You know that movies are a disaster when even stubborn Disney fans tear it apart.
Reporters and media outlets agree that “Snow White” is a grand waste of time and money. For both the audience and the poor sucker who dropped over $250 million to produce this flop. There have always been a few critics trying to find the silver lining, but this time, the real entertainment comes from seeing who drove Shirayuki crazy. BBC film critic Nicholas Barber I called it “The Crisis of Identity,” HuffPost guest writer Sarah Hunter Symanson I dubbed it “A strange, hot mess,” film critic Associated Press’ Associated Press’ Jake Coyle was barely scraped away. Two Stars Of the four. From where I stand, Snow White officially appeared as a film that everyone hates.
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There are so many things to dislike about this film, so it’s hard to exactly separate the places Disney didn’t do well.
The barber roasted CGI dwarves in the film on March 19th, calling them “creepy” for the BBC. Symanson called the CGI elements “strange” and found the dwarves’ human eyes and unnatural movements to be anxious.
“It seems as if some producers wanted to give old-fashioned tribute to feudal fairy tales, while others wanted to create a revisionist Marxist appeal,” Barber wrote.
“Instead of settling on one or the other options, the producers obviously compromised by creating both versions at once, so the outcome is like a heart-warming mashup of two different films.”
He went on to say, “The producers should have chosen their lane and stayed there.”
Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson I torched the movie On March 21, “Snow White’s message is probably a bit rushed and confused, awkwardly grafted into a very basic fairytale princess template.”
The barber got caught up in the film’s content by saying, “This must be the closest Disney princess movie to have to paraphrase its communist manifesto.”
LOS ANGELES, CA – March 15: Rachel Zegler will be attending the world premiere of Walt Disney Studios’ “Snow White” at the Elpitan Theatre, which will be held on March 15th, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Filmmagic) Getty Images
Simanson from Huffpost couldn’t fall behind in any part of the film. “It’s a way of running the plot, combining creative pieces to just create something that feels,” the reviewer wrote.
The review picked out Gal Gadot, who played the evil queen in the film, calling her musical performance “Uneven” and the villain’s song “All Is Fair” “a sturdy and awkward choreography.”
Coyle of the AP said the film “can’t thread the needles completely,” and denounced Disney for casting Rachel Zegler as a masterpiece.
Kevin Maher, a Chief Film Critic From the times, he boldly declared that “Disney has abandoned its crown jewel and its reputation,” and then warned those who decided to be in the film “with a sick bag.”
“Lazy, Visually Repellent” – Independent
“It’s so bad that I’m tired” – Guardian
“Disney abandoned that reputation” – Times
“Strange, hot mess” – Huff’s post
“Wrist Rest” – Screenly
“All right… for TV” – Vanity Fair
“There’s a big identity crisis in films” – BBC#snow white pic.twitter.com/gn7zfb40nw– Peter Lloyd (@suffragent_) March 22, 2025
“It’s hard to see this as anything other than Disney’s crisis point. Disney was making the perfect film story, but now infantilized a global audience with sanctuary’s life lessons and was culled from the corpses of their own murdered film,” Maher wrote in a March 19 review of the film.
The problem that bothers the film is not just silly reviews. Zegler and Gadot voiced support for various aspects of the Israeli Hamas war, causing their interactions to be both troublesome and disrupted.
LOS ANGELES, CA – March 15: Galgadot will be attending the world premiere of Walt Disney Studios’ “Snow White” at the El Pitan Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on March 15, 2025. (Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Filmmagic) Getty Images
Latina’s casting as “Snow White” was a major contest for many who felt that classic fairy tales should remain true to their original form. The awakened storyline was basically turned over, causing a fuss, with the cast of real actors with the role of dwarves not Disney’s top priority. (Related: Snow White’s premiere forbids attending after all surges outside the media.)
Disney fumbled over this from the start, doubling the disaster with every decision they made. One thing I can trust in them is their consistency. They showed a relentless commitment to the film’s failure.
