"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Review

There is no doubt about it, when many of us get sick, and there is nothing to do but lay around, we decide to watch movies all day. When this happens we pull out all the old movies we haven’t seen in a while. I know when I get sick I pull out all my old Disney movies. Walt Disney created many timeless tales, one of which is the unforgettable “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Like so many Disney classics, this film gets watched by millions of children and their parents around the world, especially in the U.S. When I watch any Disney movie, especially this one, I feel like a kid again. We all know what it’s like to be reminded of our childhoods, and that’s what this fantastic flick does for me.

The tale “Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs” begins with Snow White being the fairest (prettiest) one in the land, and the evil queen does not like that the magic mirror is telling her this. Thus she sends a man into the woods to kill Snow White while she is picking some flowers. He decides once he is there that he cannot do it, and tells Snow White to run far away and never come back. Meanwhile, the man brings the queen back a pig’s heart to convince her that he has killed the beautiful Snow White.

In the next scene some of the animals that Snow White sings to bring her to a cottage in the woods, away from everything; however, after she cleans up the house she discovers that seven little men live there, and decides to take a nap and wait for them to return. When the seven men come home later that night, they find food and a clean house. They think that Snow White is a monster at first, but then they discover she is not, and want her to stay.

During her stay at the house she teaches them good manners, and they all get crushes on her. (Who would have thought?) One day, while the men are at work in the coal mines, the evil queen uses a potion to make herself an elderly woman, because she found out that Snow White was not in fact dead and has been living with the men in the cottage. She makes herself old so that Snow White will invite her in to help her; but, she has an evil plan to kill her by getting her to take a bite of the poison apples that she made.

When Snow White takes one of the apples, the animals go to find the men to save her . . . but they were too late. She was lying on the ground, the queen nowhere to be found. So then the seven dwarfs went after the evil queen and she fell off a cliff to her death. During her funeral they laid flowers all around her, but little did they know that true loves kiss could wake her. When the prince, that she had only just seen and talked to once in the beginning of the film, arrived he kissed Snow White. When she awoke, she said goodbye to her friends and rode off into the distance with her prince. Everyone loves a happy ending right?

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is a timeless tale that will be seen for years to come. Almost all of us have seen this film when we were little, and I’m sure most of our kids and out kid’s kids will be seeing it as well. I love watching movies I have not seen in a long time. This is just one thing that many of us do to remind us of our past. I think it is always good to feel like a kid again. Watching movies, like Walt Disney created, helps us feel young.