Snow White 2025

So this previewed across Australia tonight in advance of its opening tomorrow. 
 

The Good. 

For a brief moment after the Johnathon Bailey look a like kisses her awake, Snow sings a verse that elevates the film into something touching. 

 

The Bad. 

 

Let’s begin. Everything 

The Evil Queen Drag Race song 

The dwarf’s. In this dwarfs are very upsetting 

The Beauty and The Beast opening song rip off 

The stupidity of the whistle lesson with Dopey 

That ending. 

That this even exists 

 

The Sad. 

 

Poor Gal, she was given nothing to work it. 

Every new song stops the film dead ( apart from that one verse mentioned above. ) 

completely devoid of joy, humor and magic 

I’m not sure who or why this film was made. 

Updated On: 3/19/25 at 07:38 AM

With so many diminishing returns and now this, which the Mouse House has backed off from like it was plutonium, do you think Disney will finally learn it's lesson and stop making live action films of their animated classics?

Yeah, me neither. 

Have you entertained the possibility that "the Johnathon Bailey look a like" is actually a Tony winner?

BrodyFosse123 said: "Dancingthrulife2 said: "Have you entertained the possibility that "the Johnathon Bailey look a like" is actually a Tony winner?"

Even Oscar winners have made duds. What’s your point?"

 

The "point" is that OP could easily have looked up and gotten Andrew Burnap's name -- but instead chose to be rude and disrespectful. Putting aside that, I'm pretty sure that Burnap is TOTALLY fine with not being associated with this dud of a film.

 

First, since this is the BroadwayWorld message board, let's at least acknowledge the Broadway credits of ''Snow White's'' stars and creative team. Rachel Zegler, who won a Golden Globe for playing Maria in Spielberg's ''West Side Story,'' just wrapped up a smash hit run, co-starring Kit Connor in ''Romeo + Juliet'' at Circle in the Square. She's Snow White. Andrew Burnap, a Tony winner for ''The Inheritance,'' is playing Jonathan in the live-action Disney remake, and is Cassio in ''Othello,'' opposite Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. The new songs in ''Snow White'' are by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the  Tony-winning team behind ''Dear Evan Hansen'' and the Oscar-winning duo behind ''La La Land.''

Of course, past awards don't guarantee success. And there are many detractors of ''Snow White'' who are rooting for it to bomb ... without even seeing the finished film. They fear it's ''too woke,'' or hate the casting of an actress with Latinx background playing Snow White, or are upset that she once called the original movie ''dated,'' etc., etc. At any rate, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter have published pieces on the early reaction indicating that ''Snow White'' might well surprise its critics. Variety film reporter Katcy Stephan praised Zegler as “a shining supernova,” adding that the film is a “visual feast with show-stopping new musical numbers.''

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/snow-white-first-reactions-rachel-zegler-1236337493/

Updated On: 3/19/25 at 12:13 PM

Score was the biggest problem for me. OUCH

Currently at 50 on Metacritic with 19 reviews

I’m not a “Disney Adult” by any means, but I was raised on the classics and Disney Renaissance era films. I was excited when this was first announced, because Snow White has always felt to me like a property that Disney could actually expand and make bigger, better, and more socially relevant - and they should, since it is their first princess and a very antiquated story. I also don’t really understand the choice of screenwriter and other creatives as their resumes don’t really align with this, and not to be ageist, but maybe we need people under the age of 60 to be revamping these classics…if we’re going for a more woke take and not just repeating shot-by-shot. 

I honestly don’t care in the slightest about any “controversy” that has come up - the casting just never impressed me in the slightest. Seeing the trailer and stills, the designs are…..lackluster. There are so many iconic images and designs from the original that are head and shoulders above what they put together for this (the apple? The transformed evil crone? Snow White’s hair and dress? The fierce look of the Evil Queen? Come on!) I was still holding out hope, but the P&P lead song is generic, and the Evil Queen song seems like a villain track that could be slightly tweaked and thrown into any story, Disney or not. 

Still, I am slightly open to the idea that I could be wrong. All I will say is that every movie theater within a fifteen mile radius of me has less than five tickets sold for every showing both tomorrow and Friday. Less than five tickets sold for every showing of the first two days of a major release is horrible. Should have either pushed it to Disney+, or pulled a WB and scrapped it for a write-off. I feel like the way this has rolled out is more damaging to the brand and IP than the rest of the remakes they’ve done. 

I still bought a ticket for tomorrow, and am happy to be proven wrong, I just don’t have high hopes. I fully anticipate walking out and wishing they had just re-produced the 1980 Snow White Live! HBO special they filmed at Radio City. 

MemorableUserName said: "verywellthensigh said: "Oh, yay. Another unhinged thread."

We can always use one of the other two you started instead.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/Disney-s-Snow-White-2025

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/Snow-White-2025

 

Oh, yeah!  Those!  Was I filling my diaper over someone getting the name of an actor wrong in either of these?  

rosscoe(au) said: "So this previewed across Australia tonight in advance of its opening tomorrow.


The Good.

For a brief moment after the Johnathon Bailey look a like kisses her awake, Snow sings a verse that elevates the film into something touching.



The Bad.



Let’s begin. Everything

The Evil Queen Drag Race song

The dwarf’s. In this dwarfs are very upsetting

The Beauty and The Beast opening song rip off

The stupidity of the whistle lesson with Dopey

That ending.

That this even exists



The Sad.



Poor Gal, she was given nothing to work it.

Every new song stops the film dead ( apart from that one verse mentioned above. )

completely devoid of joy, humor and magic

I’m not sure who or why this film was made."

Funny. It’s gotten pretty good first reactions so far:

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/snow-white-first-reactions-rachel-zegler-1236337493/

 

rg7759 said: "He may be a tony winner, I like him, but it wasn't for singing, and he struggled through his tony speech trying not to come off as an egotistical straight white male."

 

Yes, and he was (unfortunately) woefully miscast in CAMELOT at LCT.

I truly dislike the soundtrack. Pasek and Paul do not understand it. 

The whole direction of the movie rubs me the wrong way. What is up with the modern costumes and music? 

In WSS Zegler looks and sounds much more like a Snow White than in this film.

Even every fan-project online looks more authentic: 

Updated On: 3/19/25 at 06:02 PM

joevitus said: "I don't have much of a dog in this fight--I don't see the point of making these kinds movies (live action remakes of cartoons)"

I thought the point of all the live action remakes was the keep the IP under some form of copyright and sell more merchandise. The films don't have to be good to achieve that. Disney won't be able to extend their copyright on the original 1937 film forever, but certain elements like the design and colors of Snow White's dress, new songs and new orchestrations of the old songs could theoretically remain under copyright for another 95 years now?