Mirror Mirror

Mirror, Mirror won't change your life, but it's a fun homage to a timeless classic that lets you escape into a fairy tale world, that actually doesn't seem to far away from here.

Tarsem directs as confidently as ever, and while the movie isn't quite the magical ride it potentially could have been to say I left the theatre feeling fairly happily ever after wouldn't be too far off the mark.

You'll laugh intermittently, but more often, you'll notice where you're supposed to be laughing and aren't.

This umpteenth reiteration of the fairy tale has held fast to its most tiresome aspects: Snow White's dull sweetness and the evil Queen's one-track motivation.

'Mirror Mirror' is as gaudily spectacular as you expect if you've seen director Tarsem Singh's films, 'The Fall' and 'Immortals'.

The film sleepwalks along confidently enough in its numb, semi-unfunny, semi-unserious way. But the tale's passion and subversion have been removed.

With obvious ambitions of becoming a new generation’s The Princess Bride, this outdated material gives us no reason to deviate from Disney’s 1937 classic as the go-to version of Grimm’s fairy tale.

The film's inability to show restraint in its slapstick visuals and madcap gags causes a predictable repetition of puerility.

Despite all the problems I had with the film, the simple truth is I never for a single minute regretted being in the audience.

This is a corny, drab, and lifeless take on a familiar tale, that leaves very little for anyone to take away.