Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves (2019)

 


Director: Sung-ho Hong

Producers: Belli Ramirez, Hwang Su-jin, Hyung Su Kim.

Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz (Snow White a.k.a Red Shoes), Sam Claflin (Merlin), Jim Rash (Prince Average), Frank Todaro (Pino, Noki, and Kio).

Mirror, mirror on the wall.

Which is the best Snow-White adaptation of them all?

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs!

Merlin is the leader of a group called the Fearless 7 (F7) who patrol Fairytale Island and defend it. They are Merlin, Arthur, Hans, Jack, Pino, Noki and Kio. One day, after flaying a dragon, they kill a witch, who seemed very suspicious, but she was the FAIRY PRINCESS! For killing her, the curse was that they will turn into dwarves and have to kiss the most beautiful woman to become human again. Fast forward to 7 years later. The dwarves are still looking for a woman to kiss to be normal. At the royal castle, a chubby and strong Snow White comes into her stepmother Queen Regina’s room, where she sees 2 red shoes, and she wears them. Regina tells her bodyguards to find the girl. Snow White crash-lands onto the dwarves’ house, under the alias of Red Shoes. For her new beauty through the shoes, Merlin immediately becomes smitten for her, and looking for ways to ‘impress’ her and he thinks he is not very good-looking in this form. In a neighboring kingdom, the selfish Prince Average (who insists it is pronounced Ah-VOO-rage) tries to take Red Shoes as a dance mate for his birthday round the corner. Want to know more? Watch the movie!

I liked that movie a lot! By the way, this is the first Korean (the movie has an English dub) movie I have watched. I like that there are many alterations in the story, with some of them being:

·         ‘Magic’ just being the Magic Mirror’s first name

·         Snow White being chubby and proud of that, and she gets her external beauty from the shoes (kinda like Cinderella, but instead of just needing beautiful clothes, she gets her beauty as a whole)

I also like that this is based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves story by the Brothers Grimm, but it is original in a multitude of ways. Disney, on the other hand, just takes a story, makes it into a movie (with the story being more or less the same as the original fairy tale), and some songs in the between. This is way better. I totally like the fact that it is the MALE who is insecure about how he looks to impress a girl. Usually, it is the reverse – a girl is insecure about how she looks like and tries to change it. I liked that the spells are limited, because magic usually is unlimited. Strange how Pino, Noki, and Kio’s photocopier can do it with spell cards and them still working (they are innovators, but can’t exactly see).

I wholeheartedly recommend this movie because:

1.       The voice acting is amazing.

2.       The originality is stupendous.

3.       The story is super!

4.       The characters are amazing.

5.       Overall, THIS MOVIE IS STUPENDOUS!

 

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