Disney’s Snow White remake debuts with poisonous low rating on Rotten Tomatoes
The film is skewing more towards 'poisoned apple' than 'fairest of them all'.
Disney’s headline-grabbing live-action remake of Snow White has debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with an underwhelming rating after mixed-to-negative reactions from critics.
The new movie, out in cinemas on Friday, has received a low score of 48% from 96 reviews – making it officially considered ‘rotten’ on the review aggregator website.
Snow White is Disney latest reimagining – as the studio terms it – in a long line of remakes over the last decade, from The Jungle Book to Aladdin and Cinderella.
This one sees Disney tackle its first-ever feature-length animation from 1937, starring Rachel Zegler in the titular role.
But despite initial promising reactions on social media after a rocky road to release, many official critics’ reviews appear to consider the film closer to a poisoned apple than the fairest of them all.
‘I had high hopes that Snow White would make me happy. Instead, this dopey remake made me sleepy and grumpy,’ quipped Odie Henderson for The Boston Globe, while The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called it an ‘exhaustingly awful reboot’ and added in a one-star review: ‘This feels like a very hard day’s work in the IP diamond mine.’
