Sunday, October 21, 2018

Happily Ever After (1990), 5-

G | 1h 15min | Family , Animation , Musical | 20 June 1990
The Evil Queen is dead and Snow White is on her way to see the 7 dwarves when Lord Maliss, the Queen's brother, sees her in the looking glass. 
Director: John Howley
Stars: Edward Asner, Irene Cara, Carol Channing, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jonathan Harris, Sally Kellerman, Malcolm McDowell, Tracey Ullman.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099733/
Watched online, mediocre print.

4 songs in the Soundtracks. Seemed like more were sung.

With all those famous actors providing voices, you'd think this would be better. (I only noticed CC, DD, PD, ZG during the show.) But writing is everything, and this was a "new" Snow White story, where SW & her Prince go on horseback to invite the 7 Dwarves to their wedding, only to find they've moved to a new mining site, and left behind their magical Dwarfella cousins who are Mother Nature's assistants.

Lord Malice (not Maliss) is brother to the dead evil queen, and now wants revenge on Snow. So his evil magic goes up against Mother Nature's good powers. 

I can't imagine why this was made. Snow White is not a compelling character; it's the dwarves that make her tale memorable. But they're replaced by 7 female minis with major magic.

I wasn't entertained, and likely did not absorb much of the plot twists. Too much magic puts me off.

IMDb raters mostly agree: 5.1 with almost 2k votes.

Filmation & more, dir. Howley; 5-