Snow White Charms as a Modern Spin on the Animated Classic

Marc Webb’s musical adaptation of Disney’s Snow White—a dazzling remake of the studio’s first fairytale film, a landmark 1937 release that helped launch its entertainment kingdom—may have had the most unrealistic expectations put on it. But rest assured: it delivers its own endearing spin on the original story while faithfully homaging the animated classic’s major touchstones. And most importantly, there’s no denying Rachel Zegler carries the film with the best vocal performance of any live-action Disney Princess. Now, the original animated Snow White is obviously an enshrined work of art, mostly because it was the first feature-length cartoon fairytale ever produced in the United States, and the beginning of Disney’s historic legacy in feature-length theatrical animation. There had been nothing like it before, and that in and of itself is probably the hardest thing for the live-action adaptation to overcome. What is this film doing besides being just another of Disney’s live-action r ... Read full article.