Disney’s Snow White (2025) movie lands a user score of 2.1 on IMDB, review bombed to the depths of the worst 100 chart.
Haters, it seems, really love to hate. Launching over the weekend to pretty decent reviews was Disney’s long-mooted live action take on Snow White. It’s not been much of a commercial success for the company, with a global opening weekend that’s fallen short of $100m, but over time, by the nature of what it is, it’ll continue to find an audience.
However, it’s people who haven’t seen the film who’ve seemed to enjoy aiming at wrecking ball at it. Irrespective of actually the bit where you go and see a film before rating it, the new Snow White has become the latest victim of review bombing. Users have headed to IMDB and hammered it with one-star reviews.
They’ve got their scalp, too. At the point this piece is being written, Snow White is now the 18th worst film of all time on the IMDB bottom 100 list. Its average user score is 2.1 out of 10, and it’s keeping company with films such as Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, Birdemic: Shock And Terror and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.
I’m going to take a leap here and suggest that most of the people hammering Snow White with single star reviews on IMDB haven’t watched the movie, and instead there’s political or hate-driven motivation for trying to take the movie down. Much of that was discussed in this piece.
As much as Disney doesn’t need me defending it, there’s hardly been a queue of studios putting a big blockbuster into cinemas this March, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for people to watch a movie before rating it. If you’ve paid your money and don’t like it, fair enough. If you’ve paid your money and think it’s the 18th worst film in the entire history of cinema, fair enough.
But it’s all a bit grim, really. As someone who’s written about film for decades now, it does feel that the actual movie at the heart of a story is becoming the least important part of the narrative. Hopefully I’m wrong. At the moment, it doesn’t feel like it.
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