‘Snow White’ Review: Rachel Zegler Is Practically Perfect in Disney Remake Otherwise Full of Bad Ideas
In this pessimistic, cynical world of ours it’s easy to get hung up on the negative, so let’s try to be positive. There’s nothing wrong with Disney’s live-action remake of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” that couldn’t be fixed by making it 26 minutes shorter, 88 years ago and in hand-drawn animation.
There’s also nothing wrong with Rachel Zegler’s performance. The “West Side Story” star has walked right out of the classic cartoon, with a pitch perfect singing voice, spot-on physicality, and a theatrical, emotional performance that resonates. Zegler received endless, cruel insults from so-called Disney fans who objected to her casting — for reasons that ran from racist, to racist with other bad reasons too — but she’s the only participant in this production who completely understood the assignment and brings “Snow White” to actual, meaningful life.
Marc Webb’s remake takes the storyline of the original film,...
There’s also nothing wrong with Rachel Zegler’s performance. The “West Side Story” star has walked right out of the classic cartoon, with a pitch perfect singing voice, spot-on physicality, and a theatrical, emotional performance that resonates. Zegler received endless, cruel insults from so-called Disney fans who objected to her casting — for reasons that ran from racist, to racist with other bad reasons too — but she’s the only participant in this production who completely understood the assignment and brings “Snow White” to actual, meaningful life.
Marc Webb’s remake takes the storyline of the original film,...
- 3/19/2025
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
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