- Scenario: Slightly revised fairy tale, with nice additions. However, the emotions they want us to feel are just not translating right, we feel nothing. They are plastered all over the place without introducing us to them.
- Dialogs: Mechanicals, at best.
- Characters: Overly simple.
- Actors: Except for Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter who both did a nice job with very little, as well as Holliday Grainger to a lesser extent, the rest of the cast barely made par.
- Photography: Charming, with incredibly detailed and colorful sets, decors and costumes.
- Sound: Nice music and score, no more.
- Special effects: Beautiful, just one of two very minor details wrong.
- Synopsis & information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661199/
- Who is it for? Those who want to revisit the fairy tale in a grownup setting.
To fully enjoy this tale of course, you need to believe in the whole prince charming crap.
That glass slippers of this tale have annoyed me for a long time. The ancient French version mentions slippers made of "vair" which is a posh type of fur trimming used in the 13th and 14th century, but is also pronounced like "verre" which means glass. So "vair" instead of being accurately translated as vair (which is the correct English word for that type of fur) was mistranslated to glass. Ghastly.
