in the early nineties I'm pretty impressed with the state of cartoons right now.

And wasn't Disney's live action stuff always trash?

[u/probablyuntrue → u/RFB-CACN]

“Of all the movies I watched, this certainly was one of them”

[u/daughtcahm → u/Mesk_Arak]

They're trying to turn a phrase on the "whistle while you work" song from the OG (no idea if it's in this version or not).

Still, "doesn't feel like work" definitely isn't a positive!

[u/sleepyrivertroll → u/Mesk_Arak]

It's praise for parents watching it with their kids

[u/verikul → u/Mesk_Arak]

Just his way of saying the film is mid.

[u/MolaMolaMania → u/No-Comment-4619]

That is such a fucking damning quote. I LOVE IT.

[u/probablyuntrue → u/MolaMolaMania]

I signed up for feeling like I’m in the dwarf mines and this is what I get 😔

[u/Shad0wF0x → u/No-Comment-4619]

That reminds me of a Krusty quote for the ribwich.

"Mmmm. I don't mind the taste."

https://youtu.be/wI8iBWARGG8?si=0zA-Cxvf5tuGpIs0

[u/vulturevan]

Apparently "one of the best live action remakes of the last few years" was an extremely low ceiling

[u/RevolutionaryLog6095 → u/vulturevan]

Damn, even Mario, Detective Pikachu and Sonic live action movies are miles better than the Disney live actions combined

[u/andygchicago]

The Times:

Believe the anti-hype. It's that bad.

OUCH

[u/PayneTrain181999 → u/andygchicago]

Welp. That’s two underwhelming performances in a row for Disney.

Thunderbolts, you’re up. Let’s see if the MCU quality control rumours were true

[u/Bruskthetusk → u/PayneTrain181999]

If anyone could save the MCU it is the brilliant mind behind the Urban Sombrero

[u/PayneTrain181999 → u/Bruskthetusk]

They made an entire trailer highlighting all the proven talent they have working on this movie.

Let’s see if it blows up in their face, or if they were allowed to cook.

[u/duskywindows → u/PayneTrain181999]

They were allowed to cook!

They just had to carefully follow a recipe that was given to them by Disney execs, Kevin Feige, and of course the shareholders.

[u/knightress_oxhide → u/Bruskthetusk]

They are at the same skill level.

[u/skippythemoonrock → u/PayneTrain181999]

Somehow with these "live action" remakes, being bad and a failure are separate. They suck but make a ton of money regardless.

[u/ifedupwiththisorgasm → u/skippythemoonrock]

Disney adults will literally watch garbage and be fine if it has the Disney logo on it

[u/CaptainMagnets → u/PayneTrain181999]

Were we expecting this one to be good tho? Saw a flop coming the moment they announced they were making it

[u/probablyuntrue → u/PayneTrain181999]

When you’re in a CGI mess making competition and your competitor is the MCU 😔

[u/HandsomeHawc]

The single positive every time one of these releases is that eventually they will run out of movies to remake. There are only so many films in the Disney catalogue noteworthy enough to warrant one. Can’t see them redoing Oliver and Company anytime soon. Pocohontas is a no go. Hunchback is too adult.

Good riddance to all of these live action abominations, they have truly been awful.

[u/zorathekandiraver → u/HandsomeHawc]

Lilo and Stitch is the next one coming out. I can’t wait for it to loose all the heart and soul the original has and for stitch to be nightmare fuel

[u/pookiemook → u/HandsomeHawc]

They can make third versions of all of them 🫠

[u/JohnRCC → u/HandsomeHawc]

The year is 2036. Disney have just announced a Live-Action remake of Encanto, due for release this Summer. It comes hot on the heels of their remake of Frozen, which grossed $700m worldwide despite earning a metacritic score of 17.

[u/Fuck_love_inthebutt → u/HandsomeHawc]

Honestly I'd love a Pocohontas live action with the real story, depressing and horrid af. I'd also love a Hunchback movie with amazing singers and criticism of horrid people hiding behind a religious cloak.

But Disney isn't the company who would be able to pull off those two movie remakes.

[u/B00STERGOLD → u/Fuck_love_inthebutt]

Quasimodo would be Jack Black

[u/Memphisrexjr]

As the prophecy foretold.

[u/zzzzzzzzzzHHHHHHHHS]

First half is okay, it’s the second half it falls apart. The seven bandits were clearly suppose to be in the whole film and the dwarfs were clearly added in the reshoots and bandits scenes cut down.

[u/Fancybear1993 → u/zzzzzzzzzzHHHHHHHHS]

Were the bandits supposed to be the dwarfs?

[u/Mnudge]

To the surprise of none

[u/TheDawiWhisperer]

This movie could've been an email

[u/PayneTrain181999 → u/TheDawiWhisperer]

A “highlight and mark as read without opening it” email

[u/StreetQueeny → u/PayneTrain181999]

Straight to the bin folder without even reading the full subject line

[u/Rare_Hydrogen → u/TheDawiWhisperer]

"Weird. Weird? Weird."

[u/AgentSkidMarks]

at least watching Snow White doesn’t feel like work

That's quite the compliment...

[u/probablyuntrue → u/AgentSkidMarks]

You can just feel the excitement lmao

“Come on kids, we’re not going on a magical adventure, we’re going to…well not work at least”

[u/dIoIIoIb → u/AgentSkidMarks]

imagine spending 250 millions to get the same reaction the average film student movie made on a $50 budget gets

[u/BobSacramanto]

I loved the comment songs they made for this movie!

“I watched this on a plane and still walked out.” lol!!

[u/HKP2019 → u/BobSacramanto]

The only snow that's white here is what the Disney execs are snorting

[u/ScarletSilver → u/BobSacramanto]

"Even if I do see this movie for free, I'd still ask for a refund." 🤣

[u/salluks → u/BobSacramanto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgPDxRkci_A

[u/FinalFrash]

45% on RT is pretty high for a film of this shitshow caliber

[u/Saint_Blaise]

Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot are now forced to go through the motions, and they give the dullest performances of their lives.

Holy shit. Gal's past work in this area is hard to beat.

[u/probablyuntrue → u/Saint_Blaise]

Kalel….no

[u/atclubsilencio → u/probablyuntrue]

You’re putting yourself and everybody in gruhave danger, I needgeyoutagimmedastoaneee what happened t’it

[u/BoganRoo → u/atclubsilencio]

I needgeyoutagimmedastoaneee

bro 😭

[u/BestRiver8735 → u/atclubsilencio]

She talks like there is peanut butter stuck to the roof of her mouth

[u/TheUmbrellaMan1 → u/probablyuntrue]

"Enough champagne to fill the Nile!"

[u/prfalcon61 → u/probablyuntrue]

Where is the stone?

[u/OzymandiasKoK → u/prfalcon61]

Not one or two or three but four stones!

[u/doktor_wankenstein → u/OzymandiasKoK]

ZERO STONES, ZERO CRATES!

[u/pearlz176 → u/Saint_Blaise]

And enough champagne...................................to fill the Nile!!!

[u/Blaaa5 → u/pearlz176]

blows kiss awkwardly

[u/Groot746 → u/pearlz176]

Shudder

[u/gsauce8 → u/pearlz176]

Honestly the weirdest thing about that whole clip is that there's a part right before it that was very clearly dubbed over in post. 

[u/JJMcGee83 → u/pearlz176]

The best part of that movie is her character dies early on.

[u/[deleted] → u/Saint_Blaise]

Gal Gadot still getting big roles in 2025 proves that all you need to fail upwards is being hot

[u/Particular_Ad_9531 → u/[deleted]]

There are hot people out there with actual talent…why are we not casting them instead of the charisma black hole that is gal gadot

[u/NikkerXPZ3 → u/Saint_Blaise]

Have you seen the Snyder Cut?

She appears flying out of the blue and her Ninuninuninuninininu theme plays every five minutes....then it gets cut abruptly.

If I ever shot a spoof movie,Scary Movie style, I'd have Ninuninuninuninininu Wonder woman fly every 16 minutes for three seconds for absolutely no fucking reason.

[u/nolander → u/NikkerXPZ3]

Watching 1984 with subtitles and constantly seeing "Lamentations music playing" accidentaly felt like a running gag

[u/Alonebut-funny → u/NikkerXPZ3]

Get me a ticket now!

[u/GameOfLife24 → u/Saint_Blaise]

Don’t exclude Mark Webb. just proving 500 days of summer was an accident

[u/AmbroseEBurnside → u/GameOfLife24]

I’m one of the 10 people that enjoyed his Spider-Man movies but… definitely skipping this one.

[u/Zeal0tElite → u/AmbroseEBurnside]

Hired for the nominative determinism and nothing else.

[u/NotASalamanderBoi → u/AmbroseEBurnside]

I’m one of the 10 people that enjoyed his Spider-Man movies

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[u/QuentopherNolantino → u/GameOfLife24]

Dude's going to make an adaptation of Your Name, we are so fucked

[u/HassanMoRiT → u/QuentopherNolantino]

God noooo! Hollywood always ruins anime adaptations. Death Note alone was extremely unbearable and don't get me started on Dragon Ball Evolution..

[u/ChangMinny → u/Saint_Blaise]

Rachel Zegler is by no means bad looking but to say that she could ever be more beautiful than Gal Gadot is laughable. Had the same issue with Snow White & The Huntsman with Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron. 

[u/TheAceofHufflepuff]

Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that it's particularly egregious to remake THIS movie into live action?

At least with films like Mirror Mirror and the Huntsman movies they're distinctly DIFFERENT because of copyright. The actual STORY of Snow White isn't copyright protected so people can do what they want with it. Like how the movie Peter Pan 2003 isn't from Disney but Universal.

However, with THIS live action, they ARE just trying to recreate that animated classic into another medium. And the reason why it's egregious with THIS versus the other adaptations is this:

Disney had something to PROVE with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He wanted to prove that ADULTS would just as much sit down and pay full price for a cartoon along with their children. it's also why the parks exist. He wanted something for FAMILIES. Which is why I hate the whole "oh it's for kids." excuse...that's not what got Disney started.

And his gamble paid off majorly. Snow White and Mickey Mouse while simple, started EVERYTHING. And I think starting with that simplicity was smart as fuck. Plus not to mention, having just rewatched the original film, Snow White DOES have a personality.

She's kind, she's empathetic, she's caring, good natured, optimistic. Qualities that last I checked, aren't anything to scoff at.

My biggest issue with the live action remakes, is they try so hard to make their leads "Strong women" while forgetting what made these characters so likable in the first place.

Snow White was kind. Cinderella (Walt's favorite) was a hard worker. Aurora was gentle. Ariel was free spirited and hotheaded. Belle was smart and brave. Jasmine was courageous. Pocahontas was a leader. Mulan was a warrior. Tiana had dedication. Rapunzel was trusting. Merida was strong willed. Moana adventurous. Raya was determined.

But along with all these things, all the princesses still had Snow White's core personality traits too. Without that foundation of Snow White, we wouldn't have half of what we have. These live action movies seem focused on "Fixing" what was already fine. They also seem to be fixing things that people tend to misremember about the originals as well thus making more problems. The remakes of Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast are the biggest examples of this with Jasmine wanting to be a leader and the servants just outright TELLING BELLE ABOUT THE CURSE.

That makes things so much worse in the remake vs the original. In the original Belle HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE but STAYED because she saw something in the Beast the night he saved her. She didn't stay out of OBLIGATION like it could very well feel like in the remake.

Sorry I need to stop now I could rant about these for hours lol.

[u/JimmyTheJimJimson]

“The film’s prince….called Johnathan”

lol wut

[u/UsernameAvaylable → u/JimmyTheJimJimson]

Can we please wait for Jarnathan to show up for the parole hearing? :D

[u/operarose → u/JimmyTheJimJimson]

The most generic name for the most generic prince.

[u/Pasan90 → u/JimmyTheJimJimson]

Johnathan

I mean its not an unreasonable name for a prince. The name originates with a prince from the old testament in the bible.

[u/Narrow_Hat]

I hope this movie bombs so bad that these studios finally fucking stop these awful, live action remakes of old classics. They are nothing but cash-grab shit.

[u/GooneyBird36 → u/Narrow_Hat]

Lilo & Stitch is about to make bonkers money.

[u/MisogynyisaDisease → u/GooneyBird36]

I do hope they do SOMETHING different with it, but the trailers are near 1:1 to the original movie/trailers.

At least it looks precious, they did a great job with how Stitch looks.

[u/GrooveTank → u/MisogynyisaDisease]

How about the How To Train Your a Dragon live action remake where they got Toothless from the original How To Train Your Dragon movie to play Toothless in the new How To Train Your Dragon live action remake? What a score.

[u/MisogynyisaDisease → u/GrooveTank]

....didn't know this was a thing.

Just watched the trailer, and that was a fucking FRAME by FRAME reenactment of the animated original.

Why 😭😭😭

[u/Nrksbullet → u/MisogynyisaDisease]

Even his father is played by Gerard Butler, lol. I bet Jay Baruchel felt shortchanged.

[u/cinderful → u/MisogynyisaDisease]

The original had some teeth to it.

It rightly mocks tourists, Lilo punches another girl in the face and gives her a bloody nose, etc.

I expect all of those sharp edges will be sanded down to a smooth, flat, featureless mess that removes its truths about the native Hawaiian experience and replaces it with banal universality. They've already shown that the hapless fat sunburnt white tourist with an ice cream cone has been replaced by a native guy with shaved ice.

We can't be making fun of white people!!!!

[u/MisogynyisaDisease → u/cinderful]

That hula scene was lowkey in the trailer, and Lilo just looked sad and hurt. And the bump into the other girl seemed like just an accident. Nobody else fell.

I wanted to throw something 😭 they're gonna knock the suspiciously ND traits out of my girl, I just know it.

[u/cinderful → u/MisogynyisaDisease]

No shade to the wonderful little actress, but she does not seem in any way tough or crazed (or, frankly, traumatized). I can't speak to it since I am not Hawaiian, but it seems to me that they might have written out some of the Hawaiian-ness of the characters, and that is a TRAVESTY.

[u/MisogynyisaDisease → u/cinderful]

She's very very adorable. I simply can't blame her for anything in this movie, because she's just a wee babe and Disney molded her whole performance.

I hope for her sake it goes well. But otherwise I agree, yes, on first glance, they wrote a lot of the "Lilo" out of her to make it more palatable.

[u/velveteentuzhi → u/MisogynyisaDisease]

Prayer circle that however the movie turns out, the Internet is not weird about it.

Please let's leave harassing children for the roles they play in the past. We don't need another Anakin Skywalker deal where fans attack a literal child.

[u/spooner_lv426 → u/GooneyBird36]

Now if we can just get them to make live action versions of Treasure Planet and Atlantis

[u/PossessionSensitive8 → u/Narrow_Hat]

Mind you the live action lion King Prequel beat Dune II last year, and Lilo and Stitch is a high grossing film in the making. Live actions aren’t gonna stop because a remake of a princess who hasn’t been popular since the turn of the century flopped.

[u/redditerator7 → u/Narrow_Hat]

Most of them are successful, why would they stop if just one flops?

[u/Tr0nLenon → u/redditerator7]

Yeah.. this is being followed up by Lilo & Stitch..

It's gonna be huge no matter what happens with this

[u/chewywheat → u/Tr0nLenon]

I can see Lilo and Stitch audience being unaffected by the reception of this movie. They are both Disney movies but they are different enough in genre and theme.

[u/calling-all-comas → u/chewywheat]

Also the two movies are from way different eras. Hitting on that early 2000s nostalgia is big right now and while there is nostalgia for Snow White, it's not the same. Not many people are left who were kids when Snow White first came out.

[u/Throwaway91847817]

“Shit film everyone knew would be shit turned out to be shit”.

Shocker.

[u/Starwho]

I’ll wait until this is on Disney plus then watch it drunk

[u/andythekraken → u/Starwho]

based

[u/Consistent_Tea_2695 → u/andythekraken]

He is paying for Disney Plus how is that based. Not giving it even the time to pirate, now that is based.

[u/CarneyVore14]

I only think of Gal Gadot from that COVID video montage singing Imagine by John Lennon. And it’s not a positive thought.

[u/PayneTrain181999 → u/CarneyVore14]

“Enough champagne… to fill the Nile!”

[u/KnownNormie → u/PayneTrain181999]

There’s not enough champagne for Iger to feel denial this time.

[u/Groot746 → u/CarneyVore14]

I still can't quite believe that happened: a bunch of millionaire celebrities, singing about a world with no possessions from their multi-million dollar mansions. . .this timeline is nothing but an Onion article.

[u/Nebelskind → u/Groot746]

I can’t even comprehend it still. If that didn’t show people that most celebrities and rich people have no concept of actual life, idk what will.

[u/Traylor_Swift → u/CarneyVore14]

“Kal-El…no” delivered flat as fuck

[u/Call555JackChop → u/Traylor_Swift]

Max Lord give me the stoooones

[u/Worthyness → u/Traylor_Swift]

Still can't believe a director saw that take and thought "good enough! That's the best one we got!"

[u/lanceturley → u/Worthyness]

Two directors! Snyder directed his version, and then Whedon finished it and did reshoots. Somehow, neither of them thought they could find a better take from her.

[u/Space2Bakersfield → u/lanceturley]

We did twenty takes and that was the best one.

[u/DadmomAngrypants → u/lanceturley]

Maybe they literally couldn’t if she’s just that dull as an actress.

[u/ThiefTwo → u/lanceturley]

Were they wrong?

[u/lunchbox12682 → u/Worthyness]

I always think back to Mr. Burns film festival entry.

[u/CarneyVore14 → u/Traylor_Swift]

I totally forgot about that line!

[u/Wazootyman13 → u/CarneyVore14]

Though, that did pave the way for the Mr. Show reunion parody where celebs did Weird Al's Eat It

https://mashable.com/video/mr-show-bob-odenkirk-better-call-saul-eat-it-imagine-parody

[u/TheGardenBlinked → u/CarneyVore14]

Imagine there's no acting

[u/Daydream_machine]

It’s Snowver

[u/Electrical-Table8076]

"Believe the anti-hype. It's that bad." --London Times

[u/Illustrious_Listen_6]

The marketing for this film has been an epic disaster

[u/Dylan_Gio]

It’s such a bland movie I wonder if Disney drummed up the drama to have a scapegoat for low box office returns

[u/Dallywack3r → u/Dylan_Gio]

Disney learned it from Sony and that stupid and bland Ghostbusters remake that was 99 percent improvised comedy.

[u/Zeal0tElite → u/Dylan_Gio]

That's what they always do. I still have people trying to call me sexist and racist for not liking the new Star Trek shows, like you're not allowed to find a character unappealing if they're also a black woman.

Star Wars The Acolyte was the worst of these from recent memory.

"You're racist, you're sexist, this transphobic, homophobic, hydrophobic."

Comes out and it's mostly bad. Shocker.

Don't get me wrong, there's absolutely a movement of people who get furiously mad at a woman even appearing in a video game or whatever, but it doesn't mean you have to like it to prove them wrong.

Anti-woke people hated Star Wars Outlaws. I played it and liked it.

Anti-woke people hated The Acolyte. I watched it and didn't like it.

It's that simple.

[u/Hiroba → u/Zeal0tElite]

The “you’re racist/sexist” argument gives them a defense for their mediocrity. And I think that is what motivates a lot of the anti-DEI stuff more than anything.

For example, Moses Ingram was god awful in the Obi-Wan show. But it was off limits to criticize her, to the point where Lucasfilm + all the cast and crew of the series put out statements bashing the people criticizing her calling them racists and sexists. People are tired of being villainized and gaslit for pointing out the obvious and then having their words twisted against them.

[u/Effective_Ad_273 → u/Zeal0tElite]

It’s honestly exhausting. I remember people critiquing Amandla stenburg for her wooden performance and her performative activism speeches and all of her fans go straight to “we found the racist” “people hate to see a black queen win”. Then you have Rachel Zegler who I think is actually a decent actress. Much prefer her singing though, but my god her fans constantly use buzz words anytime she’s critiqued. “Incel” “misogynist” “sexist” “racist” etc.

[u/AgentSkidMarks → u/Dylan_Gio]

That's called fan baiting, and yeah, that's kind of Disney's bread and butter now. Drum up controversy so you can deflect any legitimate criticis by associating them with bigots.

[u/scotterson34]

It's gotta be better than the live action Mulan tho right?? That was a dumpster fire and a half.

[u/Mesk_Arak → u/scotterson34]

I'll never forgive live-action Mulan for removing Mushu because they wanted to make the movie more realistic...and then adding a shapeshifting witch anyway.

That and the whole thing where Disney, in the credits, thanked a number of government entities in Xinjiang, including the "publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee". You know, Uyghur internment camps. Fuck's sake.

[u/SparkyPantsMcGee → u/Mesk_Arak]

Or you know, by completely changing the central theme of the film: that you can achieve anything regardless of your gender so long as you put in the work and stay determined, in favor of her just always being a badass.

[u/Skylam → u/SparkyPantsMcGee]

I couldn't believe they changed that part of her character, the whole point of Mulan is she fuckin sucked at being a soldier, but she learned and persevered. Then they just changed her into a magical warrior born princess. Like what?

[u/FakoSizlo → u/Skylam]

Yeah the point of the story was that she worked harder and smarter. A big part of how she accomplishes everything is her cleverness . Deciding nah instead of a smart woman overcoming her physical shortcomings kids want magic woman is badass was just stupid

[u/Drunky_McStumble → u/SparkyPantsMcGee]

I think this is the core problem with most of Disney's (and Hollywood in general) recent output. The morality of it fucking stinks. There's so much media now that teaches the lesson that people are just inherently good or bad because of what they are, not what they do.

[u/UsernameAvaylable → u/SparkyPantsMcGee]

Her always being a badass might have been ok if it had been grounded - but no, they straight up give her chakra from naruto.

[u/FrankXS → u/Mesk_Arak]

They also removed the music. Mulan has some bangers

[u/Mesk_Arak → u/FrankXS]

LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS!

[u/ShinyBloke]

They should've of done a limited release of the original cartoon a month ago, I would've 100 percent gone to see it, it's a masterpiece and of insane quality animation for it's time.

[u/isaiddgooddaysir]

It is amazing that the executives at Disney still have jobs.

[u/Johnnycc]

I have nothing against either actress - but I want this to crash and burn because Disney needs to learn a lesson with these remakes. There has to be a breaking point with the almost-intentional inability to create anything of value that this company is stuck in.

Moana is the last classic animated movie almost 10 years ago, the live-action stuff is totally void of artistic merit, and Pixar is now nothing more than a sequel-spitting shell of its former self.

Let this disaster be the one that hopefully rights the ship.

[u/Petecraft_Admin]

Its funny that alot of media is focusing on Palestinian-Israel crap because of the stars and how that will affect this movie, along with "go woke go broke" crap.  In reality, this movie was never going anywhere because nobody gives a fuck about Snow White or the CGI dwarves.

[u/Three_Froggy_Problem → u/Petecraft_Admin]

I personally have a huge soft spot for Snow White, but it’s very much tied to the specific qualities of the original film: the warm 1930s animation, the nostalgic sounds of the music and voices, and the blend of whimsical fantasy and legitimately creepy shit that’s common in old children’s movies. A modern remake, even if it had been animated, would inevitably lose all of the charm of the original.

[u/NippleFlicks → u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

Exactly, it has a big nostalgia tie to it. As a child I found it both cosy and creepy (and to this day still do). It’s a cornerstone for Disney history of course, but just leave it at that. They need to stop pumping out half-baked live action remakes, figure out what they’re doing wrong overall (like Wish, or even Encanto felt like it was missing something) and focus on new projects.

[u/Unlikely-Fuel9784 → u/Petecraft_Admin]

This trailer keeps popping up on YouTubeTv and the CGI rabbit standing by the title splash at the end drives me nuts. It's a fucking rabbit. You couldn't get a real rabbit to put in a white room for 30 seconds?

[u/Brad_Brace → u/Unlikely-Fuel9784]

No see, rabbits don't look like rabbits on screen. If you want rabbits you need to tie together a bunch of code.

[u/No-Comment-4619 → u/Unlikely-Fuel9784]

Like Spielberg couldn't get a real gopher for the opening title shot of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. So they probably spent $50,000 to CGI one and it looked like shit.

[u/allthepinkthings → u/No-Comment-4619]

feels like we’re going backwards on effects. Puppets need to start making a big comeback, because cgi keeps getting shittier

[u/Puzzled-Tap8042 → u/Petecraft_Admin]

Snow White is one of Disney's best-known princesses. If the film isn't going to do well at the box office, it's Disney's fault for treating a classic in a sloppy way.

[u/kiyonemakibi100 → u/Petecraft_Admin]

I mean look how the live-action Dumbo didn't do that well either (90s/2000s nostalgia is much higher than 1930s/1940s nostalgia), and while Cinderella did do well, this film cost 2.5-3 times more than that did for some inexplicable reason. But some people can only see things through an endless tedious culture war prism.

[u/Archius9]

It’s oddly comforting seeing a trailer or reviews for a film I know I will never watch.

[u/DonnieDarkoRabbit]

Such a nominal improvement, however, proves inherently incompatible with its source material, and the resultant awkwardness defines this misfire, whose every duplication is underwhelming, and whose every alteration is less a move in the right direction than a step on a face-smacking rake.

Fucking hell, I need some of what these writers are on. The only reason I read reviews is to gleam their writing prowess.

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp]

To the surprise of nobody.

I guess the youtube comments song is the best thing about this movie.

[u/TeslaTheCreator]

“Otherwise estimable performer Gal Gadot” you sure about that man

[u/Tubey84]

Fair play to The Guardian for an honest review. It would have been easy for them to phone it in as a three star as a culture war leftist middle finger, but nope they just review the movie.

Regardless of your politics, if a turd is a turd, call it a turd. You only need functioning eyes to see in advance what this was, so the reviews are no surprise.

[u/Mastodan11 → u/Tubey84]

Peter Bradshaw loves a scathing review. One of my favourite critics' even if I don't always agree.

[u/scoobidoo112]

My IMAX theater had maybe 20 people in it, and I didn't get the impression that they were enjoying it all that much.

I went into this with an open mind, but despite the fact that I genuinely like Rachel Zegler, and the fact that most of the singing was pretty great, this was a terrible, ugly, soulless movie. It's probably the worst live-action Disney remake so far.

They apparently spent 280 million dollars on this, and yet the entire film looks cheap, small, lifeless, and green-screeny. The whole thing feels like it was filmed on two or three small-scale sets, with just a handful of people, and then they filled up the screen with bloomy, blurry, awful looking CGI. And that's before the dwarves have even shown up, who look like absolute monstrosities.

Zegler tries her best, and is the only aspect of the film that even slighly works, but the writing is so bad that even she can't save it. Gal Gadot is probably even worse than you'd imagine, overacting in every scene with her usual accent, and the romance with the not-prince fell completely flat as well, as him and Zegler have 0 chemistry whatsoever. They meet for five minutes, and suddenly they're in love or whatever.

It's such a bizar choice to turn this into a musical. All I could do the entire time was think about how amazing Wicked was and how this felt like a cheap, lifeless imitation. All of the charm, beauty, and atmosphere of the original is nowhere to be found here, and honestly, I wouldn't even bother streaming it.

[u/operarose → u/scoobidoo112]

It's such a bizar choice to turn this into a musical.

I've uh...I've got some news for you.

[u/Logical007 → u/scoobidoo112]

For what it’s worth they met for 5 minutes in the original and fell in love, too.

[u/RAproblems → u/scoobidoo112]

They meet for five minutes, and suddenly they're in love or whatever.

To be fair, that's how the original goes, too.

[u/Robert_B_Marks → u/scoobidoo112]

It's such a bizar choice to turn this into a musical.

I do feel the need to point out that the original was a musical...

[u/trizzo0309]

Boy, a movie where Gal Gadot is bad...

pretends to be shocked

[u/aruss15]

No one is shocked

[u/LizardOrgMember5]

I expected the RT rating to be worse - but it got almost similar ratings of the previous two Snow White movies from a decade ago.

[u/forkandspoon2011]

They should've just "Tangled" the Snow White story instead of whatever this movie is.

[u/Middle-Wrangler2729]

I was about to take my 8 year old son to watch Snow White because I was feeling nostalgic and excited to share part of my childhood with him. Right before going I started reading reviews and glad I did. Now instead of suffering trauma and possibly traumatizing my child, I purchased the original Snow White and we are really enjoying it together. It is possible that all of these horrible remakes are an elaborate marketing scheme to get people purchasing Disney's original films.

[u/andygchicago]

Pretty mediocre reviews

I suspect those glowing "early reviews" that the media picked up were Disney plants

[u/kiyonemakibi100 → u/andygchicago]

I mean, pretty much all those 'first reactions' for any film are plants, not exactly a shocker

[u/Tubey84 → u/andygchicago]

Well, obviously. Don't mean to be snarky but they were literally hand picked shills for Disney. They have to be positive or they don't get access in the future.