EXCLUSIVE Disney's panned Snow White movie starring Rachel Zegler faces fresh embarrassment over Seth MacFarlane dig
The box office flop, starring Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler, has suffered countless embarrassments ever since the project was initiated, right the way through to its subsequent release in March and beyond.
And Family Guy creator Seth, 51, was the latest in line to publicly rip into the movie as he kicked off NBCUniversal's Up Front at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Breaking into song at the network's special showcase event, he raved about why NBC is superior as he gleefully hit out at other streamers, including Disney, Hulu and Netflix, over their content.
It was during this moment when he seized the opportunity to take aim at Snow White's CGI motion-capture dwarves.
He sang: 'Oh you might be attracted by Disney, for the magic that they have magically appear.
'But you'll feel fright when you see Snow White 'cuz the dwarves look really f***ing weird.'
While Snow White ignited a plethora of controversies earlier this year, one major criticism from fans was how filmmakers had used computer-generated 'magical creatures' for the dwarves rather than hiring actors.
The decision also angered actors with dwarfism, who blasted Disney's reliance on CGI as 'absurd' and 'discriminating.'
At the time, one TikTok content creator protested outside a cinema.
John Ferguson, who has dwarfism, shared a video on social media of him dressed as one of the seven dwarfs stood outside a movie theatre holding a placard which reads: 'Hire real dwarfs.'
'It seems like nowadays you can protest just about anything. But why don't we begin protesting about the fact Disney decided to use CGI dwarves and not even the real thing,' Mr Ferguson said.
He continued: 'We could've got them hired we could have got money for something but no.'
The remake of the classic 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs film failed to land rave reviews from critics.
Daily Mail's Brian Viner gave Snow White two out of five stars, calling it a 'painfully muddle-headed affair' and 'pallid reimagining' but admitted Zegler 'plainly has oodles of talent.'
'Disney's contorted attempts not to offend anyone have somehow managed to offend everyone,' Viner noted.
Meanwhile, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave Snow White one out of five stars and called it a 'pointless' and 'exhaustingly awful reboot' with 'tiresome pseudo-progressive additions that tie the whole thing in knots.'
'Where other movies are playfully reimagining the backstories of famous villains, this one plays it straight, but with carefully curated revisionist tweaks,' Bradshaw wrote.
'Those otherwise estimable performers Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot are now forced to go through the motions, and they give the dullest performances of their lives.'
The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey gave the Brothers Grimm fairy tale one out of five stars, criticizing the studio for 'summoning up the most corporate response possible' to the depiction of the controversial dwarves.
Prior to its release, Snow White was mired in controversy due to comments from its star leads Zegler and the absence of the iconic song 'Someday My Prince Will Come.'
In an effort to be more progressive, Disney also changed the dwarves to be called 'magical creatures' instead.
Critics of the remake first jumped on Disney for the decision to cast Zegler in the role due to her Colombian ancestry after the original fairytale revealed that the princess is given her name because her skin is 'as white as snow.'
At the time, Zegler said that the origin story had changed, and in Disney's new version the princess earns the name due to a snowstorm she survived as a child.
She then came under fire for criticizing original animation when she called it 'dated' during a red carpet interview with Extra TV in 2022.
She eventually walked back her comments and assured fans that the love story would be 'integral' to the remake's plot.
Disney fans then expressed discontent at Zegler when she said she was 'scared' of the original version as a child and only watched it one time.
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