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‘Snow White’ Review: Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot Face Off in One of the Better Live-Action Disney Remakes. And Yes, the Controversies Are Bupkis
It's lighter and more frolicsome than most of the Disney remakes, with just enough of a love story to get by. And yes, the controversies are bupkis.
Directed by Marc Webber (“The Amazing Spider-Man,” “500 Days of Summer”), from a script by Erin Cressida Wilson (“The Girl on the Train”), the film is lighter, more frolicsome, less lead-footed than such clomping live-action Disney remakes as “Alice in Wonderland,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Dumbo” or “Mulan.” Rachel Zegler, as Snow White, has a pertly appealing glow, and Gal Gadot, as the Evil Queen, glares divinely in her darkly purplish cloaked finery (stained-glass crown, nails like daggers, matching black lips and eyes), like the world’s most furious dominatrix. And what of the fact that Snow White, abandoned in the woods (where the Huntsman is too kindhearted to carry out the Evil Queen’s order to murder her), comes upon a house where seven cute, quarrelsome 249-year-old short men with Amish beards live in bachelor squalor and become her protectors? With catchy personalities and comically expressive mottled-clay faces, these CGI gnomes bring the movie to life, whether it’s the whimsically pedantic Doc (voiced by Jeremy Swift), the philosophical Grumpy (Martin Klebba), or the incongruously youthful, mute, and big-eared Dopey (Andrew Barth Feldman), who suggests Tom Holland starring in a biopic of Mad magazine’s Alfred E. Newman.
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