Walt Disney Studios’s new « Snow White » film is having a tough opening weekend, getting savaged by reviews and earning low box office returns.
Walt Disney Studios’s new « Snow White » film is having a tough opening weekend.
Not only is the film projected to have the lowest opening weekend among the studio’s live-action remakes so far, the movie is getting bombarded with bad reviews.
« The movie does earn points as a bedtime story, however, because it will definitely put you to sleep », Rolling Stone critic David Fear quipped in his review.
The film, a retread of the original 1937 animated classic, currently has a « rotten » 44% critics score from movie review aggregator site RottenTomatoes.com. Though audiences appear to have a more favorable view of the movie — the audience score sits at 74% — mainstream film critics have savaged the movie.
The New York Times’ chief film critic Manohla Dargis summed up her impressions of the film, saying it’s « neither good enough to admire nor bad enough to joyfully skewer; its mediocrity is among its biggest bummers. »
Kyle Smith at The Wall Street Journal wrote, « Gloss prevails over heart in nearly every scene, and plot beats feel contrived », and ’s Odie Henderson lamented, « I had high hopes that ‘Snow White’ would make me happy.
