Two attempts to jazz up the old fairy tale plot in one year. "Mirror, Mirror" aimed for lighthearted camp...and flopped despite delightful design and a cluster of delicious performances.
This attempts to follow the narrative of the Disney version (too literally at times...the "run screaming through the forest" scene was so comical I expected Kristen S. to start warbling in a wobbly soprano...).
For me the attempts at modernizing the familiar plot MIGHT have played better if the script had been less lethargic, mechanical, dull, and hysterically self serious...( everyone wanders around grimacing as if they were doing Macbeth or a cut rate production of "Joan of Arc"...
Points for daring to rip off "Avatar" and try to twist the old "prince charming...loves first kiss" bit...but it does not keep this form being overlong and dangerously close to being flat out boring.
This attempts to follow the narrative of the Disney version (too literally at times...the "run screaming through the forest" scene was so comical I expected Kristen S. to start warbling in a wobbly soprano...).
For me the attempts at modernizing the familiar plot MIGHT have played better if the script had been less lethargic, mechanical, dull, and hysterically self serious...( everyone wanders around grimacing as if they were doing Macbeth or a cut rate production of "Joan of Arc"...
Points for daring to rip off "Avatar" and try to twist the old "prince charming...loves first kiss" bit...but it does not keep this form being overlong and dangerously close to being flat out boring.