3/5

2/5. It is obviously worse than I thought.

Hate to say it, but people aren't liking it. Theaters are borderline empty, and it's getting a lot of low ratings, from critics and audiences alike. Hollywood is hiding the bad ratings though from major rating sites. Seriously, go check out iMDB, the rating for it is hidden. Some sites that doesn't cave into Hollywood have their ratings for it though, two of them currently have it with a rating 1.4/10 and a 13%. Rotten Tomatoes has it less than 50% rotten.

Please don't delete this, I left a while ago coz my comments kept getting deleted but I'll stop by this one time just to give my review.

While the theater was practically empty while I was there, that's probably either due to Disney's history of inferior remakes or Rachel Zegler's reputation. But if you give it a chance despite that, I thought it was pretty good. Loved the songs, the Evil Queen's defeat, adding a more "resist/end the Evil Queen's tyranny" theme to it, and the twist on who the narrator is. And they give a reason as to why she is called Snow White. While there were some major deviations, it felt like it had more soul than a lot of the previous remakes.

How ironic that a live-action remake is better than the MCU film of the same year. But this might be my second favorite remake after Beauty and the Beast. Depending on what I hear I might even give the Lilo and Stitch remake a chance. You never know what they might do.

5/5

I don't think it was good, but it was kinda funny to watch. The idea to add new music wasn't bad, and the music itself wasn't bad either (love her or hate her Zegler has an amazing voice) but it seemed like whoever wrote it was trying to write Broadway music instead of Disney music.

The Lion King got a Broadway show that made like 2 billion dollars and I think what's so iconic about it is that it's first and foremost a Disney movie with the Disney formula in the songs then a Broadway show, not the other way around.

And forgetting the CGI that really did the dwarves dirty, the idea of changing the story to make Snow White stand up to the queen is awesome. It just wasn't fleshed out enough or given the space to breathe enough for me to enjoy it. It's like they couldn't pick what they wanted: new story that redefines the original (like the Maleficent movies, which were successful) or play super safe and make it a copy and paste like Lion King 2019. And I think that lack of decision making on whoever wrote the story's part really took away from what it could have been.

But yeah, those are just my thoughts lol