SNOW WHITE A mediocre re-imaging of the classic 1937 animated film.
SNOW WHITE
A mediocre re-imaging of the classic 1937 animated film.
"Snow White" is a "live action" remake of the classic 1937 Disney animated film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Let's begin this review with, and you know the rule:
NEVER remake a classic film unless it's at least as good or better than the original.
Well, this "re-imagining" failed. Simply put, the 1937 film is better in every aspect, including script, action, music, pacing, traditional animation vs. computer-generated imagery (CGI), editing, performances (both vocal and character animation), and especially the finale. Unlike the faded trailer below, imagine the original "crisp" technicolor print audiences watched in 1937!
However, the greater value of today's advanced film technology is the ability to re-capture the vibrancy of the original 1937 "crisp" technicolor print. Here, look at this:
Disney's Snow White Directed by Marc Webb Screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson Based on Produced by
- Marc Platt
- Jared LeBoff
Starring Cinematography Mandy Walker Edited by Music by
- Jeff Morrow (score)
- Larry Morey and Frank Churchill (songs)
- Pasek and Paul (new songs)
companies
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Marc Platt Productions
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
- March 12, 2025 (Alcázar of Segovia)
- March 21, 2025 (United States)
109 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $240–270 million Box office $205.7 million
The Story: Simply put, an evil queen hates her stepdaughter, who eventually flees from the castle for her own safety, but is found and poisoned into a death-like coma by the evil queen; our heroine is brought back to life after a kiss from a handsome prince who loves her.
Is it "fair" to compare the 2025 film against the 1937 original? Absolutely. Why? Because Disney intentionally made the 2025 film as a shot-for-shot remake of the 1937 film. Here, click the image below to watch on YouTube.com.
Disney did NOT have to write, produce, film, and release a shot-for-shot 2025 remake of the 1937 original, which would have eliminated an objective assessment of the 2025 film. As usual, those creative folks at Disney lack imagination, and instead, embrace a woke agenda, anchored in sexist, racist, and overtly discriminatory themes.
Both the original source material, "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm, and the 1937 Disney film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," ultimately function as "love" stories. Conversely, the 2025 film was not about the importance of love, but only functioned as a precursor to Helen Reddy's 1971 signature hit "I Am Woman," and the subsequent 2017 launch of the #MeToo Movement. The male lead in the 2025 film, Andrew Burnap, is not a "Prince Charming," but a thief, a vagabond, and clearly not worthy of Snow White's affection. However, after Snow White's death-like coma from the classic bite of the poisonous apple, it was blatantly hypocritical for Zegler's "Snow White" to require the non-Prince to awaken her with his vagabond kiss.
Snow White (2025) trailerOh, the hypocrisy. If heterosexual "men" are so contemptuous, why didn't Disney re-write the script to have Snow White awakened with a lesbian kiss? Or worse, film could have embraced beastiality with Snow White receiving a kiss from a dog. Or much, much worse, imagine lily-White Snow White receiving a kiss from a Black man.
By the way, Disney, Zegler is miscast as "Snow White," because she's clearly not as physically "fair and attractive" as the evil queen, Gal Gadot. Frankly, Ariana Grande would have been a better "Snow White."
What about the dwarfs? You know, the politically incorrect term also applied to little people, midgets. As with the 2025 film, "Wicked," and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), has Hollywood literally banned the casting of actual human beings a.k.a., dwarfs, midgets, in classic fantasy films? Instead, Disney's gives us CGI people. Should Little People of America, Inc. pursue class action litigation against Disney for its overt discrimination and intentional elimination of "key" characters in the original 1812 Grimms' Fairy Tales book, and the iconic 1937 Disney film! Where's the class action lawsuit lead by actor 4 foot 5 inches tall Peter Dinklage? Conversely, such a blatant oversight was not made by "Oz the Great and Powerful."
The overall tone of this film is dark, brooding, and just short of being creepy, which is reflected in the original and perfunctory Broadway-esque songs. "Snow White" greatly suffers from way, way, way too many Broadway-esque "speak-talk" songs that lack melody, lack a melodic hook, and are punctuated with overbearing vocal gymnastics. None of the songs actually moved the storyline. Again, when it comes to remakes and sequels: Never remake a film (or song) or produce a sequel unless it's as good as or better than the original. There's nothing "memorable" about the musical selections and soundtrack in "Snow White."
Given today's film technology, and the overt reliance of the entire production on the 1937 film as a template, of course, the direction, editing, sound, etc., are all perfunctory; nothing to write home about.
Film ends with an all-cast musical production, celebrating Snow White's womanhood, her triumph over the evil queen, and command of her destiny without the partnership or love of any man! Of course, everyone is dressed in lily-White clothes to only further validate the virginal purity of Disney's hypocrisy that Snow White is literally as clean as the un-driven snow!
Recommendation: Just watch, with someone you love and who loves you, the classic 1937 Disney animated film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," on Disney+ and be done with it.
