Snow White And The Huntsman

Plodding plot and an awful over the top Charlize Theron plus the Twilight Vampire girl proving that she simply cant act......

Plus Lovejoy and co as the CGI shrunken dwarves....

Avoid, avoid, avoid!

Myself and everybody I watched it with enjoyed this film I do think its a bit harsh on the reviews saying the acting was poor because I thought it was good and it had amazing action for kids and adults and parts of the film were quite funny and loved the fantasy aspect of the movie and thought Kristen Stewart was great as snow white.

If you want to watch a film where Kristen Stuart acts exactly the same as she does in every film go for it.

Much as I desperately wanted to love one of the rare fantasy movies post-LotR, this movie is a haphazard cobbling together of a range of poorly conceived or borrowed ideas, stricken with some terrible acting, largely from the overrated Kirsten Stewart.

Starting with the bad, Kirsten Stewart is terrible from start to finish, from badly delivered lines through to some tortured looking facial expressions when she's supposed to be acting charming it takes virtually the whole sidecast repeatedly assuring us that she is beautiful to convince us of something that *she* as the main character should have been doing with her acting, as a result its difficult to really give a damn about her character and she lurches from adventure to adventure.

Secondly, there are a lot of sequences that result in nothing, giving a general 'what was the point in that' feel to a lot of the time the characters spend romping in the woods. Forget the obvious Miyazaki inspiration when it comes to the enchanted forest sequence (you'll know it when you see it) there are quite a few occasions when the film seems to explore an idea, only to abandon it and never revisit it again.

Throw in an incredibly anticlimatic ending that feels like it was thrown together in about 5 minutes of writers time and we have all the makings of a turkey, right?

Not quite..

Despite its lumbering female lead, and her unconvincing love interest(s) there is plenty to like, the film is visually stunning with some absolutely beautiful scenes in it. The imagination in some of the (sadly later abandoned) scenes is pretty good as well.

However head and shoulders above this is Charlize Therons performance as the Evil Queen, she puts Kirsten Stewart firmly in the shade and delivers an excellent performance in every scene she's in, very much stealing the show and frankly making her the main reason to watch this film in the first place.

Better yet, rather then being a lazy 'Evil Queen because Evil is fun!' archetype there is both backstory and moments for her to display a warmer side (specifically to her brother, who sadly, is a lazy archetype) which makes a welcome change from more traditional fairytale villains.

What will be the determining factor of whether you watch this is a) how much you like Kirsten Stewart and b) how desperate you are for another fantasy film, if the answer to both is 'a lot' then this may be the film for you.

If not, and your morbidly curious, wait for the price to drop. You'll regret splashing a lot of money on this film..

In retelling the story of Snow White, director Rupert Sanders takes the recogniseable elements of the fantasy story from the 1937 Disney version and whacks in a dollop of Lord of The Rings style action.

But with mixed results as the film's weak script and weak performances from Hemsworth (never quite picking from what part of the world his accent is coming from) and Stewart (who I'm not a fan of anyway) even though the visuals of the film are impressive and well done. The best performance assuredly comes from Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, chewing up the scenery with delight.

Overall, it was an OK one time watch for me.

One of the worst films I have ever watched. The filming itself was really poorly done, and it just didnt piece together. It did not do justice for the actors, and the great story line.

I only gave this film one star as there was no option for no stars!
Kristen Stewart has all the charisma of a block of wood. This has to be one of the most boring films I have ever seen. The story line is thin, and the premise of making Snow White into some kind of warrior, just ridiculous.
If you value your time, then don't waste it sitting down to watch this drivel.

Amazing!

I LOVED this movie!! Would defo recommend :)

being a fairytale fan I was excited to see the outcome of this movie. The cast was great- didn't think Stewart was going to be as good. Charlize could have been a little more evilly-convincing; some of her screaming scenes seemed forced personally- she's sexy but not too cruel. Still, I wouldn't have chosen anyone else for the part, especially the milk bath scene which was great! As for the DVD, unfortunately very stale in the special features dept.! Could have had the deleted scenes, trailers and 'Breath Of Life' music video at least!

Well the movie is certainly worth a watch but despite the stellar cast (plus Kristen Stewart) and the excellent effects it does pretty much fail in what it is intending to present.

There are lots of opinions on the "beauty" represented by Snow White but whether it be an inner beauty or or physical beauty Stewart pretty much fails on all counts. She is a popular actress in some quarters (not with me clearly) but her character is the focal point in this movie and needs to be spot on for the movie to work. Snow White is supposed to represent both a physical and spiritual beauty and Stewart fails in this. Her personality, charisma and beauty should be the driving force of the story but we see and feel none of that. I was actually hoping the queen won by the end of the film though I knew that couldn't happen.

I did give it three starts so it's not all bad. Theron gives another powerful performance and is the perfect nasty queen. The effects are good, the all star British cast of Dwarves were excellent and despite the script being quite poor in places and the realism of a medieval europe ridiculously bad (they quite clearly intended it to be representative of Medieval Europe due to the Catholic prayer Snow White recites at the beginning) you always felt you wanted to see it through to the end. At no point did I think "right I've had enough of this" and switch off and that does happen a lot these days.

So in summary the film was mainly let down by a weak portrayal of Snow White. Not really the actresses fault as this film was too big for her and she was miscast. The film was watchable mainly due to Charlize Theron's performance. The representation of medieval Europe was ridiculous (only in Hollywood could a small band of cavalry attack a large fortress without siege equipment of any kind) and where the hell did the troll under the bridge come from?

Give it a try... worth a watch but not worth buying. Am I glad I didn't go to the cinema to see it.