This week the heat team grabbed their popcorn and Minstrels and headed to the pictures to watch the three biggest releases in Moviesville this week - Snow White And The Huntsman; starring Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron, Prometheus; starring Michael Fassbender and LOL; starring Miley Cyrus
Here's what we thought:
Snow White And The Huntsman
STARRING: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin
DIRECTOR: Rupert Sanders (CERT 12A, 127 minutes)
The plot: What is it with Kristen Stewart? Once again, she finds herself at the apex of a love triangle, as the titular huntsman (Hemsworth) and her former childhood friend (Claflin) compete to be her chosen one. But all that comes later. First, her princess Snow must escape the clutches of her evil stepmum Ravenna (Theron), team up with the huntsman dispatched to bring her back, and fall in with an octet of diminutive bandits. With this ragtag army’s help, can she rally the oppressed people against their oppressive ruler?
What’s right with it? Directors who hone their craft making commercials often fall into the trap of style over substance (Immortals’ Tarsem, Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski), but feature debutant Sanders manages to ravish the screen while taking us on an engaging emotional journey. The sequence in the fairy forest is adorable as the kingdom of animals and magical sprites responds
to Snow’s inner beauty. Bless!
What’s wrong with it? Despite a few attempts to give the story a contemporary political edge (Ravenna is just standing up for her gender), the film doesn’t penetrate the beauty-youth equation very deeply, while Snow’s special status emanates from her being a true-born princess – hardly a progressive message from a film claiming a fresh twist on a classic tale.
Verdict: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? Mopey Kristen Stewart might not be the first answer we’d all give to that question, but the surly one effectively holds the centre of this supremely stylish assemblage of road movie, romance and fairytale action-adventure. HHHH @charlesgant
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