In the hand of Hollywood you'll notice a rather large bag of tricks used to spin old stories new again. We've seen it a hundred times before: Contemporary filmmakers and artists slap a new coat of paint on an old fairy tale. The results are sometimes refreshing but often no more than a waste of time.
Which brings us to Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror. This year's second of three retellings of the Brothers Grimm's unforgettable Snow White fairy tale (Grimm's Snow White this past February, and June's Snow White and the Huntsman rounding out the year of White) is a cute, self-indulgent experience, which likely falls into the latter category.
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2012.