Snow White & The Huntsman

Most people have read the original fairytale by the Brothers Grimm, and still today this story is magical for all ages. It´s now 2012, and it´s time to update the story of Snow White. Actress Kristen Stewart is mostly known for her Twilight audience. Thankfully she have tried different characters, like in Welcome To The Rileys, where she did a great performance as the teenage stripper, heading towards disaster. With this updated version of Snow White, will the audience still be enchanted, or is this a desperate try to make Twilight fans run to the cinema?

The princess of Tabor, Snow White ( Kristen Stewart ), is a beautiful very caring young girl, who her father King Magnus ( Noah Huntley ) is very proud of. Snow White´s mother Queen Eleanor dies, wich is a very hard time to handle. Out on a battlefield King Magnus defeats the Dark Army, and saves their prisoner Ravenna ( Charlize Theron ). Magnus falls in love with Ravenna and decide to marry her. But Ravenna murders her new husband, to take the thrown of Tabor, and makes sure Snow White is locked up in the tower of the castle. Years go by, and Snow White is still locked up, until one day when she manages to escape. She flee into the Dark Forest, where Ravenna´s soldiers can´t find her. Ravenna finds Eric The Huntsman ( Chris Hemsworth ), who she asks for help, for him to locate Snow White and capture her. If he does, Ravenna promise to bring his dead wife back to life. But when Eric finds Snow White, and find out this is all lies from Ravenna, he turns against her, realising she will not bring his wife to life. Snow White intend to fight back against Queen Ravenna, and manage to find people who are ready to fight for their freedom.

I´m kind of split about this updated version. There are some great scenes, like the dwarfs, who will make you have a good time. Also the troll scene is pretty cool. Then we have the bad part. Some scenes are very slow, in fact sometimes a bit too slow for this genre. I would have hoped for more battle scenes with trolls and the Glass Soldiers ( they are also pretty cool, when they broke into a thousand pieces ). What really saves Snow White & The Huntsman is Charlize Theron as Queen Ravenna, now this woman know how to act. Very powerful stuff indeed, when she let her anger go. Overall this version is good, but fairly. I say this because i feel there are some details that could have been better. So, it´s worth checking out, if you love fairytales and magic. But let´s hope they make bigger fight scenes until the next movie, we need more trolls, more monsters and more blood on the battlefield, then we will have a better version of Snow White.

Rating: DDD