- Starring
- Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot
- Director
- Marc Webb
- Rating
- PG
- Genre
- Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
- Release date
- March 21, 2025
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
Disney’s 2025 live-action remake of “Snow White” reimagines the classic tale with modern twists. Snow White, raised by kind parents who taught her to be fearless and fair, faces a dystopian kingdom under her cruel stepmother, the Evil Queen. With the help of seven dwarfs and a Robin Hood-like ally, Jonathan, she fights to liberate her people from oppression.
Snow White Review
Thanks to fan backlash over off-putting comments made by its star Rachel Zegler and further outrage over a leaked photo featuring what looked like seven Renaissance fair rejects, the live-action Snow White—which began filming nearly three years ago—reportedly underwent so many reshoots and rewrites that it became almost an entirely different film from its original cut… and it shows.
Anemic and directionless, 2025’s Snow White is the cinematic equivalent of someone spilling two jigsaw puzzles on the same table and pounding the pieces together. Two concurrent and competing films, one features beautifully rendered vignettes and lovingly crafted sets that capture iconic scenes from the visionary 1937 classic and awkwardly grind against the undeveloped summer stock modern female empowerment tale crafted for “modern audiences.”
The result is a smooth-as-glass sea of meaningless, pretty pictures that build no momentum, engender no empathy, and leave audiences feeling sleepy and dopey.
Fortunately, even heartless Disney cash grabs based on classic medium-changing innovations come stock with the source material’s beloved music. So, there’s at least something for audiences to enjoy… EERRRT! You’ve all gone over. Bid again. While this iteration of Snow White includes the signature Whistle While You Work and Heigh-Ho, the rest of Snow White’s iconic songbook has been cut and replaced with generic and bland numbers that no one will ever remember, ever.
In fairness to song scribes Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman), Gal Gadot’s thin vocals and colorless performance could ruin pretty much anything. Yet, one would think that Rachel Zegler (love her or hate her), an accomplished musical theater veteran, would be a bright spot in a musical such as this. One would be wrong. While her vocals were certainly above average, she lacks the presence needed to draw in an audience. Much of Zegler’s performance was spent with her uncomfortably wringing her hands together, blankly looking at the tennis balls turned rubber-faced monstrosities surrounding her.
The Dynamic Duo of Gadot and Zegler weren’t helped by the rest of the disposable cast and certainly not by the nightmare fuel that this film calls dwarfs– of course, they don’t actually call them that. They don’t call them anything.
As it stands, Snow White is another failure in a long line of modern Disney films. The one-time innovator who used to set the standard has fallen harder and faster than Harry Reid on a treadmill. The only hope it now has is bankruptcy and a complete gutting and rebuild.
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James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
Hard pass on woke Anti-American Rachel Zegler. Disney won’t get my money until they dump this woke DEI Equity bs.
Couldn’t agree more! With all the race swapping and child grooming, they lost out support years ago. Nothing Disney in this home. It makes me sad… we took our Honeymoon at Disney World and wanted to do a second, but just a trip somewhere to the south will do!
Yeah this is one of those movies that deserves a 0 for off screen as much as on.
Thanks for watching so I don’t have to.
You earned the price of the subscription by suffering through this abomination. Well done.
Not interested in seeing Mud Brown and the 7 CGI Abominations. Snow White is meant to have “skin as white as snow” but they cast latina Rachel Zegler (who is as insufferable as actors get). Just imagine they make a live-action Princess and the Frog and cast a white or latina actress as Tiana (who is black)? It’s insulting actually.
Also it’s apparently offensive to cast actual dwarf actors???
Thanks for the review hopefully it convinced the 12 people who wanted to see it to change their mind.
The Huntsman being played by a black actor deserves a ding on Woke-O-Meter (forced DEI that is not true to the original Disney animated movie and doesn’t make sense in a European tale).
You’re right. I totally missed it on my notes. Prepare for a correction.
This cannot be on my watch list after what Disney has done in the last decade. Horrific comments from Zegler and complete disrespect for the original which was the pride and joy of Walt and commenced what set Disney apart from any other creative professional. This film epitomises woke even if the final product doesn’t always show it and must be destroyed at the box office as a vital smack-down to those that are on the wrong track.
The movie is not wokeish, it’s woke. Rachel couldn’t control her tongue. Disney couldn’t control their desire to destroy Walt’s vision or their desire to race every movie. It’s okay for a damsel to be in distress and for the prince to save her. Disney can’t go there and that’s woke!
I prefer the AI Song mace with comments on YouTube.
How does this rate as woke-ish?
A love story switched to a girl-power story is by definition woke.
Maybe woke-ish if it were an original story, but you have to look at the original and the changes TO that original. Every single change was woke, from plot to casting.
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