Dargis at NYT starts out with the appropriate ritual denunciations:
It is — and has been — a dispiritingly familiar spectacle of bigotry and rank nonsense, with the ugliest twittering centered on the casting of the young Latina actress Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”), who wasn’t deemed pale enough by trolls to play the title role. Of course the 1937 character is animated and she doesn’t look white as snow, either, because people don’t unless they’re in whiteface.
but summarizes her own take with:
In an essay pegged to Disney’s unhappy 2019 live-action version of “Aladdin,” the critic Aisha Harris wrote in The New York Times that “shoehorned-in progressive messages only call more attention to the inherent crassness of Disney’s current exercise in money-grabbing nostalgia.” That was true then and it remains the case with “Snow White,” which is neither good enough to admire nor bad enough to joyfully skewer; its mediocrity is among its biggest bummers.
"KenB was literally complaining about live actions remakes of animated princess movies?"
Um... I what now?
Dargis at NYT starts out with the appropriate ritual denunciations:
but summarizes her own take with:
It’s comparing 2024 to 2020 - switching from under 30 to 18-29 was just a stylistic choice.