It's taken me a long while to review
Mirror Mirror, because, frankly, I
didn't want to. Some films are fun to review because they are amazing, and others are fun to review because they are terrible. The least fun thing to review is a completely blah, mediocre movie, especially when it comes from one of my favorite directors. Let's just say that Tarsem Singh's latest directorial effort is, at best, a mixed
bag. The story is a somewhat revisionary take on the Snow White fairy tale,
focusing on Julia Roberts' evil queen just as much as Lily Collins' (she of the
famous father and equally famous eyebrows) Snow White. The dwarves are
misunderstood thieves, the queen has a twin sister living in a mirror (a la
Cloris Leachman in the Olsen twins'
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble), and there is a people-
