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baboonfan [2014-01-25 09:32:03 +0000 UTC]

I can't say I liked that movie. I thought Julia Roberts was the best part, but for her I'd grade a C, especially because of her inconsistent royal accent. The plot was muddled, and didn't have enough of a distinction to carve its own niche amongst the other re-imaginings. It was a little to adult to be a kids movie, but not adult enough to be an adult movie. It wasn't funny enough to be a funny movie like Ella Enchanted, but it also lacked the emotional depth and character development in order to be taken seriously. All in all, a C- grade. The one redeeming feature was the sometimes snarky humor of the wicked queen, and the footman's comment on her "radiating good, old-fashioned, psycho crazy". I thought the prince's character was flat, as he went from arrogant to good natured un-witting boob in the span of ten minutes, and I found the Snow White character painful to watch. Mouse to rebel in thirty minutes flat, and the scene where she was talking to the cook about her discovery of the village made me want to barf. The dwarves were underdeveloped, which is understandable considering they only have so much time to introduce them, but like I said above even they were muddled and seemed to be caught between adult and child roles. In adult roles, they could have afforded to have more emotion or backstory, or told raunchier jokes, and in a kid's film they could have just given the names and a basic personality trait. The mirror was an interesting character, but unfortunately wasn't given enough screen time or personality to make me like her. But the grand-daddy, catastrophic mistake that finally tipped the scale was the wretch inducing musical number at the end, completely ruining the cool, poetic death scene of the wicked queen. I'm surprised that people rate it so high.

Still, I love your gargoyles rendition of it. Maybe the movie could have been saved with gargoyles? It couldn't possibly make it worse.

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evolra [2014-01-20 23:14:54 +0000 UTC]

You were right about her eyebrows!  Very nice pic.

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