"What we said: Here is a pointless new live-action musical version of the Snow White myth, a kind of un-Wicked approach to the story and a merch-enabling money machine. Where other movies are playfully reimagining the backstories of famous villains, this one plays it straight, but with carefully curated revisionist tweaks. These are all too obviously agonising and backlash-second-guessing, but knowing that at some basic level the brand identity has to be kept pristine. PB Read the full review"
"What we said: The opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed festival slot which few films need or want, and whose occupants so often turn out to be the squawking overfed turkeys of the big screen. Such a one, sadly, is this listless and supercilious musical ostensibly on the theme of heartwarming home town values which flatlines like a hedgehog run over by an 18-wheeler"
A film based on Saturday Night Live is characterized by unbearable self-indulgence and self-adoration that exhausts even devoted fans. A live-action Snow White musical is framed as a merch-enabling money machine that plays villain backstories straight while applying revisionist tweaks to protect brand identity. A Cannes opening gala musical is described as listless and supercilious, collapsing when the lead sings and featuring terrible songs. Another film called Alpha suffers from madly overwrought, humourless storytelling with excessive emoting that renders scenes redundant and unpersuasive. A John Travolta-starring heist is portrayed as a cheap knockoff of Ocean's Eleven.
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