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This film is a magical spell which many have fallen under., 19 September 2007

Author: Mightyzebra from Scotland

Based on the Brothers Grimms' fairytale, this film is about a princess called Snow White who is looked after by her cruel stepmother, who is an evil witch. As long as the witch is the "fairest one of all", Snow White will be safe...

An indescribable amount of people love "Snow White", probably as their favourite film. Millions of people have fallen under its captivating and entertaining spell, loving the film in every way.

This, is indeed a very beautiful film, with memorable characters and very detailed animation, especially for that time. This film also has its laughs and is very cute.

No wonder so many people have fallen under "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs"'s spell! Although, surely there have to be other films out there that people could love just as much, or maybe even more?

This is not the best film in the world, but it CERTAINLY isn't the worst and everyone who watches it will like it in least one way. This film was also the start of the Disney company's fabulous line of animated films, good and less good.

Ah well. Enjoy "Snow White". :-)

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The beginning of the Disney motion pictures, 9 August 2007

Author: Electrified_Voltage from Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Walt Disney produced many full-length animated features during his long career, and many more have come from the Walt Disney Company since his death in 1966. However, the very first of them all was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", an adaptation of the version of the story from the Brothers Grimm. This 1937 motion picture turned out to be groundbreaking, and although seven decades have passed since its original release, it is still remembered as a classic, well-deservingly!

Snow White is a princess, and the stepdaughter of the evil, vain Queen. One day, when the Queen asks her Magic Mirror "Who is the fairest one of all?", she doesn't get her usual response! Instead, she learns that Snow White is now the "fairest one of all"! The Queen immediately grows jealous, and sends a hunter out to kill Snow White! Luckily for the princess, the hunter decides that killing her just wouldn't be right. Wanting her to live, he tells her to run away, which is just what she does. Looking for a place to stay, she ends up in the house of the Seven Dwarfs (Dopey, Sleepy, Sneezy, Doc, Bashful, Grumpy, and Happy), and begins to live with them. Meanwhile, after the Queen learns that Snow White is still alive, she intends to do the killing herself!

This was one of many Disney films that I saw when I was a kid, but my memory of it wasn't as clear as some of the others. A few months ago, I watched it for the first time in many years, and didn't think much of it. However, I was more impressed when I watched it again shortly after, and even more impressed with a third viewing! I found Snow White's singing voice somewhat annoying at first, and with more viewings, I still didn't become a big fan of it. However, this certainly didn't totally ruin the film for me. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" has some good dialogue (some of which I may not have noticed before), excitement, and memorable characters (including Snow White, even if she's not the greatest character in Disney history, along with most of the Dwarfs, who often add humour to the film).

After my most recent viewing, I'm not sure whether to give "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" an 8 or a 9 (out of 10, of course). I certainly wouldn't give it a 10 (it's not absolutely perfect in my book), but I was very impressed with most of it. I don't know whether it was enough for me to give it a 9 rating or not. Well, nonetheless, I can still understand why this first full-length piece of animation from Disney has been labelled a classic by so many people throughout the decades! For hardcore fans of Disney or animated family adventures in general, and probably for some moderate fans as well, there's lots of fun to be had!

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Wonderful., 9 August 2003
Author: movies2u from United States

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Snow White was the first Disney movie ever made, and is still the best known movie of all time. The movie had beautiful animation, and was followed up by Filmation's "Happily Ever After"- the second story in the Snow White Legacy. Filmation's attempt was very good, and the movie was still funny and enjoyable, but it will never ever match up to it's original. I give Snow White a 10/10.

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A beautiful movie with great set pieces, 2 March 2002

Author: Jeremy Bristol from Plattsmouth, NE

I'm with a lot of people, in that I think Snow White as a character is too much of a stereotype to be really interesting, but at least she's not the princess in Gulliver's Travels!

What really makes this movie is the artistic animation, which does exactly what animation is supposed to do: create feelings through moving images, not create a realistic world. When Snow White flees into the forest, we see what she sees--that the whole world is suddenly out to get her. The trees come to life in demonic fashion, and the floating logs become crocodiles.

A note on the songs--while today in America it seems kind of silly to have songs about working and cleaning, work songs have been a part of nearly every culture throughout history. If you watch the subtitled version of Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" or Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," you will hear examples of Japanese work songs.

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Superior to the Cartoons released today by Disney Studios, 17 August 2001
Author: eibon04 from New York City, NY

A beautifully colored and wonderfully depicted story of the Snow White tale. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937) is one of the few Walt Disney pictures that I think is any good. Tends the water of fairy tale and horror. This is the film that is what many Disney films have tried to live up to and some failed. A very good film that is made special by the early use of Technicolor. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs(1937) made an impression on many Italian horror filmmakers who would use this impression to do some of the best Italian horror films ever. The use of color in here would influence Dario Argento to fashion his film Suspiria(1977) after the style and look of this animated feature.

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Acclaimed, but under-appreciated, too, 14 May 2004

Author: kintopf432 (kintopf432@hotmail.com) from St. Paul, MN

Disney's premiere full-length animated film is more than worth a look, even today. A movie as acclaimed and beloved as 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' shouldn't really need a defense, but some movie lovers who haven't seen it in years may assume it's a gooey, girly snorefest (à la 'Sleeping Beauty')--and many of the comments here suggest that viewers don't really get what they're looking at. Sure, Snow White herself is a complete drip, and her Prince is even worse; and yes, there is an obnoxious sexism burbling not too far below the surface. But the film is crammed with so much busy motion and freakiness that we barely even care. Every frame is as amusing and ingenious as one of Gepetto's clocks in 'Pinocchio,' whether it's inhabited by dancing dwarfs, clattering dishes, bubbly water splashes, or that incredible swarming menagerie of deer, squirrels, rabbits and birds. And the rotoscoping technique, though undeniably primitive, is remarkably effective at creating this believable fantasy world. It adds a sometimes shocking element of realism to the cartoonier characters--by God, Happy looks *real* during his dance in the 'Silly Song'--and adds a sinister theatricality to the horrible eyeless Mirror and the stooping, nightmarish witch as she shambles out of the reeds and into the fog. God, that witch! Disney is often criticized for sanitizing the original fairy tales in his adaptations, but this one, while it may stop short of having the Queen actually *eat* 'Snow White's' heart, is still pretty horrific in places. (Not to mention the macabre sense of humor she magically acquires after drinking the potion--'Thirsty? Have a drink!') The experience of the film's dark, unique fantasy world only improves on repeat viewings, too. Highly recommended, especially to those who haven't seen it in a while. 9.5 out of 10.

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Disney's shining star, 8 April 2003

Author: NewEnglandPat from Virginia

A wonderful film that is one of the most beloved in the entire world. This Disney classic a great favorite of generations of people, a film that never loses its freshness, an adventure that never grows old or becomes dated. A pretty young maiden is the envy of a beautiful but icy, evil queen, who cannot bear the thought of Snow White being "the fairest in the land". The film has many memorable moments, such as Snow White's flight through the dark, forbidding forest from the huntsman's knife, the dwarfs' march home at sunset after a long day in the mines, the queen's frightening metamorphosis from an elegant and regal figure to a wretched, cackling hag, the joyous evening Snow White and the little men spend at their cottage, the witch's flight from the dwarfs in a driving rainstorm to the high, rocky cliffs, watched by two expectant, malevolent vultures, and the moving, somber vigil of the dwarfs and forest animals at Snow White's bier before she is awakened from her eternal sleep by love's first kiss from her prince charming.

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Still looks great, 15 February 2003
Author: juanignaciosupremo

The first animated movie in history that was to become a failure before the release,became one of the perfect examples of animation.The sets and colurs looks astonishing and the characters are wonderfully drawn and their unique personality(for eg the dwarves) are a tough nut to crack.The music was very nice, especially "Heigh Ho" and "Someday my prince will come". The only things i didn´t like very much was the queen and the prince.The queen didn´t have any development.She looks like she was there to do some evil things to Snowhite and then go home.The prince looks like the male version of Snowhite, but i guess cannot judge that considering the time it was made. I liked this movie very much and recommend it to all ages

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The One That Started It All, 6 February 2003
Author: MICHAEL O'FARRELL (mpofarrell) from Albany, NY

Here is where it all started. This landmark film, the very first full length animated feature, belongs on the short list of the most influential American movies of the Twentieth Century. If Mickey Mouse was the rock on which the House of Disney was built, then SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS was the cement that helped form the Disney conglomerate as we know it today.

Rudimentary by today's standards, SNOW WHITE nevertheless remains a masterpiece of animation because it possesses two qualities totally lacking in most of today's computerized works : Heart and Soul. Despite the advancement in technology, regardless of the magic of pixels and virtual imagery, most present-day animated features lack basic storytelling skills, relying rather on the easy clever remark and an annoying tendency to preach than tell a good tale. And nothing can compare to the inspired and solid craftsmanship of Disney's original "old man "team of animators who bravely learned their trade while creating this nascent work of art. SNOW WHITE is the cornerstone of all of Walt Disney's greatest animated films : an involving story, characters the audience can care for and identify with, superbly drawn animation put into brilliant motion and heightened by the innovative use of the then revolutionary multi-plane camera ( a device that dramatically changed the look of cartoons, giving scenes a third dimensional look). Added to all these innovations were the remarkable songwriting contributions of Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, responsible for the superb musical score.

"Someday My Prince Will Come", Heigh Ho" and "Whistle While You Work' are just three examples of an entire soundtrack that is a model of perfection and to this day one of the great movie song scores of all time. One could go on and remark on the incredible detail afforded the dwarfs' home, the wood sculpturing that adorns everything from the little mens' beds to stair-posts and doorknobs.

The detail is astonishing, and the blood and sweat of the animators' labors will forever be enshrined in this lasting work of art.

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One of Disney's best!, 14 November 2002
Author: Allie (allie1962) from Seattle, WA

I would say that Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is one of Disney's best movies. It teaches some good values to young kids. It mixes good and evil so wonderfully. Like some of the other Disney movies, like The Little Mermaid and The Lion King for example. I would recommend this movie to young and old alike.

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