The movie takes place in a more magical world than the original story. The story begins by informing the viewer that once upon a time a green fire landed on earth high on a mountaintop. The fire was magical and brought with it dragons and elves, which embodied its power. We then fast forward to a dragon killing a king, and then to his wife who is practicing her false sorrow for his funeral, who is obviously the evil step mother. The prince from the adjacent land has come to propose marriage to her because he fears that she will invade his country, though he doesn't really like her as she's killed off all of the elves and dragons living on the king's land. Little does he know, she is also planing to attempt a union with him because the magical green fire is rumoured to be on his land, and she is of course power-hungry. We see some of her greed and vanity when she does the whole mirror mirror routine, which they explain by having her use the power stones she stole from elves. This all changes however, when the prince sees Snow White, which takes the story off into a familiar direction, save for a few altered details and a prophecy that has to do with the magic fire.
I thought the inclusion of the magical fire and the elves was an interesting spin, and I thought the film pulled it off quite well, it wasn't too campy. There were elves instead of dwarves, and the magic fit in with the storyline quite smoothly. The acting wasn't that bad either. There were some predictable character sub-plots, but overall it was decent. The thing that really killed this movie were the special effects. I was shocked and appalled when I found out this was made in 2012, because watching it, I pegged the CG to be maybe late 90's early 00's. That animation that poor was still being used in this day and age is just disgusting. The worst of it was the dogs... they could have saved the money and just used real dogs. Even if the dogs weren't as ferocious as would be desired... it wouldn't have looked like crap. This movie wasn't a blockbuster or anything, it might have gone straight to video, but for me that's not excuse for shoddy quality.
Besides that, I did enjoy it. Snow White played a more active role than housewife and mock corpse (taking nothing away from Disney, I love their version) and actually saved the day in her own way. The cinematography was decent too, so it wasn't horrible to look at. Overall this was an acceptable version of the story, but there are better versions our there.
Isn;t this from a mockbusters company?
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