Earlier this week I marveled that this film was running 90%+ in the early reviews. Their marketers must have hand-picked a friendly group of reviewers to receive those first screeners. The top critics score it 39%, and the Big Six (Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Ebert, Berardinelli, NY Times, Washington Post) gave all six thumbs down.
The general consensus is that the film looks spectacular, but that the performances and script fall far short of the impressive standard set by its visual imagination.
The NY Times wrote: "While Mr. Singh knows how to make performers and sets look good, he has trouble putting them into vibrant, kinetic, meaningful play, which effectively means that he's a better window dresser than a movie director." Variety echoed that theme: "[It] ultimately suffers the same fatal flaw as Julia Roberts' evil queen: It doesn't really care about anything except how pretty it looks."
Roger Ebert (2.5 stars out of 4) noted with a hint of subtlety: "The dialogue is rather flat, the movie sort of boring, and there's not much energy in the two places it should really be felt: Between the Queen and Snow White, and between Snow and the Prince." The Washington Post decided to state the problem directly: "As Snow White, actress Lily Collins is a washout." Syndicated reviewer Roger Moore, although he raved about the imagery of the film, added some historical perspective to the failed lead performance: "Not since Francis Ford Coppola slapped his daughter Sofia into 'Godfather III' have we seen a performance this dull, whispered and charisma free."
Friday, March 30, 2012
Mirror Mirror - Rotten Tomatoes Update
Mirror Mirror - Rotten Tomatoes Update
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Of course, this means the movie will be insanely successful as everyone else will enjoy it.
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