When it is recommended that the Queen marry the Baron (Michael Lerner) in order to restore faith in the villagers that their kingdom has hope, the Queen refuses because she is too vain to marry someone as old and ugly as the Baron. Meanwhile, Snow White sneaks out of her room because it is her eighteenth birthday and she wants to see the outside room. What she sees shocks her. She wants to go back and make things right for the villagers. While she is out she runs into Prince Alcott (Armie Hammer) who was just robbed by a band of giant dwarfs (literally giants because they fought on stilts). After their interaction she sneaks back into the castle where she decides to crash the Queen's party later that night.
Prince Alcott goes to the castle to seek clothes, since the dwarfs left in the woods half naked. The Queen likes what she sees and decides that he should be the one he marries. She just has to woo him first, which she is planning to do at the party. But when he sees Snow White she has all of his attention. The Queen has had enough and orders Brighton (Nathan Lane) to take Snow White into the woods to kill her. Birghton has a soft spot for Snow White since he knew her father and he was a good man. Instead he lets her live and tells her to run as the monster approaches. Snow White stumbles onto to dwarfs home and they decide that she can stay. When she learns that they are thieves she gets upset. They settle on a deal though. She can stay and become part of their gang only if they steal from the Queen to give back to the villagers.
The Queen sick of trying to fight for Prince Alcott's attention, draws up a love potion to give to him. It works, but it happens to be a puppy love potion so now the prince is acting like a crazy half man half dog in love. It's up to Snow White and her band of giant dwarfs to save the prince from his upcoming marriage to the Queen.
As you can see it doesn't follow the story of Snow White exactly. Mostly just the idea behind it. Vanity, good vs. evil, true love etc. It is clear that this movie is meant for children because all of the jokes are of that nature. Most children's films these days seem to be a mix of both children and adult humor but this rarely has a joke meant only for adults. But me being like a giant kid was laughing along anyways. I wasn't too impressed with Lily Collins or Armie Hammer (who always just seems like a big dummy in everything I have seen him in). And the fight scenes were nothing draw dropping (but the stilts fighting was pretty cool). I was surprised to see that Tarsem was the director because he is a very visual director, so this was extremely tame for him. But I did get excited when there was music at the end. I was hoping for a big Bollywood dance number but it just didn't happen. I kept waiting for it to pick up and it almost did at the end but oh well. He tried. Maybe white people can't do Bollywood.
Rating: **
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