Animation aside this is sexist and dull

Rating: 3/10 (18 April 2011)

Wat Disney's first full-length animated cartoon was a HUGE hit in 1937. I saw it when I turned 5 in 1967 (I was told) and LOVED it. I saw it again 7 years later (back then Disney films were reissued every 7 years at theatres) and was bored silly. Just saw the digitally restored version on DVD. It LOOKS incredible with bright colors and beautiful animation but I still don't like it.
The story is sssloooowwww and the character of Snow White is given NO characterization at all! She's just SO sweet and SO innocent that you just want to hit her. The Prince barely figures in this. The music and songs were terrible! "Whistle While You Work" and "Someday My Prince Will Come" were (kind of) cute but way too sweet. Also they're sung at such a high pitch they could break glass! The dwarfs are annoying and obnoxious and act like a gang of badly behaved children. Their "comical" antics were anything but. Only the animals come across as nice. Also the sexism is horrific. Snow eagerly agrees to keep house for the dwarfs for no good reason whatsoever. Yet when the Prince awakens her she has no problem running off with him to be "happily" married! I realize this was made over 70 years ago for kids but that doesn't excuse it. I acknowledge the film does have an important place in film history but I found it slow, stupid and boring. I can only give this a 3.