Both CNN and AP described Snow White’s opening weekend box office as “sleepy.” Does that make Disney feel Bashful? Grumpy? Dopey? It’s not good news, Doc. $43 million domestic is nothing to get Sneezy at. But Happy? Bob Iger is not.
Audiences are staying away from Snow White in droves, but why? Maybe it’s the endless controversies that have dogged the film’s production. Or the reviews which offer Rachel Zegler glowing praise and very little else besides “Hey, it’s not the worst Disney live-action movie!” Or it could be the CGI monstrosities they made the dwarfs into. Maybe a movie about leftist infighting over how to respond to fascism doesn’t seem all that fun to watch right now, for whatever reason. In psychoanalysis, this is called “overdetermination,” when something has many,…
