A beautiful movie with great set pieces

Rating: 8/10 (2 March 2002)

I'm with a lot of people, in that I think Snow White as a character is too much of a stereotype to be really interesting, but at least she's not the princess in Gulliver's Travels!
What really makes this movie is the artistic animation, which does exactly what animation is supposed to do: create feelings through moving images, not create a realistic world. When Snow White flees into the forest, we see what she sees--that the whole world is suddenly out to get her. The trees come to life in demonic fashion, and the floating logs become crocodiles.
A note on the songs--while today in America it seems kind of silly to have songs about working and cleaning, work songs have been a part of nearly every culture throughout history. If you watch the subtitled version of Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" or Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," you will hear examples of Japanese work songs.