On March 21, Disney’s live action remake of “Snow White” released in theatres. “Snow White” is a modern day adaptation of the 1937 film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” also by Disney. 

The movie opens with beautiful scenery and an overall happy, fantasy vibe. We are introduced to the Good King (Hadley Fraser) and the Good Queen (Lorena Andrea), the parents of our main character, Snow White (Rachel Zegler). 

The family is very well known throughout the kingdom for having a positive and kind relationship with the people. They have a reputation for bringing pies, having celebrations and overall knowing the people they rule. 

There are a few opening songs and dance numbers that I found to be very cheesy and kind of tacky. I understand that the movie is targeted towards children and wasn’t intended to be mature; however, the music is, in my opinion, overall tacky in comparison to a lot of other music and children’s things Disney has made before. 

A couple of scenes in when the Good Queen dies, the writers did a very good job at making the topic of death pretty easy to understand without much more explanation needed. I really liked how they kept the topic simple considering the movie was targeted towards a younger audience. 

When we meet the Evil Queen (Gal Gadot), she quickly shows her true colors and becomes the “bad guy.” I liked how they represented her personality and role through what she wore but using sharp edges and bold, dark coloring. I also enjoyed how we could visually see the change in emotion of the kingdom through the scenery becoming less alive looking and having an overall dreary feel. 

As the movie progresses we see a love connection form between Snow White and a peasant boy named Jonathan (Andrew Burnap). I strongly disliked the change in storyline when it came to this in comparison to the original movie. 

That same sort of thing kept happening with the climax and overall story of the movie, and I didn’t care for it. 

The scenes where the Seven Dwarfs were introduced brought back the feeling of the original movie, and I enjoyed the music that the dwarfs were a part of. I especially liked the one where they are down in the mines because it felt very jovial and nostalgic. 

In the end, the kingdom was triumphant against the Evil Queen. The movie ends with a song and dance musical number with everyone wearing white. I really enjoyed the symbolism of the white with it representing the cleanse the kingdom went through and the purity of it after the Evil Queen was gone. 

Overall, the movie was artistic, and it was one that felt as if the people making it put in effort; However, I think the film steered a little too far away from the original storyline and, in general, was a little too modern for what it was supposed to be. I understand the reasoning behind modernizing some of the parts and topics, but I think it was too much. Watching the movie was enjoyable, but I did not feel like I was watching Snow White.