Snow White Gets Buried Under Avalanche of Bad Reviews

Maybe the Evil Queen knows why Disney keeps Re-Making animated classics with annoying and box-office bomb-worthy Live Action Flicks.

By Greg Rabidoux

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Please explain why Disney

keeps making live action reboots

that annoy, fall flat, and appall.

I tried to warn the descendants of Disney, didn't I? I confessed how much I just dislike live action remakes of lovable, Disney animated classics. Whether it's The Little Mermaid, Dumbo, Cinderella, or The Lion King when you go live you leave the Disney magic behind. What was cute becomes cruel. What was fantasy becomes just frightening. And when you cast a progressive, Trump-hating, Colombian actress (Rachel Zegler) as the live-action Snow White you might just be really dopey.

Ms. Zegler, has, to her credit, not been shy about her dislike for the 1937 Snow White classic for which she would not be drawing a paycheck from Disney without, her hatred of all things Trump and MAGA ("They should never know peace" and "harm should befall Trump and his supporters") nor her love of all things Palestinian and presumably their representative, Hamas. The last is especially odd given her previously stated admiration for her co-star and true wonder woman, Gal Godot. Besides playing the Evil Queen opposite Zegler's Snow White, Gal is also an Israeli, a former IDF member, and an outspoken supporter of Israel, Jews everywhere, and for too long a seemingly lone voice in Hollywood who stood her ground against antisemitism. This, despite receiving lots of nasty backlash and death threats.

But Ms. Zegler, who by the way, can truly act and sing, is not the sole reason that yet another Disney live-action remake bombed at the box-office.

The story, about a damsel who looks for and desperately needs true love from a prince but relies on Seven Dwarfs for help, does not age well. Disney also went so "woke" in its early depiction of said dwarfs that it got bad press early on and never quite recovered. It ended up going with CGI-generated dwarfs (see the picture above) which basically displeased everyone even more. And the script is so jam-packed with advancing a progressive agenda and message that it weighs everything else even slightly fun, whimsical, and yes, magical, down. Way down.

SW had a budget of $270 million and has, so far, clawed back only about $87 million. With box office numbers generally depressed this spring, and bad reviews and word of mouth (it only scored a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes...and yes, that's bad) it will have to rely even more heavily on the worldwide market than usual. Could SW somehow manage to pop out of this avalanche of bad box office if she stands on say, the shoulders of her seven little pals? Maybe. But as actor Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) who knows a thing or two about dwarfs said, Why the f**k did Disney feel the need to remake a story about a white girl who lives in a dark cave with seven dwarfs anyways? Why, indeed? Well, recognizable brand-name for one, and hopes of profit for two, but is it just me or are we simply over the "look at us we can now make everything that was once animated live action" phase in cinema?

The 1937 Snow White was a phenomenon for many reasons. At least seven I can think of. Next time, let's just keep the classics alone and green-light new and fresh script ideas. I have some by the way just in case you're finally open to new ideas Disney.

Greg Rabidoux is an award-winning filmmaker, author, scriptwriter and is sometimes mistaken for Grumpy due to his sunny disposition.