Mirror Mirror USA 2012 – 106min.

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Mirror Mirror

Valérie Lobsiger
Movie Rating: Valérie Lobsiger

Snow White attemps to free her kingdom from then Queen. Starring Lily Collins and Julia Roberts.

On her 18th birthday, Snow White (Lily Collins) decides to leave the room her stepmother (Julia Roberts) has kept her in since her birth, to go investigate the village. But the poverty she encounters there shocks her; she doesn’t know the queen taxes them endlessly to pay for balls in the castle. On the way, she meets and saves Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer) who has been robbed by the seven dwarves, joins the dwarf gang and becomes a bandit and then, back at the castle, helps the queen throw a ball for the same prince. After dancing with him, Snow White has to escape when the queen orders her chancellor to kill her because she wants to marry the prince herself...

Although Julia Roberts camps it up in honor of evil step-mothers everywhere, Snow White is much less convincing as played by Lily Collins: a naïve young thing that turns into Lara Croft with an dueling sword. What first seems to be a parody unfortunately turns out to be just embarrassing drivel. And the moral of the story is carefully and feministically correct: all women have to do is believe in themselves and they will succeed...

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