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Critics Divided On 'Snow White And The Huntsman'

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The reviews are pouring in for Snow White and the Huntsman and while some critics seem to love the retelling of the classic fairytale others are just not feeling it at all. See what some had to say below.

They do all seem to agree that Charlize Theron is awesome.

"There is something exciting about how seriously Snow White and the Huntsman takes its themes. Most of the fairy tales that have become fixtures of modern popular culture — including those, like Snow White, published by the Brothers Grimm in the early 19th century — emerged from the dark, violent folk landscape of early modern Europe. They are fables of innocence, but also of terror, dense with superstition and sexual anxiety. Walt Disney’s justly beloved 1937 animated feature, though it has some spooky, gothic visual touches, expelled most of the demons and turned the heroine into an emblem of chaste and cheerful domestic normalcy. Since then, Hollywood fairy tales have mainly tacked between wide-eyed romanticism and winking self-consciousness." - NY Times

"I resisted this derivative mishmash of classic fairytale and modern epic fantasy for as long as I could, but ultimately it swept me up into its geeky but manly embrace and carried me away on a white charger. English commercial director Rupert Sanders makes his feature debut with a splash, launching a fantasy-adventure franchise that probably isn’t as good as any of the things it references — the classic Walt Disney film, of course, but also The Lord of the Rings, the Narnia series, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Shakespeare and countless other works besides — but comes close enough, I’d guess, to carve out its own niche and create its own fan base." - Salon

"Fairy tales—the real, grotty, passed-down-through-centuries-of-oral-literature kind—offer simple, emotionally resonant stories with proven crowd appeal, not to mention an excuse for all kinds of lavish visual spectacle (giants, trolls, epic battles, royal pageantry). Snow White and the Huntsman, the first feature from British commercial director Rupert Sanders, has its work cut out for it if it wants to be a truly dull piece of junk—but it manages." - Slate

"Snow White and the Huntsman is a tastefully overbearing franchise fairy tale with a handful of ravishing touches. It's also a world-class illustration of how, in the age of the global blockbuster, the lust for demographics — for coralling the largest possible audience — can determine aesthetics. The movie works so hard to transform a quintessential girl story into a girl-and-guy story that it's like three movies in one." - EW

"Theron glows even when Ravenna’s magical powers are waning and she’s allegedly looking haggard. Dressed by costume designer Coleen Atwood in fantastically over-the-top numbers worthy of the best days of Alexander McQueen, Theron is a goddess, a breathtaking piece of human perfection. " - Time

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