SPOILERS: Snow White live action (March 21, 2025 release)

Tha Realest

Tha Realest

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To those who’ve seen the film:

Do the baristas at a secluded woodland employee-owned coffee shop outside of Portland appear at all?

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Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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Looking at both the regular and deluxe soundtracks;

The only songs retained in full from the original are "Whistle While You Work" and "Heigh-Ho"

"The Silly Song" is briefly used, but that's it. Most of the songs are original.

The expanded soundtrack includes the film's score, but I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet to hear if any other tunes are referenced.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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Animaniac93-98 said:
Looking at both the regular and deluxe soundtracks;

The only songs retained in full from the original are "Whistle While You Work" and "Heigh-Ho"

"The Silly Song" is briefly used, but that's it. Most of the songs are original.

The expanded soundtrack includes the film's score, but I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet to hear if any other tunes are referenced.
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Even "Whistle While You Work" has changed lyrics since the animals nor Snow White are working.
 
WorldExplorer

WorldExplorer

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Animaniac93-98 said:
Looking at both the regular and deluxe soundtracks;

The only songs retained in full from the original are "Whistle While You Work" and "Heigh-Ho"

"The Silly Song" is briefly used, but that's it. Most of the songs are original.

The expanded soundtrack includes the film's score, but I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet to hear if any other tunes are referenced.
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Disney's great love for having globally recognized, iconic stuff handed to them and insisting on throwing it away is amazing.
 
Baloo124

Baloo124

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Phroobar said:
Even "Whistle While You Work" has changed lyrics since the animals nor Snow White are working.
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Why even bother?
If "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" in the Lion King remake occurring during broad daylight makes sense to audiences, then nobody should hardly notice an entire song about working merrily despite nobody working at all.
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AdventureHasAName

AdventureHasAName

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Animaniac93-98 said:
Both them and the CGI dwarfs are in the movie according to one review I watched.

Makes me think the dwarfs were added in the reshoots, which would partly explain the bad CGI.
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That can't possibly be correct because we were told over, and over, and over (and over) again on this very message board that the 7 Hobos of Benneton were never intended to be in the film and that they were simply stand-ins for the CGI dwarf characters that were always intended to be in the film.
 
Ghost93

Ghost93

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I thought it was a perfectly "alright" 6/10. More than any of the other Disney remake, it felt like it had an identity crisis on whether it wanted to be a whimsical, old fashioned fairy tale or whether it wanted to be a more grounded, modern and realistic story.

Rachel Zegler is great as Snow White and they managed to give her more agency without turning her into the stereotypical "girl boss" action heroine. I also liked the romance with her and Jonathan quite a bit, even if it was a bit too reminiscent of the Rapunzel/Flynn Ryder romance. And while I like the story change of Jonathan being a poor bandit, it does rob us of the iconic "Someday My Prince Will Come."

I got used to the CGI dwarves but still feel that going the Polar Express CGI route was a very bad decision. They should have definitely cast live action actors, as it was always jarring to see them in the same space as real humans. I did like how they expanded on the relationship between Snow White and Dopey. I found her encouraging him to come into his own rather touching.

Jonathan's sidekicks of bandits felt like they had A LOT of scenes on the cutting room floor. The way they were framed in several scenes made it look like the camera was giving them the importance of main characters, but we had almost no screen time with them. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an earlier version of the movie where they were originally much more prominent, and then they had their roles pared down in reshoots.

The new songs feel dreadfully out of place. Way too pop-like and modern. They would be more at home in something like High School Musical than a fairytale classic. I did like the new version of "Whistle While You Work," however.

Gal Gadot's acting isn't very good, but I still enjoyed the Evil Queen and the expanded lore behind her. She could have been one of the all-time great live action Disney villains in the hands of a more capable actress. I feel this rewritten version of the Evil Queen actually feels like what King Magnifico was supposed to be in Wish. In fact, the climax of the movie, where Snow White encourages the kingdom to stand in resistance to the Queen, was extremely reminiscent of the ending of Wish.

This movie will probably bomb at the box office and I'm in an odd situation where I feel the movie doesn't deserve the extreme hate it's getting, yet I don't feel strongly enough about the movie to go out of my way to defend it. It's a very typical live action Disney remake. If you like the remakes, you'll probably like this. If you hate the remakes, I'd advise staying home as I don't think this will change your mind.
 

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