Disney’s Snow White (U) |Close-Up Film Review
Dir: Marc Webb US, 2025, 109 mins.
Cast: Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Andrew Burnap
Review by Carlie Newman
You also need to not think too hard about the story. In order, perhaps, to make the story more relevant to today the film makes a number of somewhat unsuccessful alterations to the story.
Snow White no longer finds her prince but hooks up with a rebel, Jonathan (attractive Andrew Burnap) who is a kind of Robin Hood figure in that he steals food and gives it to those in need. Instead of Snow White having been given the name to reflect her Snow White skin, it now references a big snowstorm that happened when she was born. And the seven dwarfs….just to say they are not real and nor is their part in the story.
Rachel Zegler, who made a perfect Maria in West Side Story, is here reduced to a fairly po faced Snow White. Still beautiful looking with a lovely singing voice, there is no real heart on show. Gal Gadot gives us a very dramatic, wicked stepmother/queen. The costumes, which are generally fairly simple, give Gadot a series of extra extravagant gowns.
While the ‘true love’s kiss’ has been kept in as the antidote to the poisoned apple, this Snow White just wants to be a good leader of her people.
Perhaps stick to a more traditional version.
