Mirror, Mirror: The Untold Adventures of Snow White
Release Date
02 Apr 2012
02 Sep 2012
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Visionary director Tarsem Singh (Immortals) rewrites fairy tale history as a wicked enchantress (Julia Roberts) schemes and scrambles for control of a spirited orphan's (Lily Collins) throne and the attention of a charming prince (Armie Hammer). When Snow White's beauty wins the heart of the prince that she desperately pursues, the Queen banishes her to the forest, where a ravening man-eating beast hungrily awaits.Rescued by a band of diminutive highway robbers, Snow White grows into an indomitable young woman determined to take back her realm from the treacherous Queen. With the support of her subjects, she roars into action in an epic battle that blends spectacle, magic and contemporary humor in Singh's signature, jaw-dropping visual style.
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Julia Roberts
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Armie Hammer
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Nathan Lane
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Lily Collins
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Mare Winningham
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Michael Lerner
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Sean Bean
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Movies.ie Critic Review
MIRROR MIRROR (USA/PG/106mins)
Directed by Tarsem Singh. Starring Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, Danny Woodburn, Martin Klebba, Michael Lerner, Sean Bean.
THE PLOT: It may be her 18th birthday, but Snow White (Collins) isn’t about to get any special presents from her evil stepmother (Roberts). Not even a day outside the palace, The Queen determined to keep her late husband’s only child largely confined to her room. Determined to walk amongst her people once again, when she reaches town, Snow White is shocked to find that her father’s once-prosperous kingdom is on its knees, The Queen having taxed everyone into deep poverty. And left seven horizontally-challenged miners with little hi-ho, hi-ho to sing about. So, the little tykes have turned to ambushing anyone who rides through the Dark Woods, including the charming Prince Alcott (Hammer)…
THE VERDICT: Playing like an xmas panto at Hollywood High, and bathing in the pale light of a TV special, the studio-bound Mirror Mirror takes the Snow White fairytale and tries to turn it into a tongue-in-cheek romp. Complete with faded movie star as the big, bad, brazenly evil stepmother. Only Roberts doesn’t quite rise to the occasion, lacking the inherent sweet wickedness of a Susan Sarandon. Or maybe they should have thought about casting Heather Mills?
Collins is effective though, looking uncannily like a young Liz Taylor at times, whilst there are glimmers of what might have been (such as the highwaymen dwarves having been cast out because of the Queen’s Banish All Uglies ruling), but this club-footed comic twist on an old fairytale might as well have been called Disenchanted. RATING: 2/5
Review by Paul Byrne