Just perfect...

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

escaping from the frame of fairy tale for give a dark, cold, bitter show of power, dark magic, innocence and hate. and admirable performance of Sigourney Weaver as the Stepmother. impressive for the forms of poetry, for the special effects and for the wise science to use the details for a film who transforms well known facts in a terrible show. so, a tale of terror. different by many other versions. but useful for remind the profound message of the story created by Grimm brothers. because it is an exploration of the basic senses of fairy tale.with precise science, with fascinating art.

The story of Snow White takes on a new twist, literally, where young Lilli Hoffman (Monica Keena) is disliked by stepmother Claudia Hoffman (Sigourney Weaver), causing her to eventually flee deep into the forest and into the home of seven gruff-looking and aggressive gold miners.Most of the elements of the classic fairytale is included in this movie, but it is also filled with more adult-themed elements such as a semi-graphic scene of Snow White's mother dying in childbirth, passionate and provocative moments shared between Snow White's father Frederick Hoffman (Sam Niell) and Claudia, and the menacing, violent and belligerent characteristics of some of the seven gold miners (not dwarfs as depicted in the original tale). Filmed in the Czech Republic and Germany, this film captures the beauty of the Crusade era with its rich European and classical flavor; the Hoffmans' palace has a magnificent design and the visual effects, costumes and make-up were superb. Thomas E. Szollosi and Deborah Serra wrote a very intriguing screenplay for the movie that provides a plot that is more than just a story about an innocent little princess escaping from her jealous and vain stepmother - it in detail captures the heart-pounding terror and evil magic Claudia and her magic mirror brought, and the horror Lilli and the seven men experience from Claudia's powers. It also elaborates on the frictional relationship Claudia and Lilli share. In addition, the entire atmosphere of the movie is mostly dark and dim, yet hopeful.The acting was mostly great, in which I thought Weaver's Claudia and Gill Bellows' Will character carried the movie. Weaver's character is vain, antagonistic and devious, but has a purpose to her intentions in the movie, and Bellows' character is courageous and is an unlikely hero. Keann's Lilli character is a typical rebellious and bratty teenager, which made her less charming and attractive. The plot's pacing was a little slow and full of those odd dialog exchanges between Lilli and the seven men, making you just root for some poison apple action to happen already. Overall, it is an eerie, thrilling and somewhat creepy adaptation of Snow White that does away with the all-is-well "fairytale" element and is something not suitable for young children.Grade B

had i have known that half of this was that troll-bitch sigourney weaver masturbating i probably would've selected other *coughs* material 'cause honestly I DON'T KNOW WHETHER I CAN EVER GET IT UP AGAIN.i mean, the little girl is hot, i'd snuggle her face off any day the week, and the older little girl reminds me of that girl i bunny'd in high school bu's that wretched crone slut wot acts like she can act but certainly can't and i finks this proofs that it's not just that shitty director cos i mean the alien movies yeah they's okay she's like a strong female woman in that she looks like a man & i don't expect it stops below the belt like does she even have any tits?

The truth is that Grimms' fairy tales were rather dark and bloody. Just read a copy of the unexpurgated versions - out in many different editions - and you will see. From pre-Roman times and onward, Europe had a dark and difficult history. What the Grimm brothers were trying to do was to recreate a pan-Germanic history, and the fairy tales - which they literally collected by traveling around Central Europe and interviewing people, especially the elderly - helped them research folkways, folk beliefs, and old ways of speaking and narrating. What they recorded was marvelous in m,any ways, and not always lovely.We've seen the movie and think that it goes just a bit beyond what the Grimm brothers recorded. However, this version is certainly much more consonant with their work than is the sugary-sweet Disney version. That happens a lot. For example, Johnny Depp's version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is much more in line with Roald Dahl than is the Gene Wilder version.