I went to see Mirror, Mirror when I made the mistake of giving my daughters the choice of movie to go see.
It's not an awful movie, and there's clearly been a lot spent on it, but it's not a good movie by a long way.
The movie begins promisingly with background story told in puppets and CGI, and the's a mildly entertaining Julia Roberts monologue, which suggests a knowing, tongue in cheek tone that, had it been followed through, could have made a much better film.
The problem is that it doesn't really do anything more than the classic Walt Disney cartoon. The fight scenes are more realistic (hey, it's got real actors not characters!) but there are probably too many of them; evil queen isn't really evil enough - for a film that was clearly a vehicle for Ms. Roberts it does rather waste her talents; comedy, and here I mean the dwarves and the excruciating scene when the prince thinks he's a dog, is just not very funny (though my 6-year loved the prince as dog scene); and the great romance isn't, we'll, romantic enough.
It's a missed opportunity. I just hope that the second Snow White more of the year (Snow White & the Huntsman) is better.
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