FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

kirbyskay2012 I bought this from the $5 bin at Walmart, and watched it at home, all the time expecting something much closer to the fairy tale. The production values were good, including the sets, costumes, and props. The seven dwarf characters ranged from mundane to absolutely annoying. The bear seemed superfluous entirely. Snow White's father was a complete wimp from beginning to end, although looked the part of a fairy tale king. Queen Elspeth was one dimensional, making a convincing totally self-absorbed beauty, but seemed to soft pedal her evil.The story itself was okay, and serves as a stand-alone movie as long as the viewer has never once read the original fairy tale or seen any other version of it (even the famous Disney animated masterpiece), but somehow just doesn't fit together in this production. There is no bad language or nudity, so it's OK for kids, but would probably be a confusing thing for them to watch, at best. 3 out of 10 only.

Jackson Booth-Millard 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!

coolmee-man Move over Disney! When I first saw Snow White: The Fairest of them All, I thought that it was most definitely the fairest. How did it make it on the top ten charts? Well, usually when you see a retelling of the story you see the seven dwarfs. The story is also usually made for little kids- but not this one. This version also gives background information on the evil queen and how her magestic brother turned her from a hag to the beautiful lady. She was given to Snow White's father because Snow White's father woke the hags brother up from the ice. The father was given one wish, so he got a wife. In the original they didn't go too deep. No dwarfs, but the colors of the rainbow instead (they had the names of the weeks also). This version could be enjoyed by kids and adults also. With more of a plot, more romance, and an excellent mirror room, this beats Disney 100%!

aimless-46 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.