Critics slam 'Snow White' as film on track to be lowest Disney live-action remake in studio's history

Not only is the film projected to have the lowest opening weekend among the studio's live-action remakes so far, the movie is getting bombarded with bad reviews. 

"Presumably one of the reasons to bring actors into remakes of animated classics would be to add a warm-blooded pulse to these characters. Zegler manages that, but everyone else in 'Snow White' - mortal or CGI - is as stiff as could be," The Associated Press said about the film.

The Guardian chief film critic Wendy Ide gave the film one star out of five and called it "toe-curlingly terrible." She said that it's "A film made by people with cartoon dollar signs for eyes and not even the tiniest glimmer of art in their souls," and added that it's "a bamboo-splinters-under-the-fingernails viewing experience."

Vanity Fair chief critic Richard Lawson wrote in his review on Friday, "Hm? What's that? This Snow White is not a made-for-TV movie shot in Burbank but is instead a theatrically released feature film that cost upwards of $250 million to make? Oh. Oh dear."

Disney's "Snow White" remake could be said to be a bigger box-office bomb than "Dumbo," as it cost $270 million to make, as opposed to the latter's $170 million.

The film's controversy-filled production period may have contributed to its poor box office reception so far. In the three years leading up to "Snow White's" release, a year-long delay, Disney's apparent flip-flop on making the film's "dwarfs" depiction more politically correct, Zegler's bashing of the original film's traditional themes and her public demonization of Trump supporters, appeared to have soured the film before it even came out.