![]() Snow White comes downstairs, from the bedroom she seems to live in, to ask the Queen if she can attend the gala since it is her 18th birthday. One servant named Brighton ( Nathan Lane) steps forward to tell her that the kingdom is close to being destitute. The Queen is sitting on her throne, and it looks like shes playing chess with her servants by using them as human pawns and she is playing with her top minister known only as the Barton ( Michael Lerner). Ten years after the King vanished in the Dark Woods without a trace, Snow White ( Lily Collins) talks to and plays with the birds. Snow White searched for him, devastated that he wasn't found. He gave Snow his dagger, and rode off into the woods, and was never seen again. Her father was grooming her for the kingdom, when he met the Queen. ![]() She was spoiled, and the kingdom was a very happy place. These features alone make Mirror Mirror worth watching - along with the numerous shirtless Armie Hammer scenes.In the opening animated segment, the Queen ( Julia Roberts) begins by telling us the story of Snow White's birth (throwing in some sarcastic comments with modern day slang). That being said, Mirror Mirror’s Oscar nomination goes to visual presentation, with intricate costumes and beautifully crafted sets. But other changes, like adding the Bollywood singing and dancing number at the end of the film, fail to enrich the modern take on the Grimm fairy tale, making us long for the original.įortunately, Julia Roberts is pleasantly less of an overdone caricature than I feared and more of an all-ages evil queen, one mean enough to frighten the kiddies, but comical enough for those of us taking said kiddies to see the film.Īnd not to be forgotten, Neil Lane steps in as the Queen’s bumbling servant, a pleasant - albeit not entirely necessary - addition to the cast. Tarsem Singh Dhandwar ( Immortals and Curious Case of Benjamin Button) takes plenty of artistic liberties as director, most of which add to this contemporary comedy set to the stage of the classic fairytale, from the Queen’s “mirror mirror” being an actual reflection of herself, a metaphor sometimes lost on the younger target audiences of the story, to the almost complete absence of the poison apple.ĭhandwar allows Snow to fight for herself and become the heroine of her own story, which is a message that should be passed on to girls and women watching the film. And, as it turns out, the man-eating beast trolling the Dark Forest is Snow’s father turned hideous dragon by the Queen, who of course is saved by Snow as she rips the beast’s binding chains off and turns her father back into a man. In her pursuit for her rightful throne, Snow learns to fight for herself, stop the Prince’s marriage with the Queen, have her first kiss and save her kingdom. Here’s the main deviation from the original story: the dwarves go by Napoleon, Half-Pint, Grub and Grimm as opposed to Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Doc. Banished from the castle, Snow is saved by seven suitors, better known as the seven dwarves. Thus begins the story of the young woman who seeks atonement for her people and vengeance on the evil Queen.Įnter young Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer), who the Queen seeks to marry for glory and money, but who only has eyes for Snow. The malicious Queen (Julia Roberts) takes over the kingdom after Snow’s father mysteriously disappears into the Dark Forest, all while nursing her bruised ego as she steadily loses grip on her reign as fairest of them all to, you guessed it, Snow.Īfter being locked away in a tower until her 18th birthday, Snow flees the castle to visit her beloved townspeople, only to discover that they are impoverished and near death. The film follows the classic tale of a young Snow White (Lily Collins), with hair as dark as night and skin as white as snow, who is despised by her stepmother. Mirror Mirror turned out to be a family friendly, enjoyable, life-lesson-filled giggle fest. I was initially intrigued by casting reports, which included The Social Network’s ArmieHammer, but the trailers left me less than excited. I have to admit, I’ve been far more interested in seeing Charlize Theron’s Snow White and the Huntsman than Julia Roberts’ Mirror Mirror.
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