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New 'Snow White and the Huntsman' Trailer and Five-Minute Preview

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Still deciding if the superior Snow White adaptation is Snow White and the Huntsman or the one that looks an ABC Family Original Movie? Well, to help figure it out, here's almost eight minutes of footage from the former--some of it comprised of the same promising footage we've already seen but much of it featuring little or never-before-seen elements like the dwarves, Charlize Theron's propensity for attacking by way of CGI shard swarms, and a fantastical woodland sanctuary that makes Lisa Frank school supply imagery look subdued.

Trailer:

That all looked cool and engaging and stylish and consistent in tone and all, but then, Mirror Mirror includes such literary, Kafkaesque scenes as Nathan Lane's campy servant hilariously transforming into a bug, so how can we really declare a winner so early in the Snow White race?

If you're hoping to go into the film pretty fresh, you might want to skip the below five-minute preview, as it looks like it hits pretty much every major plot point of the first half of the film. It also reveals the existence of a weaselly character who should be Paul Bettany, but is not Paul Bettany. What gives?

  • November 10, 2011
    Yesterday's colorful-yet-gothic poster and this first trailer's eagerness to boast of coming "from the producer of Alice in Wonderland" really makes it seem like Universal would love for us to believe Snow White and the Huntsman is a fanciful morsel left dangling off Tim Burton... / Continue →
  • November 9, 2011
    Boasting imagery plucked from the ill-defined area between Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and a Britney Spears perfume commercial, here's the first banner for Snow White and the Huntsman. As is my duty to remind you, this is just one of two Snow White adaptations coming out i... / Continue →
  • July 25, 2011
    While Relativity Media's Tarsem Singh-directed, still-untitled Snow White film seems to be going for a born-of-a-Thomas Kinkade painting approach for their title character, it looks like Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman is going a less traditional, more Lord of the Rings... / Continue →
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