Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

David Moody When Josephine (Vera Farmiga) sees the combined images of the white of snow, the black of ebony and the red of blood she voices her desires for a child with such features. In time this does come to pass and Josephine and husband John (Tom Irwin) believe she is the most perfect baby, (who; as we all know, is named Snow white).The Joy is short lived however as Josephine soon passes away leaving widower John to look after infant Snow white.After a moment where he pays his final respects at his wife's grave, the scene cuts to John wondering in the snow. (if you look carefully, you may notice that his footprints show that he has gone round in a circle)> When all seems lost, John's fallen tears thaw the icy prison of a magical being (refered to in the end credits as: 'The granter of wishes, played by Clancy Brown). In exchange for his freedom the being offers John three wishes. The first is a request for milk, which is provided; secondly John wishes "I need my wife back, my queen." The granter of wishes cannot resurrect the dead (Whether bound by law, or it's beyond his powers isn't specified), but can offer a queen and a kingdom to go with her.The granter of wishes offers the position of queen to his sister Elspeth, (Miranda Richardson) but not before giving her a whole new look. Elspeth seems to posses much the same magical power as her brother, but she is not as kind hearted.Much of the story follows as most people know it, with the infamous "Mirror, mirror, on the wall...who is the fairest of them all?" line been repeated several times in one part by a very vain queen Elspeth. (Watch as she pulls a face and still gets her desired answer ;)) When suddenly Snow white (Kristen Kreuk) is fairest of them all this throws the queen into a fit of jealousy. Speaking of Snow white, Ms Kreuk plays a rather sassy version of her, as the following lines from the movie may show:Prince Alfred: Princess, you are so beautiful. Snow white: I am not; the queen is beautiful.Hector: The queen craves rabbit stew for breakfast. Snow white: You know that if there are any rabbits in the traps I'll just let them go. I'll go to the palace by myself. Hector: No you mustn't! The queen has ordered that I escort you. Snow white: I'm not afraid of the dark Hector.Snow white: If I was wearing one of the colours; say yellow... Wednesday: Yellow? That's my colour! First you steal my horse, now you want to steal my colour? Snow white: I did not steal the horse. (Actually, she did).As for the 7 dwarfs, apart from been named after the days of the week, and pertaining to one of the 7 colours of the rainbow, which they can magically create and travel by, they are also responsible for the weather. Quote:- (while in the process of creating a storm) Saturday: Ah Wednesday, you're back, the teapot. Wednesday: I can't. Saturday: What do you mean you can't? Oh! Ha ha ha good joke, hilarious now hand it over.The movie reaches its critical scene with the infamous poisoned apple (carefully coated with what appears to be wax on one side to be poison free). The queen disguises herself herself as Snow white's dead mother in order to deliver the apple, quite a contrast in character for Vera Farmiga from when she played the real Josephine at the beginning of the movie.False Josephine: (after Snow white bites the apple) No breath my dear? Oh, it looks like I've finally left you breathless. (wicked laughter follows as she leaves).When Elspeth attempts to remove the 'Josephine' guise and return to her queenly form she instead becomes a gnarled crone (Karin Konoval) with an even more grotesque appearance than before her brother gave her a magical makeover. It becomes apparent that it is her brothers doing as he explains: GOW: Elspeth, I gave you a life that would make anyone happy, but... Crone: But? GOW: Look what you did, she was no threat until you imagined her to be one.

Jackson Booth-Millard The first animated feature film from Walt Disney is a classic, and any attempt to better it with a remake is never going work, nevertheless there came this one, directed by Black Beauty director and writer of Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Caroline Thompson. Basically, sticking more to the Brother Grimm source, Josephine (Vera Farmiga) is blessed to be pregnant with a baby, but dies during childbirth, and father John (Tom Irwin) is left alone to care for the little girl. He gets caught in a snow storm, and collapses believing it is the end for him and his baby Snow White, but his tears wake the Green-Eyed One, or The Grandfather/Granter of Wishes (Clancy Brown) below him who grants him three wishes. Wish one is milk, and the other two wishes are a kingdom to rule and raise a family, and a queen by his side, the Green-Eyed One owes his ugly sister Elspeth (Miranda Richardson) a wish. So he turns her into the beautiful Queen of the kingdom, and with the help of a piece of broken mirror glass in the eye, John does fall for her. Meanwhile there are the seven magical rainbow dwarfs, named after the days of the week from the famous poem, red Monday (Michael Gilden), orange Tuesday (Mark J. Trombino), yellow and tall Wednesday (Tomorrow Never Dies' Vincent Schiavelli), green Thursday (Penny Blake), blue Friday (Martin Klebba), indigo Saturday (Warwick Davis) and leader violet Sunday (Twin Peaks' Michael J. Anderson), who is encased by Elspeth in marble. Sixteen year later, Snow White (EuroTrip's Kristin Kreuk) is grown up, Elspeth has pretty much taken over the kingdom with King John neglecting his daughter, but the Queen craves a new younger husband. With the magic of the mirrors on the wall the queen makes sure that she is still the fairest of them all, but one day the mirror tells that Snow White is the fairest, and the evil Queen is ready to kill her beautiful niece. Snow White runs away when she realises she is in danger, and when he gets half his body released from the marble, Sunday takes her to the safety of the dwarf house in the woods. The Queen believes the man she has got to kill her has done so and put her heart in the box, which she cooks and eats, but the mirror reveals she is still alive, and John ends up being trapped in one of them through a trap. After trying to suffocate Snow White with a sash, the Queen decides to use her small magic mirror to disguise herself as the princess's dead mother, create a half poison, half edible apple to give her. So with the dwarfs out of the house, Snow White is tricked into eating the poison apple, and Elspeth goes back to the kingdom to transform back to her beautiful self, but she has gone back to being ugly. In anger that the Granter of Wishes won't help she smashed her source of power, the small mirror, therefore releasing John, restoring Sunday's full body, waking all the gnomes, and restoring Prince Alfred (Tyron Leitso) from his bear state. In the end the gnomes strangle the evil Elspeth to death, and Snow White wakes with the true love kiss of the prince, the dwarfs go off to see Sleeping Beauty, and they all live happily ever after. Also starring José Zúñiga as Hector. Richardson enjoys her role as the typical pantomime female villain obsessed with her looks, Kreuk is beautiful but very dull to watch, one or two of the dwarf actors get their moments, and Irwin is most boring as the king. The story has darker undertones compared to the more colourful animated equivalent before, but that is maybe one of its main flaws, overall it is a silly live action remake fairytale. Adequate!

hand-eti I just got a copy of the DVD from a second hand store and watched it without ever having heard of it. It is brilliant! Of course it is not a 90 minute remake of the classic fairy tale. It is certainly not a children's movie either.The makers of this movie just let their imagination run wild and every single move is surprising and any idea that was really too much was happily included in the movie. You'll be smiling from the beginning to the end.And you'll get three fairy tales for the price of one - the main storyline of the Snow Queen (Andersen) and a theme from Snow White and Rose Red (Grimm) are included as well.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews I won't claim that I've seen particularly many adventure/fantasy flicks, or many fairy tale films, or even more than three versions of this story(the other two being Snow White in the Dark Forest and the Disney cartoon version). But I will say that this is pretty thin. The plot is changed around a bit, from the original(well, at least I think so... never read it. I'm not a big fan of fairy tales), possibly to surprise the audience, at least a little. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work. It really just serves to distract the viewer slightly from the poor quality of the film. The pacing is completely off, most of the time you're bored out of your mind. The acting ranges, but most of it is sub-par. For some reason, half of the main cast consists of ethnics and other groups of people who really shouldn't be in a western(the part of the world, not the movie genre with cowboys and gunfights) fairy tale. I guess they wanted something unique, but it just seems terribly out of place(no offense to anyone ethnic; I'd be just as opposed to a film set in Spain featuring an all-white cast). The hunter and the king are... Mexican, it appears, in spite of them being supposed to be typical white folk. Kreuk really has far too dark skin to be Snow White, despite clearly having done all in her power(or was that the make-up department? Anyway...) to get pale. One of the 'dwarfs' was clearly a normally-sized man(though it's not as bad as 'in the Dark Forest' where only one or two of them were actually midgets). Speaking of the dwarfs, they act astoundingly… jolly. They seemed far too merry, considering they're supposed to be miners in the original fairy tale. I mean, I can accept that they're happy or positive, but the writer or director practically turned them into Tele-tubbies. Most of the new story elements seem stupid and unneeded, though I liked the addition of the queen's past. The ending suffers from dangerous amounts of Deus Ex Machina, probably because the writer had written him or herself into a hole, and decided to just have it end in an unsatisfying and abrupt manner. The whole 'fairest of them all' bit with the mirrors was painfully overdone and really, really overplayed. The special effects are nothing special. All in all, I suggest you either read the book or dust off your copy of the Disney version instead of wasting any time on this film. I recommend this only to kids who've seen the Disney version more times than they care to keep track of, and want to see a lesser version to remind themselves of how good Disney's version actually is, all things considered. No one else should bother. 1/10