Mirror Mirror

Fun movie

It came in perfectly fine. Fantastic movie.

I was a really cute and light hearted movie. I really enjoyed it.

There are only so many ways one can expect to have the tale of "Snow White" retold without it just becoming a retread."Sydney White" was one remarkable example of outside-the-box thinking, but here, "Mirror Mirror" chooses to stick with the period instead of modernizing the setting, and veers off the familiar path through the woods to explore some other aspects of the characters involved.Without any spoilers, the Queen's vanity-driven blood lust becomes more understandable (if no less unforgivable); Snow White's cruel domestic treatment leads not to her devolving into a mindless nymph who is happy to set up house with seven strange little forest-dwellers, but rather a young woman of remarkable strength and tenacity; and the Prince... well, while he still remains a pretty face with a great body for stylish clothes, he does for once become an actual human with passions and foibles, making him more than just eye candy but another hero to root on in this comic saga.The cinematography is top-notch, as is the acting and writing. The Dwarfs -- each one proving to be a skilled comic actor -- easily run off with huge chunks of their scenes.This is not inappropriate for family viewing by any stretch, but this caters to a higher sense of humor. It's Grimm Grows Up, and I'd rank this as palatable and a very pleasant choice for a popcorn-and-comedy night at home.The film loses one star in my rating for overuse of the mountain of gold fabric that was obviously bought in bulk, a swatch or several yards of which were shoe-horned ("Blue Ball Gown? White portrait collar? STICK A FIVE-FOOT GOLD BOW ON THE BACK, WE STILL HAVE HUNDREDS OF BOLTS OF THAT GODDAMNED SHINY GOLD CRAP TO USE UP!") into every single costume...

A fabulous retelling of the fair Snow White’s tale, Mirror Mirror tells the story of the princess Snow and her step-mother the Queen. The Queen Clementianna (played by Julia Roberts) is an evil and frivolous ruler, who taxes her kingdom’s people to the point of starvation to pay for her luxury parties and bizarre beauty treatments. She keeps Snow (Lily Collins) locked away in her room in the castle. When Snow becomes a threat to her place as ruler, the Queen decides to do away with the young princess for good. Things don’t go quite as she planned however, and Snow winds up in the cottage of the thieving band of Dwarves, Butcher, Napoleon, Chuck(les), Grimm (yes, as in Will Grimm), Wolf, Grub, & Half-Pint-- the new and improved Seven Dwarves.Mirror Mirror is a great remake. Princess Snow is a strong female lead who can be tough and kick butt while still maintaining her beautiful, feminine charm at the same time. The Dwarves are hilarious and colorful characters, and the storyline is different and fresh while still including many things we know and love about the original Snow White. Filled with adventure, love, comedy, and a little magic, Mirror Mirror is sure to be a big hit next movie night!

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Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there was a director named Tarsem Singh. Tarsem had magical abilities to create spellbindingly lovely sets and costumes, in a way that few other directors could. But Tarsem was constantly plagued by an evil force: mediocre scripts that didn't do justice to his spellbinding visuals and direction.Yes, "Mirror Mirror" is yet another movie in the series that I like to call "Movies That Let Tarsem Singh Down Because He Didn't Write Them." This comedic retelling of the Grimm fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" is not actually a bad movie, mostly due to Tarsem's focus on the dwarves and the prince -- but the excessive wackiness and the wooden acting of Lily Collins don't do the story justice.I won't bother summing up the origins of Snow White, because everyone probably already knows it. In this version, the evil queen (Julia Roberts) has been ruling the kingdom for ten years, ever since the king (Sean Bean) was presumed dead because of a monstrous beast in the woods. His daughter Snow White (Collins) has practically been a prisoner for that decade, not realizing that the queen's expensive tastes are grinding the commonfolk into poverty.Now that the queen has bankrupted her whole country, she's on the prowl for a rich guy to refill the coffers -- and when the wealthy young prince Andrew (Armie Hammer) turns up, having been robbed and stripped by bandits, she decides he's her next husband.When Snow White finally figures out how cruel the queen is, she ends up fleeing into the snowy woods, where she is taken in by a group of dwarf bandits with... accordion legs. She soon becomes one of them after a training montage, gets a costume change, and manages to rescue a bespelled, puppy-like Prince Andrew from a wedding. But unfortunately her stepmother has figured out that Snow White isn't dead, and is determined to fix that problem.I am not sure whose brilliant idea it was to make the story of Snow White a wacky comedy. Seriously, it's not something that comes to mind when I think of Grimm's fairy tales. But the resulting movie is... not terrible. It's not that good either, especially since it seems acutely aware of its own arch humour. But it does have an airy, artificially-flavoured charm, especially when it veers away from the traditional fairy tale and tries to do its own thing.The story itself moves along at a brisk pace, with lots of wacky jokes (the dwarves keep getting locked in their own house), modern dialogue ("There's 'I'm in the same room as a prince' crazy, and then there's good old fashioned plain traditional psycho crazy") and the queen constantly saying not-witty "funny" things that seem to be winking at the audience. It's pretty pedestrian until Prince Andrew and the dwarves enter the story, when it suddenly gets an injection of life, and the story feels less pristinely Disneyesque and more like a well-rounded comedy.And as usual, the story kind of pales beside Tarsem's direction. There are some missteps (the forest seems to be about an acre square and filled with fake trees), but he brings a genuinely spellbinding aesthetic to the magic and costuming -- for instance, the "mirror mirror" actually involves the queen walking through a portal, and emerging from the sea in a mirror dimension where she can speak to her suppressed "good side."In fact, the entire aesthetic feels very fairy-tale -- the snow-draped castle that seems to be made of marble and spun sugar, with glittering balls and sweeping gowns. But since this is Tarsem, he brings a slightly eccentric, hallucinatory element to his design. Consider the accordion-legs that the dwarves use when robbing people, or the Bollywood musical number that closes out the movie.One problem is that Lily Collins is.... bad. She is worthy of many cringes throughout the movie's first half, playing another oh-so-pure-hearted, ineffectual princess who talks in a floaty voice and is so wooden you could drill holes in her. She does thankfully improve when the dwarves give Snow White an action-chick makeover, and suddenly she becomes a stronger, more independent heroine who decides SHE wants to save the day. She doesn't become GOOD, but she becomes tolerable.And while Julia Roberts is quite well-cast as a vain, evil queen, she's miscast in the sense that... it's hard to be upset about someone else being "the fairest" when you weren't that pretty to start with.The real scene-stealers here are Hammer and the dwarves, played by Danny Woodburn, Martin Klebba, Sebastian Saraceno, Jordan Prentice, Mark Povinelli, Joe Gnoffo, Ronald Lee Clark. Hammer's prince is a rather clueless but nice guy who spends a lot of time having bad, wacky things happen to him, and he's a fairly likable person. And the dwarf actors -- despite each having a single defining character trait a la Disney -- are absolutely delightful, with perfect comic timing and plenty of personality."Mirror Mirror" is a movie that teeters back and forth between the sublime and the ridiculous -- and if they had toned down on Roberts' one-liners ("They're just... crinkles!") and gotten a lead actress who can act, it would have been quite good. As it is, watch it for the seven dwarves.

Movie is fun to watch. Julia Roberts plays a great evil queen.

Un conte pour grands enfantsJe n'aime pas les ballets modernes, je n'aime pas la musique de Mahler, Je n'aime pas Jean-Paul Gaultier, mais j'adore cette Blanche-Neige d'Angelin Preljocaj.Le boitier du DVD a l'air d'avoir été conçu par des étudiants de première année. Le nom du ballet ne figure même pas sur la couverture du boitier. Est-il besoin de mentionner que les noms des danseurs n'y figurent pas non plus. A l'intérieur pas de texte. Aucune photo; que le disque. Pour 40 $ c'est du vol. Je donne une étoile sur 5 à MK2.Mais attendez.La musique est composée de petits extraits de symphonies de Mahler. La liste se trouve à la fin du DVD dans le générique. Il n'y a pas d'orchestre. Mais la musique, on dirait qu'elle a été composée pour ce ballet. Trois fois bravo.Les costumes de Jean-Paul Gauthier sont magnifiques. Encore une fois Bravo.Ce n'est pas un ballet sur pointes, mais quel ballet. Blanche-Neige (Nagisa Shirai ) et le prince (Sergio Diaz) sont epoustoufflants. Lorsque le prince retrouve Blanche-Neige inanimée, il la prend dans ses bras, la lance, l'attrappe, la serre dans ses bras, la caresse, la frôle se l'enroule autour du corps...Roméo et Juliette n'ont qu'à aller se rhabiller. Nagisa et Sergio dansent divinement, ils sont sensuels. Le prince après avoir essayé de ranimer Blanche-Neige a tant de peine qu'on en pleurerait.L'histoire, on la connait, mais la belle-mère fait peur, elle est vraiment méchante. La scène des 7 nains dans la mine est géniale. Même chose pour les scènes devant le miroir.Ce DVD n'est pas disponible en Amérique du nord. Il faut le commander de France en format PAL toutes zones. Quel dommage. Pourquoi?J'ai vu ce ballet pour la première fois sur la chaine Mezzo et tout de suite , il me le fallait.Cela a pris des mois pour que je le retrouve sur Amazon vendu par ABC Culture en France.Le vendeur est très serviable et l'expédition n'a pris que quelques jours.Le DVD comprend une interview d'Angelin Preljocaj et "Dans les coulisses de Blance-Neige" en français avec sous-titres en anglais.Je donne aisément 5 étoiles.***********************A story for older childrenI don't like modern ballets, I don't like Mahler's music, I don't like Jean-Paul Gaultier, but I love this Blanche-Neige by Angelin Preljocaj.The DVD case looks like it was designed by kids. The name of the ballet does not even appear on the cover of the box. Is it necessary to mention that the names of the dancers do not appear there either. Inside no text. No picture; nothing but the disc. For $40 it's a steal. I give MK2 one star out of 5.But wait.The music is composed of short excerpts from Mahler symphonies. The list is at the end of the DVD in the credits. So are the names of the dancers. There is no orchestra. But the music, it looks like it was composed for this ballet. Three thumbs up.The costumes from Jean-Paul Gauthier are wonderful. Once again, Well done.It's not a ballet on pointe, but what a ballet. Snow White (Nagisa Shirai) and the Prince (Sergio Diaz) are breathtaking. When the prince finds Snow White inanimate, he takes her in his arms, throws her, catches her, hugs her, caresses her, brushes her, wraps her around his body...Romeo and Juliet look like kindergarten kids. Nagisa and Sergio dance divinely, they are so sensual when the prince after having tried to revive Snow White has so much pain that one would cry.The story, we know it, but the mother-in-law is scary, she is really mean. The scene of the 7 dwarves in the mine is brilliant. So are the scenes in front of the mirror.This DVD is not available in North America. It must be ordered from France in PAL format for all areas. What a pity. Why?I saw this ballet for the first time on the Mezzo channel and immediately, I needed it.It took months for me to find it on Amazon sold by ABC Culture in France.The seller is very helpful and the shipment only took a few days.The DVD includes an interview with Angelin Preljocaj and Behind the Scenes of Blance-Neige in French with English subtitles.I easily give 5 stars.

Alles super. Immer wieder. Danke.

Mon film d'enfance !

Film ...con cambiamenti non previstiBrave le protagoniste

Buena adaptación a mí me ha gustado mucho