This was a movie with a climax that involved Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, and Jessica Chastain throwing down all at once, with magic powers and weapons. That should have been a fight to melt faces off and instead we ended up with bad cgi mush. It takes Zack Snyder levels of hackery to waste something that potentially…

Just realized they've both played iconic female action women and Snow White evil Queens.

I love fantasy and fairytale movies and I enjoyed the first one (unironically!), so I'm in. Thanks for giving such an even handed review too, AV Club. I feel like a lot of reviewers tend to automatically shit on more female-demo targeted stuff without trying to understand that maybe elements of it didn't resonate with…

Charlize Theron, man. She can single-handedly lift total dreck up to 'very watchable' status. It's not easy to put your own stamp on an already iconic character, but her Evil Queen owned every iteration before it. I wanted her to win so bad.