So, first of all, I did enjoy the movie. It was fun, light-hearted and kids will enjoy it.

I liked the acting from everyone, I enjoyed the visuals, and the tone was wholesome.

The things that did bother me a little bit were the changes to the original songs. Some changes were lyrical, others were adding lyrics where there didn’t need to be any. I think there were around 5 songs on the original movie, and in this one, they removed at least two of those, the reasons for which make sense, but then that leaves them with 3 songs total. So, they created a lot of new songs. That makes sense, though they did make quite a few songs.

For me, I’m so connected to hearing songs from these classic Disney movies throughout my childhood and as an adult too, that hearing changes to the songs in some of these live-action versions has been challenging. Sometimes small changes work, but when the underlying rhythm of the song changes, it bothers me. One song here was essentially the same, but where in the original, there was only melody that would have been heard, there were unnecessary lyrics added.

Another musical change was that one song that the dwarves originate in the original movie, Snow White originates in this one, but that was in one of the trailers, so I wasn’t surprised by that. And some songs were not really necessary.

I know there was a big deal made about the dwarves between the first teaser we got which had them all as tall men to them changing the characters to looking like the cartoon versions of them instead of hiring actual little people to play those roles. While I do agree that the roles should have been given to the actors that clearly deserved those roles, I’ve always known dwarves in fiction to be mythical creatures, and thus, not necessarily needing to look like humans of any size. So, the cgi look of them in this movie didn’t bother me as it has others.

Some of the dialogue wasn’t the best, but that was only a couple instances.

The other major thing was to do with the Queen. I did enjoy Gal Gadot’s acting as the Evil Queen. But I didn’t feel like the characterization of the Queen was stable. Sometimes she was strong and menacing and scary, but at the end, she wasn’t portrayed as such. I’ve always seen that character as a scary person. The threat of her at the end didn’t really amount to anything whereas at the beginning of the movie and during the movie, she was threatening. It was just odd. The changes to how the plot panned out made me feel like there had to be some huge climax coming and there kind of was, but when dealing with the threat, it kind of fizzled out. I was a bit confused by that. Though the actual end of the Queen was pretty cool.

Okay, I think that’s enough negativity!

I really enjoyed the tone of the movie and the characterization of Snow White herself. She represents hope and kindness and doing what’s right. And Rachel Zegler did a wonderful job at portraying that. And of course her voice is as amazing as it always is. I understand the modernization of her character, and I think it worked well. The climax of the story worked in how she defused the situation, and I enjoyed how she did it. Though I think it would have been stronger with a larger scope with the same defusing. But I still liked what we saw.

And of course, the costumes were wonderful! And the sets were fun to see. I could certainly spend time at the dwarves cottage looking at all the details inside it. And I enjoyed the colors and visuals of the opening number.

Generally, it is a fun movie and I thinks kids will enjoy it. Some adults will too, and some won’t do much. But I don’t think it was a bad movie. I had fun watching it and hearing songs I remember from the original movie.

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Mid-credit scene: Nope

End-credit scene: Nope

But, I really liked the art in the mid-credits. It was reminiscent of the original movie.