Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) - 84 Minutes

It's day one of our amazing Disney marathon and we've just finished watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  We're so glad to have started our year-long marathon and can't wait to see what the rest of the year has in store.

Eli

Rating: 8/10

Reaction: This is one of my favorite Disney animated movies, and of course you can tell why if you know me! I am all for camp - and Snow White is one of the dimmest, ditziest Princesses out there. She's pretty much good-for-nothing except cleaning and cooking, plus she prays and is totally fake-nice to everyone. (I don't believe her for a second.) I think she's really just a Republican. The Evil Queen is fabulous, but really, she needs to get over her obsession with beauty. There seems to be no one else in her castle - maybe even her kingdom - save the Huntsman, so who the heck is she going to impress by being the fairest of them all? Certainly not me. I mean, we can't even see her weave under that headdress.

I love the way Snow White prances from scene to scene. She's so flighty (literally and figuratively) that it's exciting to watch. She even wears heels all through the forest! Can you imagine running through the woods in those puppies? Jeez, Snow. Your feet must be killing you. And yet, the first thing you want to do is illegally enter a stranger's cottage and tidy it up? Please - I'd be like "Bitch, where's the bed?!" Oh well. She's dumb. But I still love the movie because of it!


Regan

Rating: 5/10

Reaction:  I know this is an old movie, but I still find Snow White's lack of character and utter stupidity a little painful to watch (not to mention that her voice is gratingly high-pitched).  I mean, even the forest animals are smarter than she is!  Don't talk to creepy old women, how hard is that?  It was also a pretty interesting choice to spend half an hour on the dwarfs meeting Snow White and then to switch to narration to explain Prince Charming's harrowing search for his comatose true love, which had the potential to be the most interesting part of the story.  Instead, Prince Charming barely counts as a character at all.

There were some truly terrifying scenes, though, which I enjoyed--the Queen in her dungeon and Snow White's flight through the forest at night were pretty memorable.  It was pretty fascinating seeing how the early animation was done--Snow White seemed almost drawn by crayon, while the other characters didn't look all that different from the style of the 90s Disney movies.