‘Snow White’ Scores Ridiculous Number of 1-Star Reviews on IMDb; Has One of the Site’s Lowest Aggregates

Snow White is no stranger to cinematic makeovers, but Disney’s live-action remake of the classic 1937 animated movie has proven to be one of their most divisive movies. While the film defied critics with a reasonable 71% Rotten Tomatoes audience score, over on IMDb it is a very different story as the film has gained one of the lowest ratings on the site. While many cite the atrocious 2009 Dragonball Evolution as the movie site’s worst-rated film, there are several with lower scores, and Snow White has found itself in the same territory thanks to an incredibly high volume of 1-star reviews, leaving it with a 2.2/10 score.

While many of the lowest-scored movies on IMBd have a fair split of ratings from one to 10, Snow White has garnered a ridiculously high proportion of reviews, giving it one of the lowest scores possible. At the time of writing, 78% of the film’s reviews are 1-star reviews, equating to 30,000 of the 39,000 ratings logged. For those still using Dragonball Evolution as a benchmark for disastrous movies, that film has only 46% of its ratings in the 1-star category, and other abominations of cinema such as Son of the Mask also only have around a 45% ratio of lowest marks.

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The problem with these reviews is that they come with click-button anonymity which makes it hard to work out if these scores are being added by people who have genuinely seen and hate a movie, or just those looking to jump on a review-bombing bandwagon. In the last year, Rotten Tomatoes began separating their audience reviews into verified and non-verified categories in an attempt to prevent those with agendas from crashing movies’ ratings. IMDb doesn’t have such a safeguard.

Is ‘Snow White’ Really That Bad?

According to all the facts, no it is not. There have been several controversies surrounding Snow White that have overshadowed the movie at every turn. From the initial casting of Rachel Zegler in the titular role, which was met with an incredible amount of racial backlash, to the controversy around the use of CGI dwarfs, there was no stage of the production that did not meet a wall of criticism.

Despite that, and issues surrounding Zegler and costar Gal Gadot’s views on the Israel-Gaza war, the film arrived this weekend whistling a tune that was happier than many anticipated. Although the film underperformed for a Disney movie, it still managed to pull in $43 million, making it the second-highest opening of the year so far. Like many blockbusters, the biggest problem with Snow White is that its budget was ridiculously high, meaning that only a huge box office result would see it called anything other than a failure.

In all, Snow White has probably performed as well as was expected and has followed a trend of diminishing returns on Disney’s live-action remakes that has seen films based on animated classics from more than 30 years ago not performing as well as more modern stories from Disney’s renaissance years. Whether that trend continues will be seen later this year when Lilo & Stitch arrives in cinemas. In the meantime, Disney will be hoping that Snow White’s slow start could still emulate the recent success of Mufasa: The Lion King, which opened poorly but built to become one of the highest-grossing movies of 2024.

Source: IMDb

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