Problem is, she can't even afford the royal ball at which she plans for them to fall in love. The Prince has already met Snow White; they were both wandering in the woods when they encountered the seven dwarfs, jolly bandits with good hearts.
It is Snow White and not the Prince in this version who bestows a life-changing kiss. She's all sweet, all innocent, but Julia Roberts steals the show with her imperious and autocratic Queen. She consults her own image in a mirror, located as only Tarsem would place it in a weird structure in the middle of a lake.
She never asks who is the fairest of them all, and thus never has to hear the inevitable answer, but the Queen's vanity and fear of aging give Roberts some plum scenes. Consider the one where she's having a spa-style beauty makeover before the ball. Her lips become bee-stung with the help of real bees, she gets a manicure from disgusting wormy creatures, and her skin is refreshed with a preparation made up from parrot droppings. Yes, parrot droppings, and we see the parrots dropping them.
All of this is in place and looks great, but the dialogue is rather flat, the movie sort of boring, and there's not much energy in the two places it should really be felt: Between the Queen and Snow White, and between Snow and the Prince. The story is a listless tale that moves at a stately pace through settings that could have supported fireworks. Indeed, the characters who seem to care the most about each other are the dwarfs. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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Top Movies at the International Box Office. Of the poisoned princesses, who would end up fairest of them all—Lily Collins or Kristen Stewart? The fairy tale bar has been set so low that even the seven dwarves would throw it a side-eye.
To many, this might not be particularly surprising. Julia Roberts, whose star power has been fadingw rapidly with a flaming tail of box office flops, has officially lost whatever charm her canyon-wide smile once held. She vaguely channels a detached imperiousness into the script, which works when her Queen is bored, or humorously irreverent. Porcelain skin?
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