Mirror Mirror

[Drunk Monk]

So I finally saw Snow White and the Huntsman last night.  It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.  It's all about Charlize as the evil queen.  She's a great vampy villainess, a redux of Michelle Pfieffer's witch in Stardust.  There are some amusing nods to the Disney version and lots of sword fights (which are mediocre at best) and plenty of CGI effects.  On the whole, it takes itself way to seriously trying to be the next LotR franchise.  It's a fantasy world where the regal don't 'got shit all over them' and everyone else does.  Liam is Thor - I just can't get past that.  Kristen Stewart is again the object of attention for two hunky guys.  When in Cadaques, we saw Catch That Kid (2004), starring a coquettish Kristen caught between two dudes again.  She was good in that, btw.  It's a totally dumb Disney flick, featured Corbin Bleu, a black kid with a huge 'fro that Disney was trying to push back then.  The story is the three kids are trying to rob a super bank safe which is more guarded that Magneto's cell.  It certainly set the tone for Kristen's Twilight menage a trois, and this - totally ironic as she's come out gay since - perhaps that is what those early casting directors saw in her.  I just can't get past her buck teeth.  So there are tiresome Liam/Kristen scenes that you just want to fast forward over, some armored battle sword fights that are mediocre, and some great Charlize vamping it up scenes.  Just watch the Charlize scenes are you're good.  

Prequel might be good.  Looks like more Charlize, plus Emily Blunt....and Thor too, but whatev... seeing how it looks more like the Snow Queen, I just gotta 'let it go'.



Still hoping for Snow and the Seven.