Snow White and the Huntsman

When you are in a relationship, you have to make sacrifices. Whether it be selling some prized possessions or working a job you don't like to make ends meet, sacrifices are made. For me, I have to see movies I know won't be good.

First World Problems.

Snow White and the Huntsman is the same story, more or less, that we all know but closer to the original German version than the fabricated version, filled with flowers and rainbows that most people know from Disney. An evil queen, who rules the land she stole from Snow White and her family with an Iron fist, becomes jealous when Snow White is declared the fairest in the land by the magical mirror. She then demands that Snow White be brought to her so she can steal her heart and become immortal, forever being the fairest of them all.

I really enjoyed the fact that this steered away from the cutesy Snow White that Disney has created and leaned more towards the dark Adventure written by the Brothers Grimm. The German version of all the fairy tales are one thousand times better than the versions tainted and softened by Disney. That being said, the could have picked a better actress for the title role.

Kristen Stewart was definitely at her best in this movie. But that is still relatively average. As always, her face didn't change much.

This is obviously a joke, and exaggerated, but its not far from the truth.

There were times where she was supposed to be happy and she looked angry, and times where she was supposed to be sad but looked surprised (with no hint of sadness). And it didn't help that she was surrounded by good actors.

Chris Hemsworth, who for some reason has been almost all of the movies I have reviewed on my blog, had so much more skill than Stewart, and it made her look even worse than she would normally. But at the same time, I think it raised her skill. She had to keep up with him, but it was still like seeing the Big Mac they put together for commercials next to the one you actually get at McDonald's.

Overall, this movie was sub par. But there was one aspect of it that was amazing. The dwarves. Unlike other Snow White movies, they didn't get little people to play the dwarves. They had such great actors as Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost, Eddie Marsan and Toby Jones playing them. Their heads were superimposed seamlessly onto the bodies of little people. I think. I'm not even 100% sure how they did it. It was the first time in a long time that I had seen something I knew was a visual effect, but couldn't see the flaw in it. It was fantastic.

And the characters were hilarious. I felt no connection with any of the characters until the dwarves came on screen.

My Rating: C