Toadsly’s Succinct “Snow White and the Huntsman” Movie Review: I Was Rooting for Super-Sexy Queen Ravenna
Posted by: Toadsly
on Jun 05, 2012
Give an Oscar-winning actress the chance to play a full-blown baddie, and she’ll steal the show! Gorgeous, talented Charlize Theron plays evil Queen Ravenna as a militant feminist in the surprisingly satisfying hit film Snow White and the Huntsman (SW&H). And it works! Queenie’s a man-hater (for good reasons), and she dispatches Snow White’s kingly father with a dagger through his heart on their marriage bed. The film coyly hints that the only man she now beds is her sadistic brother. She doesn’t treat members of her own sex much better, but, at least, they’re still alive after Ms. Misandrist literally sucks in all their youthful beauty. I told you she was bad. And speaking of bad, Kristen Stewart is a lackluster Snow White. She looks and acts chronically constipated. You know, like she still can’t decide between that creepy, sensitive vampire and the muscle-bound, goofy werewolf. Even the film’s hungry bridge troll decides to obey its nose and not ingest this colon-clogged princess. (That’s my tilted interpretation.) Chris (Thor) Hemsworth muscles his way through another blockbuster as the “Huntsman.” The supporting players are superb; especially, the seven digitally-dwarfed dwarfs. It all works in a kind of epic way! Yes, great armies attack walled cities and knights in shining armor chop at one another with heavy swords and axes. SW&H has something for everyone – even an ambiguous ending for the artsy-fartsy crowd. Well, so long! I’m off to find minimally-clothed pictures of Ms. Theron floating around in cyberspace.


(Insert wolf call here.)