Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is an American animated musical fantasy film that grossed $418 million over a $1.49 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1937. It’s based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It’s rated G (in Australia). The following are the 10 most recent IMDb reviews for the film.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) – 5.8
Warning: Spoilers
Act 2 – 5.1
Act 3 – 6.4
First Disney feature film
The Queen is obsessed with being the most beautiful person in the kingdom but the princess Snow White is more beautiful says the Magic Mirror
Snow White is kept suppressed as a maid to hide her beauty and meets the prince at the beginning of the film
Queen orders her huntsman to kill Snow White in the woods and to bring back her heart as proof
The huntsman can’t kill Snow White and tells her to run as the queen wants her dead
Snow White ends up deep in the woods and sings with the animals and becomes friends with them
The animals lead her to a cottage in the woods and nobody is home so she cleans the home with the animals
Cut to the seven dwarfs working in the mine
They arrive home to their cottage and after some dumb misunderstandings they realize Snow White is sleeping in their beds
They get aquatinted with the princess and she tells them about her situation
Snow White says if they let her stay she will tend to the house and cook for them and they agree
Snow White starts to make the dwarfs more civilized and they have a very dated of view of woman with some comments from Grumpy especially, understandable as this took place in the 30’s
Grumpy is the only one who doesn’t want to accept these changes and he’s incredibly annoying
The Queen asks the Mirror who the fairest of them all is and he still says Snow White is as she is living with the Dwarfs in the woods
The Queen makes and drinks a magic potion to disguise herself as an old hag and plans to give Snow White and apple that will enact a sleeping death
There’s a lot of pointless filler scenes with the Dwarfs that don’t add much to the film
Snow White tells the Dwarfs about Prince Charming in song who she met for like 2 minutes at the beginning of the film and sings of her dreams
The only antidote for the apples curse is loves first kiss which the Queen isn’t worried about with the Dwarfs
The Dwarfs warn Snow White of the Queens evil powers as they leave to go to the mines and Grumpy has warmed up to her as well
The Queen arrives to the cottage and the animals try to warn Snow White but fail and go to tell the Dwarfs
The Queen tells Snow White that the apple is a wishing apple and all her dreams will come true if she takes a bite and the Dwarfs run home
Snow White wishes for a Prince to come and take her away to his castle and she takes a bite and collapses
The Dwarfs chase after the Queen in a devilish storm and she falls off a cliff to her death
Really like the foreshadowing with the vultures and instead of showing her death we see the vultures glad down to where she has fallen, probably the best scene sin the film
The Dwarfs and the animals mourn over Snow White and couldn’t get up the nerve to bury her so they encased her in a glass coffin
The Prince hears of the princess in the glass coffin and goes and kisses her which is real weird because she is dead
The kiss awakens Snow White and the animals and the Dwarfs celebrate as the Prince carries her away
She rides off with the Prince and says goodbye to the Dwarfs and we see a castle in the distance presuming that Snow White does get everything that she ever wanted
Pretty generic and quick resolution for Snow White
The Queens jealousy and vanity is her death which is a bit off because Snow White gets everything that she has ever wanted just for being beautiful so there is a mixed message there
Decent film that started a dynasty
8.8/10 (Great)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snowwhite and Prince charming maybe the main characters, they are to perfect to be interesting. The seven dwarfs, with al their (all too human) imperfections are much more fun to watch.
Just like in the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood Snowwhite contains symbolism that stand for the awakening of a young girl. Think of the magic sleep and the kiss of the prince that breaks the spell. We also see the same symbolism in the Wagner opera “Ring des Nibelungen” (Brunhilde = Snowwhite and Siegfried = the Prince).
The best movie with Snow White running away from her stepmother queen being a serial killer
Warning: Spoilers
Snow White is a teenage girl who lives with her abusive Stepmother the queen who’s obsessed with killing Snow White just so she can have the rotten mask in the mirror tell her she’s more beautiful than Snow White.
First of all I liked Snow White, she’s kind to animals and people and 7 funny dwarves. She helped clean up the mess the dwarves made in their cottage house. She did become a homeless woman after the huntsman sent her running away from home.
I liked the 7 dwarves Doc, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy. But I liked Dopey the funny man and I liked Grumpy as I relate to him. The 7 dwarves were nice enough to provide Snow White shelter since she became homeless. I also liked the dance party and they fought the Evil Queen and won.
I did like the Huntsman as he stood up to the queen and spared Snow Whites life and tricked the Queen.
The Prince Charming character I didn’t know much about as the Disney animators didn’t give him enough screen time, I would’ve like to know more about his life. But thankfully he saved Snow White’s life with a kiss and they both got hitched and possibly married in the castle.
I didn’t like the Stepmother Queen at all as she was a serial killer and a murderer in her heart. She ended up growing old like a creepy old beggar woman and tried to kill her stepdaughter with a poisoned apple. Thankfully she came to her untimely death falling off a cliff.
I also didn’t like the Magic Mirror masked man who deceived the queen and told her lies about her and Snow White her stepdaughter. I wish her stepmother would’ve broke the mirror and change her evil murderous ways.
Overall this is a fairy tale movie but there’s some PG-13 content stuff involved in this movie. But it’s a very good movie to watch and I highly recommend watching this movie, it is a slow movie but still worth watching.
For the rating of this movie I would rate it PG-13 for scary scenes, peril, brief violence.
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