Kevin Martin

In Disney’s effort to revamp a timeless and iconic piece of art and storytelling, the entire picture loses its heart, and leaves us all one rotten apple. The new addition of songs and plot don’t do service to the fragments of the original they did leave in tact, and the dialogue may as well be non-existent because there’s little of it and what there is does nothing to stir any feeling other than one similar to when you sneeze but it doesn’t come out. Gal Gadot’s flat, monotone, unconvincing delivery as a jealous and evil queen, or a spiteful and poison apple-wielding witch are a blight on Lucille La Verne’s treatment of such a delicious character. This new remake lacks the joy, terror, artistry, music, or romance of the 1937 classic. Spend your money on the original, and skip this empty shell of a remake and cruel treatment of the Fairest one of All.