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The first animated feature film from Walt Disney is a classic, and any attempt to better it with a remake is never going work, nevertheless there came this one, directed by Black Beauty director and writer of Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Caroline Thompson. Basically, sticking more to the Brother Grimm source, Josephine (Vera Farmiga) is blessed to be pregnant with a baby, but dies during childbirth, and father John (Tom Irwin) is left alone to care for the little girl. He gets caught in a snow storm, and collapses believing it is the end for him and his baby Snow White, but his tears wake the Green-Eyed One, or The Grandfather/Granter of Wishes (Clancy Brown) below him who grants him three wishes. Wish one is milk, and the other two wishes are a kingdom to rule and raise a family, and a queen by his side, the Green-Eyed One owes his ugly sister Elspeth (Miranda Richardson) a wish. So he turns her into the beautiful Queen of the kingdom, and with the help of a piece of broken mirror glass in the eye, John does fall for her. Meanwhile there are the seven magical rainbow dwarfs, named after the days of the week from the famous poem, red Monday (Michael Gilden), orange Tuesday (Mark J. Trombino), yellow and tall Wednesday (Tomorrow Never Dies' Vincent Schiavelli), green Thursday (Penny Blake), blue Friday (Martin Klebba), indigo Saturday (Warwick Davis) and leader violet Sunday (Twin Peaks' Michael J. Anderson), who is encased by Elspeth in marble. Sixteen year later, Snow White (EuroTrip's Kristin Kreuk) is grown up, Elspeth has pretty much taken over the kingdom with King John neglecting his daughter, but the Queen craves a new younger husband. With the magic of the mirrors on the wall the queen makes sure that she is still the fairest of them all, but one day the mirror tells that Snow White is the fairest, and the evil Queen is ready to kill her beautiful niece. Snow White runs away when she realises she is in danger, and when he gets half his body released from the marble, Sunday takes her to the safety of the dwarf house in the woods. The Queen believes the man she has got to kill her has done so and put her heart in the box, which she cooks and eats, but the mirror reveals she is still alive, and John ends up being trapped in one of them through a trap. After trying to suffocate Snow White with a sash, the Queen decides to use her small magic mirror to disguise herself as the princess's dead mother, create a half poison, half edible apple to give her. So with the dwarfs out of the house, Snow White is tricked into eating the poison apple, and Elspeth goes back to the kingdom to transform back to her beautiful self, but she has gone back to being ugly. In anger that the Granter of Wishes won't help she smashed her source of power, the small mirror, therefore releasing John, restoring Sunday's full body, waking all the gnomes, and restoring Prince Alfred (Tyron Leitso) from his bear state. In the end the gnomes strangle the evil Elspeth to death, and Snow White wakes with the true love kiss of the prince, the dwarfs go off to see Sleeping Beauty, and they all live happily ever after. Also starring José Zúñiga as Hector. Richardson enjoys her role as the typical pantomime female villain obsessed with her looks, Kreuk is beautiful but very dull to watch, one or two of the dwarf actors get their moments, and Irwin is most boring as the king. The story has darker undertones compared to the more colourful animated equivalent before, but that is maybe one of its main flaws, overall it is a silly live action remake fairytale. Adequate!

SPOILERS: This is not nearly as bad as it sounds. When you figure that Disney's Snow White is one of the top 50 U.S. films of all time (and the best thing Disney has ever done), you can understand why Hallmark and writer/director Caroline Thompson (who did such a good job on Black Beauty and Edward Scissorhands) would not want to do that version of the fairy tale. And unlike Alice in Wonderland, Snow White is not sacred material; not only has it changed drastically over the past 180+ years, but versions of the basic storyline are present in the folklore of many different countries and languages. The Hallmark version is much closer to the original (and darker) Brothers Grimm story. So the best way to watch this is to put aside any preconceived notions and view it with an open mind.One thing it has going for it is that the production designer did the usual Hallmark fairy tale magic with the look of the thing. Very nice.Casting was a little weak. Kristan Kreuk's performance as the title character is feeble; the director should have been able to get a whole lot more from her, but Miranda Richardson as the Evil Queen was wonderful. Fortunately the story is centered around the Queen, and Richardson is able carry the whole film. I don't know if this was by design or was done in post, they may have trimmed a lot of Kreuk's stuff when they realized it was so awful. But at least they worked hard with the lighting and the digital color correction to lighten Kreuk's complexion-she is still not physically believable as Snow White (not even close to lips as red as blood and skin white as the snow) but the disparity is not as bad as expected. And Kruck is such a sterile non-sensuous beauty that she fits the antiseptic way in which the director apparently wanted to under-portray the character.Vincent Schiavelli who stole the show in "Ghost" also steals all the seven dwarf scenes.Vera Farmiga does a great job as Snow White's mother, especially when she plays the Queen impersonating the mother. In fact, the best scene of the film is when she is trying to convince Snow White to eat the apple-some really great shot framing and editing. Interestingly, in the original story it was the mother (not a step-mother) who was trying to kill Snow White,The ending is a bit anti-climatic as it almost instantly goes from everything being totally bleak to everything being right with the kingdom. And this happens not because of any action from the heroes or in any sort of suspenseful way, the Queen just undoes herself by reaching too far. While this supports the 'its what's inside each of us that's important' theme, it cheats the viewer out of an interestingly evolving resolution.If you ignore Kreuk (who became a decent actress-or at least much better than anyone could have guessed from this performance) and prepare yourself for a rather 'nothing' ending, you should enjoy this tale.

I disagree with some of the comments that Kristin Kreuk both looked like we would expect Snow White to look and that she would be the fairest in real life too.First of all, Kristin Kreuk's makeup in the movie was too pink. Her cheeks and her lips were pink, when Snow White's skin is supposed to be like snow and her lips blood red.And secondly, while she is no doubt beautiful, I'm sure other actresses could have played her just as well if not better. I don't see the "flawlessness" in her beauty that some people see. I realize she is very popular nowadays, and that's nice for her as an actor but not everyone agrees.About the movie itself: the retelling was ok. I have always had a fascination with the evil Queen, and in this movie they make her out to be pathetic and one dimensional and not the beautiful, complex, powerful diva she's supposed to be. I personally prefer Snow White: Tale of Terror, with Sigourney Weaver as the mother queen.

this movie is really good. some parts i would say something like "oh, man... why did that have 2 happen?" because some parts are sad. but anyway, Kristin Kreuk played the part as "the fairest of them all" & there is not a doubt in me that she is the fairest of them all in real life, too! the director could not have casted a better person for this part. she shines in the movie, & Miranda is great to! i really liked this movie, the dwarves really added a special touch! :)