Highly Overrated But Still Good

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

One star for the dwarves because they are funny (and good in this), one for Emily Blunt because I love her (she's great in this too) and one for Chris Hemsworth because he's gorgeous and everything else about this movie is god awful. This is another one of those movies with shoddy writers must have written this by throwing darts at a board... ok so the darts landed on 1) quest for lost item 2) evil queen 3) love wins and 4) couple who hates but secretly loves each other ...but that's not even the worst of it. Jessica Chastains terrible Scottish accent is encredibly distracting, I mean it is god AWEFUL! Why the director didn't just tell her to stop and use her own accent, I have no idea but he/she should have. It's very obvious that she's not pulling it off so that was a massive drop of the ball from the director. Chris' isn't much better ether but his Australian accent covers it up a bit.The chemistry between JC and CH is non existent and the one liners are boring and predictable. I haven't watched Enchanted but it seems like this might be the live action version of that, it's also very close to the Chrinicals of Narnia. The ice queen story has been done before and it's always done the same so something new for her story would be nice because she's a cool idea.This movie would have been better as a made for TV movie because it reminds me of those awesome but cheesy D&D Sunday night TV movies. That way they wouldn't have wasted all that money and people wouldn't have disliked it so much because they would have accepted it for what it is and not expected to much from it.

The Huntsman: Winter's War. Friendly but tetchy Dwarfs, ghastly Goblins and miniature Gollum lookalikes who are nice and helpful. Beautiful production design with great costumes and good acting from Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain & Charlize Theron. Chris Hemsworth was meh. A prequel and a sequel as the previous film is glossed over with a Seven Years Later screen card. The script and direction lagged a bit but worth seeing. Oh, the plot? As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land; two renegades - Eric the Huntsman - who previously aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna, and his forbidden lover, Sara set out to stop them.6.5/10

According to legend, the reason why Rupert Sanders and Kristen Stewart were blackballed from "The Huntsman: Winter's War" was due to the esoteric affair they had during the 2012 film "Snow White and the Huntsman". I'll take it as a possibility. But if that's the case then why were all but two members of the Seven Dwarfs return and the other five didn't get called back? Granted their absentees didn't matter much, "The Huntsman: Winter's War" proves to be nothing more than a sequel that lacks fresh ideas or any creative merits that was never needed to be filmed and was just an excuse to carry it as a potential franchise. Here we go again.Chris Hemsworth returns as Eric the Huntsman and is once again on the brink of another epic battle with the evil Ravenna (Charlize Theron) and has brought along her younger sister Freya (Emily Blunt) to the scene. Freya has less baggage of wrath than her sister and has converted to evilness due to the loss of child by her killer ex-lover. Feeling that love is non-existent, Freya gather a platoon of highly-skilled fighters located in her ice castle. These fighters were once children who were once kidnapped and were trained to become deadly warriors to the point of being quite the untouchables once they reached adulthood. One of them is Eric (Hemsworth) the fighter who was instrumental in helping Snow White defeat Ravenna, The other is Sara (Jessica Chastain) another strong fighter whom Eric is in love with.Prior to his supposed death scene for breaking Freya's no-love compromise, Eric is thrown from a cliff but survives, but his lover sadly is placed to her death. The story then follows up from the events of the first installment as Eric was assigned from orders of the King by an ill Queen Snow White, to retrieve the magic mirror which was an integral part of Ravenna's pompous ways of exploiting her beauty was stolen. So Eric is joined by the comical dwarfs Nion (Nick Frost) and Gryff (Rob Brydon), they set out to find the mirror before Ravenna does and uses it for her evil purposes.While it does have a very in depth look at Eric's origins, 'The Huntsman: Winter's War" doesn't have much going for it plus the sole purpose this movie was made was to put a hole through our wallets and to start a potential franchise. There's no wide open expansion in their universe, the atmosphere is opaque and dreary though tone here seems more lighter than anticipated. Hemsworth was all right as the leading protagonist and does well with the material that was given to him. But his charisma is quite limited in a role that requires a vast amount of it and to make matters worse, he's forced into speaking in an unorthodox accent which he's intended to sound Scottish, but it weaves to sound closer to Irish on and off. Freya as a villainous is quite unconvincing as she's porttrayed as being just generally depressed over full-blown evil. Things start to heat up one Ravenna enters the fray by the the time the movie is half-over. By then it's too little too late and there's really not much to do to set the tone of this film. Even Theron's presence with her icy complexion and her flawless beauty could save this film.

The movie is OK on its own...sort of. It just feels so disjointed from the previous one. Even the feel of it is off. I wish they wouldn't have warped the entire story and I believe they should have still gone with Stewart despite the scandal. I thoroughly enjoyed Snow White and the Huntsman, where the huntsman had a connection to her...while here, the romance seems flimsy and lacks depth, the imagery is off as well, everything is way too happy - you can easily tell it's a different director. Furthermore, because of the feelings he made known in the previous film, the huntsman's relationship his 'beloved' feels false and forced. Basically, if they weren't going to carry on with the tone and direction of the initial movie, they should have just left it alone.