Propped up by a budget of $250 million, the new “Snow White” bombed on its opening weekend after bringing in $43 million at the box office. In this version, which comes nearly 90 years after the 1937 classic, a naïve princess saved by a caring prince has been replaced by a Hispanic girl who dreams of being the girl boss who saves the day.
A related story by The Daily Caller collected a string of scathing reviews by film critics, all of them reliably liberal, who panned the remake as a Disney disaster. The Huffington Post said something “just feels off” in the film, and a BBC film critic said it had an “identity crisis” that was never resolved.
“It seems as if some of the producers wanted to make an old-fashioned tribute to a feudal fairy tale,” the BBC film critic wrote, “and the others wanted to make a revisionist, Marxist call-to-arms.”
The Daily Caller also quoted a film critic for The Times, the British newspaper, who said Disney has reached a “crisis point” in filmmaking. The famous film studio that once made “flawless” stories is now producing “sanctimonious life lessons culled from the corpses of their own murdered movies," the reviewer wrote.
Christian apologist McFarland, of Truth for a New Generation, says it’s been a long time since Disney produced a film worth bringing the whole family to see.
“I don't know why Disney and other creative engines feel led to put their woke progressive DEI politics into their entertainment, because it's a money loser,” he tells AFN.
In a rare exception to other film critics, the movie review by PluggedIn found some room to praise the newest version of the Snow White character. Film reviewer Emily Tsiao wrote that girls will see a “strong and brave young woman” depicted in the film. The way she acts and behaves in the film is good, too, including embracing the values taught by her father.
