Review of Mirror Mirror (2012) by Hayden H — 30 Jan 2015

(12%).

In a year in which we had the privilege of two mainstream Snow White movies this really struggles to compete owing mainly to it being more than just a little flat as it labours constantly throughout, while failing to be either funny, interesting, or even remotely exciting. Julia Roberts is solid enough and keeps everything just about together. But her overall involvement is not enough to save this falling between the cracks of cinema history. No one needs to watch this, not even kids, as it amounts to nothing other than a slightly big-budgeted TV movie that somehow made it into cinemas with zero new or clever ideas on tap. My advice: stick with the classic Disney version, or the universally watchable "Snow White and the huntsman", or failing that get a book out and read the original Grimm tale. All will be better than watching this.