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Snow White (2025)

I honestly can’t remember the last time that a major motion picture was released that had the level of hatred aimed at it in the same way that Snow White. I won't go into all of it because I think films should be reviewed based on what you see on the screen instead of all the noise surrounding a film. The story sees Snow White (born in a snowstorm in this version), become a servant to the Evil Queen (Gadot) but when the Evil Queen orders the murder of Snow White, she runs off into the forest and comes across the house of the Dwarfs and with the help of a Bandit they try and overthrow the Evil Queen so that Snow White can become the leader she knows she is meant to be. 

This film might be one of the worst cast films I have seen for a long time. Normally there is someone that stands out in a sea of badness but I honestly can't say that there was someone worth praising. Even Megalopolis had Giancarlo Esposito to make some scenes worth watching.

Rachel Zegler can sing and that is obvious if you saw her in West Side Story. Her version of Whistle While You Work or the one at the beginning are the best ones that she does but whenever she sings is pretty good. However whenever she isn't singing then things fall apart because she is supposed to be leader material and yet she has no presence. Gal Gadot CAN'T sing. She is terrible and I don't think I have heard anyone sing that bad since Russell Crowe in Les Miserables. There were two songs that she ‘sings’ and the first one seems so out of place that I thought I was watching a SNL sketch and the second one was so bad that I was praying that it would stop as soon as possible. When she has to pretend to be the old woman it is a weird moment because the makeup is good and she looks like an old woman but Gadot doesn't make any attempt to sound like an old woman. Andrew Burnap is so bland as Jonathan. He is this film’s version of Prince Charming because apparently Prince Charming in the 1937 version is a bit of a stalker so here we get a bandit who is laughably bad that I didn't care what happened to him. In fact for a moment I thought they had done a live action version of Shrek because it seemed to almost be a parody. The other main problem with Jonathan is that there is zero chemistry between Jonathan and Snow White. None. I don't see what makes Jonathan want to risk his life for Snow White. There is nothing going on and if there was a bit of chemistry it would make Jonathan’s decision make sense. 

Snow White is nowhere near as bad as some people would have you believe and it's not as good as the other side would have you believe. The truth is what I suspected going into the film is that it's somewhere in the middle. It does feel like every bad decision that they could have made they did when producing this film. The CGI dwarfs are distractingly bad. The performances from the actors do shine through and there are some good moments from them but the CGI is quite poor for a film that cost nearly $300 million. It also seems quite cheap at times which isn't what you would expect from Disney. The animated animals were perhaps the only time that the effects seemed to be well done. 

Snow White is a mess of a film. It might be worth your time if there is nothing on streaming or in the outside world. I dont think it's the worst film I have seen at the cinema in 2025, that honour (??) goes to Captain America: Brave New World which fails at being an action film whereas Snow White does at least succeed at being a musical.


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