Snow White and the Huntsman

True modern interpretation of classic fairy tale from billion dollar Alice producer.

Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart

Budget: 70 million | Box office: June 1

IMDB: n/a | Metacritic: n/a

Snow White and the Huntsman, Chralize Theron

After huge success of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland I was quite skeptical about the idea of turning all he most famous classic tales to big cinema events. The same producer Joe Roth quickly selected Snow White story as the next target and it seemed the movie will just rush out without putting too much effort. But after really impressive debut trailer my opinion totally changed and Snow White and the Huntsman became one of the most promising pictures of this year.

I’m glad to say that the movie delivered on its high promises. The main attraction for me was quite natural style of the new Snow White. Except for few CGI heavy episodes and really ugly fairies (not a competition for Del Toro creations), the movie feels like true classic fairy tale, adapted for modern times and viewers. No 3D gimmicks (though couple scenes look like developed with stereoscopic view in mind), beautiful landscapes and interesting sets, like the poisonous hallucinating forest.

Nowadays is fashionable to create darker grittier stories (thanks Nolan!), but such mood really suits the story. Forget happy Disney princess and singing dwarves – here the center performance and the most impressive thing is the queen. I really love Charlize Theron (and I still haven’t seen her Oscar winning role in Monster, shame on me!) and its great that a debuting commercials director wasn’t afraid to show various cruel emotions, use close-up portraits and, most important, uncover a true motivation for her youth consuming evil. It’s just beautiful to watch.

I don’t have much comments for other main actors. Chris Hemsworth is kind of stalking me for the past couple of weeks and here he really is as cool and fun to watch as in other roles. The vampire diva also is kind of the same as always – she could be happier once in a while for a change. But great surprise comes from really unexpected place – the dwarves! I loved the idea of choosing quite famous British actors (well, if you follow British movies at least) and cover them in such amount of make-up that it could be a great pub guessing game. I think I correctly spotted at least four of them. Great work from artists behind Harry Potter series and other numerous grand movies.

Snow White and the Huntsman probably will not surprise with its story or some out of the box ideas, but I think this faithfulness to classic storytelling is really welcome in today’s oversaturated children and youth market. Watching this I remembered my favourite fairy tale movie from childhood – Mio in the Land of Faraway where young Christian Bale played a supporting role. Now it‘s really interesting to see which classic story will come next.

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