Ever since Disney started making the live action remakes there has always been people who don’t think they need to be made and that they should have just stuck with the originals. And I have to say, I don’t blame them.
Though there have been some pretty good ones out there such as the Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin, but some of the others haven’t been so lucky to be that way. I won’t be giving my opinion on every live action Disney has made, but I will be covering some of the more argued about ones.
One that I feel was a very talked about one that hasn’t even come out yet is Snow White. In this movie Snow White is played by Rachel Zegler. Some people were complaining about the casting because they said she didn’t look enough like how the cartoon looks.
When I first saw the trailer I thought they did a pretty good job making her look like the cartoon. I think the only thing that may have been off was the costume but other than that I thought it looked pretty good. Some people were upset because when it was first announced Zegler had said that she didn’t even like the original movie and because of the many people said that she shouldn’t play her.
Despite all of the other controversies about the movie I don’t think it looks that bad and I think she will do a good job. Will I be watching the movie? No, probably not, Snow White has never been a Disney movie that I really liked anyways but I know that there are still some very excited for it to come out.
One of the better remakes they did has to be Beauty and The Beast. Of course there were still things that others and myself wish they had done better and though this movie did receive some backlash it’s not as extreme as some of the others.
I thought that this movie had added some really good things into it like how we get to see a little more into the backstory of why he got turned into a beast. We also get to learn more about Belle’s mother which we don’t really hear about in the cartoon. They also added a song called Evermore, which is sung by the beast right after Belle goes to look for her father and the beast thinks that he has lost Belle forever. I was very happy this song was added because it is now one of my favorites from the movie.
Though there were many good elements added to this movie there were also many things that were cut. Most of them were small details that not many people would pay attention to but one of the bigger things was them changing a song.
When Lumiére is singing Be Our Guest they cut out a whole part of the song. I was pretty disappointed when they did that because I really like that song and I know some others were too.
Although they cut many good parts of the movie, this still remains to be one of my favorite live actions that Disney made. I thought that the casting was very good and I really enjoyed how the movie looked in general.
The last remake I will be talking about will be Cinderella. Now, there have been millions of versions of this classic cartoon and people love it everytime. There have been many different interpretations of this movie even to the point where the character is no longer a princess and just a regular teen one. An example of this would be Another Cinderella Story starring Selena Gomez. This is a remake that I remember watching all the time and I remember really liking this one.
The 2015 remake is considered to be the most like the original cartoon. Even though many said it was a pretty good movie, many still had a problem with it.
In this movie they attempted to have the character’s backstories branch out a little more but they failed to do so as it doesn’t really add much to the story. I have not seen this specific version of Cinderella but I have seen others and I thought they all did good in their own ways.
No matter what there are always going to be people who have a problem with every remake Disney decides to make but even with some of the problems those movies may have there will always still be good elements in them too.