‘The greatest animated film of all time’ has been remade into live-action, which premiered on March 12th at the Alcázar of Segovia, and was released theatrically on March 21 of this year. Unfortunately, it has 1.6/10 stars on IMDB, 41% Tomatometer, and 74% Popcornmeter.
This movie only grossed $184.9 million against a production budget of $240-270 million. While the production, the story, character development, casting, pacing and soundtrack were decent, they needed more work to make the remake match the original, instead of a cash-grab, especially the casting.

It stars were Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Andrew Burnap, Andrew Barth Feldman, Tituss Burgess, Martin Klebba, Jason Kravits, George Salazar, Jeremy Swift, and Andy Grotelueschen. In the movie, just like the original, the Evil Queen tries to get Snow White killed, forcing Snow White to flee into the woods and find refuge with seven dwarfs. But this time, the guards are sent into the woods to look for Snow White and a group of woodland bandits band together to protect her.

In the original film, the Evil Queen goes to Snow White herself and casts a spell on her that can only be broken by a true love’s kiss, the prince.

The production was good, the settings were decently detailed and felt somewhat realistic, but that seems to have been the center of Disney’s focus while on production with Snow White. It may have been the only thing to interest the audience, especially critics.

The story is nothing special, except twisting the story to include woodland bandits and having one bandit be the ‘hero’.

The original German fairy tale depicts Snow White in a glass coffin, where a piece of the poisoned apple dislodges either from a servant tripping and losing his balance or he lifts Snow White and strikes her on the back, which brings her back to life. In the movie, a true love’s kiss is what brings Snow White back to life.

The only problem with the story is how much it contradicts the original fairy tale compared to the original animation.

The music was actually pretty good and Zegler’s vocals sounded beautiful, although they did lose the charm of early 20th century music, but that’s only to modernize the soundtrack to fit current technology. The music could have been a little better had the team on making the music worked to retain some of that charm of early 20th century music.

The casting was fine, but the seven dwarfs were all CGI and not treated as real creatures, which is evidence that some modern Disney remakes tend to not allow the characters to really develop into who they are.

It really doesn’t make that much sense to include bandits as the protectors of Snow White because first of all, they were not part of the original fairy tale, and the original animation doesn’t include them, not even Jonathan. Disney might have tried to make the story unpredictable and create tension out of interest, but twisting the original fairy tale doesn’t take the cake.

The movie may have had a great production and decent visuals, yet the story, pacing, soundtrack, casting, and character development weren’t done so well. With a budget of $240-270 million, it feels almost like a waste of money because it’s nothing special. The story failed to be interesting or revolutionary.