I bought this movie to prove a very specific point: that Kristen Stewart is the reason the previous film tanked. Without her, this should have been a great fantasy film.And I was right.
The Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) is happily living in obscurity in Snow White's kingdom when he is tracked down by William (Sam Clafin) and ordered to locate Ravenna's (Charlize Theron) magic mirror. Snow White had decreed that the mirror be taken to the heart of Sanctuary where its evil could be contained but the guards she sent with it never came back. The Huntsman knows the Ravenna's equally power-hungry sister, Freya the Ice Queen (Emily Blunt), will also be after the mirror so he and some dwarves hustle after it. They are joined by the Huntsman's wife, Sara (Jessica Chastain), who is pissed at him for believing she's been dead all this time when she was really a prisoner of the Ice Queen.
This is not a perfect movie and probably not even a classic in the making but it is a damn fine summer film and not an embarrassment to the genre. This finally feels like they got the right mix of action, humor, and fairy tale that they struggled with before. If they do a threequel, I hope they dive into some of the Rose Red stories. Those don't get enough play to be overly familiar with audiences so they could do a lot to make them fit the world they've already built.
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