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Wednesday Night's Hollywood Preview of Snow White and The Huntsman

Snow White and The Huntsman is entertaining but Hollywood forgot to provide the script to this talented cast.

So many prophesies, so little time to fulfill.  And oh, how we love the predictable. But should she keep her clothes on or off seemed to be the opening theme of Snow White and The Huntsman, Universal Pictures, marginally virginal, and far too thin version of this fairytale classic.

Anyone who has been watching the TV series, Once Upon A Time, will by now have gone way beyond settling for the Disney version of this updated allegory.  So why did Hollywood decide to produce a virtually all Brit cast film, with Frodo style dwarfs, action packed dark forces and enough magical forest sans the unicorns and rainbows (although there were fairies), that could test the limits of even a 6 year old's imagination? We've kind of seen it before.

It could have been a much more story driven movie.  Instead, Snow White and the Huntsman for all of the great actors involved, fantastic editing, excellent direction, great musical score by James Newton Howard and props to the filmmaker and effects, somehow decided to forego a real script with any depth.  So much talent wasted on trivial line readings of every kind of do-over of a verse one could imagine. Even Charlize Theron's effortless beauty could not enhance the fluff enough.  And really, we wished she had more to do besides be bad in ways that confused us with her virtually unwielded powers that continued to mystify by way of being used or unused, it seemed, in all the wrong moments.  It would have been much more awesome to have had a more cunning than insecure Queen.

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The upside is, if you loved the Thor-meister Chris Helmsworth, you will not be disappointed here apart from the fact that he didn't have enough to act.  Rachael Sterling (daughter of legendary actress Diana Rigg) brought depth to the miniscule time she was given on screen along with a host of other well known talents such as Bob Hoskins, Eddie Marsan and Toby Jones to name a few, who brought an although expected comic effect, never-the-less kept us well entertained.

Then there was Kristen Stewart whose entire often bare and eventually chainmailed shoulders this picture's success rested upon.  As I sat watching the credits discussing the particulars with some of my more illustrious film critic friends from the like of Sirius Radio and such, the conclusion was that although Ms. Stewart was an obvious choice and did a fine job of embracing the role, it was unfortunately flat.  If you are looking for any sort of emotional weight, you won't be finding it here.

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Overall, Snow White and the Huntsman is an entertaining flick with definitely some great visual screen moments and worth the ticket for younger crowds.  Adults can opt to stay home for this one.

Opening in theaters on June 1st.  Check your local listings.

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