![]() ![]() ![]() version is the most inventive, but it's also stretched thin with some mediocre acting and awkward writing.) These diversions matter, really, because the key to "Mirror Mirror" is the tale, the one we all love most from Walt Disney's version. (And as an aside, I bizarrely also saw the first episode in "Once Upon a Time," which is a television series about fairy tale characters, and which begins with yet another imagining of Snow White. And special effects, which "Mirror Mirror" mostly avoids. It has higher production values than "Mirror Mirror" but it gets weighted down with archetypes that have no depth, and with action that has little really impact. And the other film, "Snow White and the Huntsman," is a much more ponderous affair. I had the weird luck of seeing both Snow White films this year (I'm no a Snow White fan, but tagged along twice). That doesn't get far with this film, but it's in the meat of it, especially at the end when Roberts goes through the necessary aging before the camera. Remember that the original fairy tale is a cutting investigation, without too much moralizing, into the problems of women aging and men being mindless suckers for the young. I'm going to guess it's the director who holds her back, as if the girlish attraction needs a womanly restraint-all too caricatured a notion of femininity for me, or for a lively film. Snow White herself is a spry and charming secondary character, played with too much restraint by Lily Collins. And yet there are these hilarious punctuations. For all the fast edits (it's snappy on the surface) the movie is surprisingly slow. It is the same story with tweaks and interpretations. But also be sure to know this isn't an imaginative retelling. She is a perfectly sassy, sarcastic, blithely harsh wicked witch and queen in this retelling of the Snow White story. Mirror Mirror (2012) Make no doubt about it, Julia Roberts earns her top billing here. ![]()
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