“Snow White” has been slapped with a warning on IMDb cautioning visitors that it could be the subject of “review bombing” due to the overwhelming majority of one star ratings.
“Unusual activity,” the warning says. “Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title.”
Review bombing is the practice of users intentionally driving a film’s score down by inundating a website with negative reviews, regardless of whether the reviewers have even seen the movie.
Some films are suspected of being the victims of review bombing even when the reviews are legitimate. It’s unclear what is happening for Disney’s latest live-action remake, but according to both critic’s reviews and box office results, “Snow White” is a total disaster on all fronts.
The current IMDb rating is just 1.5 stars, with 91.3% of reviewers awarding it just one star.
“Disney has continued to prove that live-action remakes of classic animated tales are getting tiresome and unoriginal. Besides The Jungle Book and Pete’s Dragon remake being pretty good, the other remakes have remained dull, baffling, or offensive. Snow White is one of those dull ones,” one featured review says in part.
“Covered with excessive usages of CGI and colors, the camerawork, production style and colors feel bloated and unsocial. Alongside with the bland direction, uninteresting takes of how they tell the tale and where the characters were once beloved in the animated movie, becomes lifeless and uninteresting here. The choice of using CGI dwarfs really was a bad idea because it came off as quite uncanny and unintentionally creepy to observe at times.”
“As always, whenever there’s a negative hype around a movie, my mindset is always, prove them wrong, give it a chance,” another reviewer shared. “It’s diabolical, honestly, I can’t understand how so much money and so much time has gone into this, the final result is cringe worthy. It is an absolute shocker, I am stumped to find any positives.”
“Disney, what on Earth have you done?” the reviewer concluded.
“If you ever wondered what it would look like if someone took the classic 1937 animated masterpiece, ran it through a corporate buzzword generator, and then tossed in some awkward CGI for good measure-congratulations, you’ve found your answer,” another reviewer echoed.
The results on popular review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes were no better. Currently, “Snow White” has a 40% critic’s score, and while the audience reviews are slightly higher at 74%, there’s still a lot of criticism for the massively hyped remake.
“Snow White” is underperforming box office expectations and is nowhere near recouping its $270 million production budget, especially after theater attendance dropped 66% during its second weekend in theaters nationwide.