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‘Snow White’s Predictably Sleepy & Dopey Flop

Forget the movie’s controversies about Gaza, little people, and its leading lady. What doomed the vastly underperforming ‘Snow White’ is that Disney simply overestimated the value of a live-action remake of a historic, but not exactly beloved, film.

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‘Snow White’ was not remotely the fairest of them all, but not for the reasons many of us expected. Photo: Courtesy of Disney
Scott Mendelson
March 25, 2025

Snow White was not remotely the fairest of them all, but not for the reasons many of us expected. Most assumed that the reboot would be doomed by bad press, or the Fox News–led backlash against a so-called “woke” version of the classic fairy tale, or even a star in Rachel Zegler who wasn’t willing to mute her criticism of Israel or of Prince Charming’s “stalker”-like moves in the 1937 classic. But per EntIntelligence, the film slightly overindexed in red counties compared to the average family/animated title.