Snow White And The Huntsman Movie Reviews

Is it right to tamper with tales we have actually grown up on? Yes. It's okay to experiment with fairy tales as long as it's gripping, racy and, if need be, deadly. And the level of experimenting could range from anything between twists and turns in the storyline to making the evil Queen look much more conniving... much more dangerous... much more larger than life. Believe it or not, the evil Ravenna here overshadows Snow White in every sense of the word

Someday my prince will come...' I can still recall how the syrupy texture of Adriana Caselotti's fanciful aspirations, surrounded by seven attentive dwarves, filled up the cheerful frames of the Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White's romantic impulses are so deeply imbued in our psyche; you little expect her to be anything else but a frail and fair picture of adorability at its acutest. Now to be fair, always the operative word

Snow White (Kristen Stewart) is orphaned early after the death of her father by the hands of her step-mother. Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron), the dark witch who devours all the beauty in the world and destroys one kingdom after another, spells doom on Snow White’s kingdom as well. Snow White is made a prisoner in her own castle and the queen indulges in sucking out the youth and beauty from all the beautiful girls and the strength from the hearts of boys

The film is a lumbering, occasionally good looking pseudo epic that walks a bizarre line between teen-centric tripe and wannabe dark war drama. Based on the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale and starring Twilight star Kristen Stewart, Snow White and the Huntsman is a cheesy and hammy cocktail, and seemingly proud of it. First time director Rupert Sanders has little in command outside of the lavishly detailed CGI and the intricate text of the end credits