The film follows a beautiful princess named Snow White, who uses the help of a band of seven dwarfs as well as a prince, to reclaim her throne from her wicked stepmother, the enchantress Clementianna.

It was cast by Tarsem Singh and edited by Ryan Kavanaugh, Bernie Goldmann, Brett Ratner and Kevin Misher.

It stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, Nathan Lane, Mare Winningham, Michael Lerner, and Sean Bean.

the Queen spots them dancing and orders her manservant, Brighton, to take Snow White into the forest and feed her to a monster known as "the Beast."

Showing deep care and concern for Snow White, Brighton spares her and requests that she run away from the Beast, before the latter collapses at the dwarfs' hideout.

The dwarfs take her in, and introduce themselves as Will Grimm, Butcher, Wolf, Napoleon, Half Pint, Grub, and Chuck.

Using dark magic, the Mirror Queen attacks Snow White and the dwarfs with two giant marionettes, but she defeats them by cutting their strings.

On the day of her wedding, the Queen arrives to find that Snow White and the dwarfs have raided the party and abducted Alcott.

[citation needed] Roberts was the first to be cast, because very early on Tarsem Singh wanted an Evil Queen with whom audiences could relate.

[5] Originally Saoirse Ronan was considered for the role of Snow White but the age difference between her and Armie Hammer was too large (he was 25 and she was 17).

The visual effects were designed by Tom Wood and executed by Wayne Brinton, Tim Carras, Sébastien Moreau and Amanda Dyar.

[12] The song "I Believe in Love" was originally written in 1970 by Nina Hart, a singer-song writer and stage and TV actress (then working at New York City music-publishing company, Golden Bough Productions.)

She performed the song in Forman's film, playing a character at an audition; Hart's recording was a hit in Italy and was later covered by Iranian singer Googoosh.

[16] Roger Ebert gave it 2.5 out of 4 stars and said: "It is a sumptuous fantasy for the eyes and a pinball game for the mind, as story elements collide and roll around bumping into each other.

If there's a major difference from the earlier versions, it's how this one has beefed-up roles for the seven dwarves, who here seem to be a merry band in search of Robin Hood.

[17] Robbie Collin from British newspaper The Telegraph gave the film four stars describing it as "an exuberantly charming fairy story that owes as much to the gnarled folk tale illustrations of Arthur Rackham as the stagey, saturated lunacy of that half-loved, half-feared East German fantasy The Singing Ringing Tree.

It's a Grimm piece of work, but far from a grim one: without rehashing the seminal Disney animated version, it radiates gorgeousness and good humour with a near-nuclear intensity."

He concluded the film is "the opposite of Tim Burton's brash, chaotic, dispiritingly popular Alice in Wonderland: here, the artistry of the cast and crew leaps off the screen, not 3D computer graphics.