History YMMV / SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs

* DracoInLeatherPants: The Queen is getting this due to [[http://its-bewitched.tumblr.com/post/166285751096/celticpyro-cracked-disney-clearly-is-a "progressive" readings]] that try to blame her murderous grudge against her solely on the MagicMirror and ValuesDissonance. In reality, the Mirror ''never'' told Grimhilde to kill Snow White so she'd be the fairest one in the land again, plus [[AdaptationalVillainy in this particular version]] [[ResentfulGuardian she]] forced Snow [[FallenPrincess to be a servant girl]] ''[[FallenPrincess in a palace where she had all the right to live comfortably in]]'', [[EvilisPetty solely out of pettiness.]] Even if "Fairest of All" is included in the canon, it's not exactly enough to sweep her enormous abuse of an innocent teenage girl under the rug.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]] is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The WickedStepmother of Snow White, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid [[DrivenByEnvy in vain envy of Snow White's beauty]], and when her MagicMirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the [[VainSorceress Queen]] opts to have Snow White killed. Initially, she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an [[WickedWitch old hag]] so she can trick Snow White into eating a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned apple]], all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. [[TheDreaded Hated and feared across the land she rules over]], the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]] is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The WickedStepmother of Snow White, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid [[DrivenByEnvy in vain envy of Snow White's beauty]], and when her MagicMirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the Queen opts to have her killed. Initially she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an [[WickedWitch old hag]] so she can trick Snow White into eating a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned apple]], all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. [[TheDreaded Hated and feared across the land she rules over]], the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]] is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The WickedStepmother of Snow White, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid [[DrivenByEnvy in vain envy of Snow White's beauty]], and when her MagicMirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the Queen opts to have her killed. Initially she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an [[WickedWitch old hag]] so she can trick Snow White into eating a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned apple]], all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. [[TheDreaded Hated and feared across the land she rules over]], the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach. [[VainSorceress Vain]], {{sadist}}ic, and absurdly [[EvilIsPetty petty]], the Evil Queen would set the stage for every Disney villain to come.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]] is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The WickedStepmother of Snow White, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid [[DrivenByEnvy in vain envy of Snow White's beauty]], and when her MagicMirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the Queen opts to have her killed. Initially she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an [[WickedWitch old hag]] so she can trick Snow White into eating a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned apple]], all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. [[TheDreaded Hated and feared across the land she rules over]], the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach. [[VainSorceress Vain]], {{sadist}}ic, and absurdly [[EvilIsPetty petty]], the Evil Queen would set the stage for every Disney villain to come.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]] is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The WickedStepmother of Snow White, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid [[DrivenByEnvy in vain envy of Snow White's beauty]], and when her MagicMirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the Queen opts to have her killed. Initially she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an [[WickedWitch old hag]] so she can trick Snow White into eating a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned apple]], all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. [[TheDreaded Hated and feared across the land she rules over]], the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach. [[VainSorceress Vain]], sadistic, and absurdly petty, the Evil Queen would set the stage for every Disney villain to come.

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* EvilIsSexy: The Queen has been described as hauntingly beautiful, at least until she transforms herself into the hag.

** It is common knowledge that the film is an adaptation of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Coincidentally enough, one of the principal animators who penned Snow went by the name ''Grim'' Natwick.

** The original German dub comes across as quite a bit creepier when you remember that the voice of the Queen died at Auschwitz just five years after the dub was recorded for Swiss audiences. Even sadder, the same fate befell no less than three other voice actors in the dub, ''including the dub director''. Out of all the Jewish cast members for the dub, only Happy's voice actor escaped the Nazis.

** Also, modern audiences, mostly parent groups and younger people, see this as "just another sappy Franchise/DisneyPrincess film". Some of the more knowledgeable might also criticize it's rather [[OlderThanTheyThink erroneous status as the first-ever animated feature]]. While these criticism aren't ''[[BrutalHonesty entirely]]'' wrong, what they fail to realize is not just how groundbreaking it was in it's own right [[note]]it was still the first '''hand-drawn''' animated feature[[/note]] but also just how incredibly ''ambitious'' of a project it was when announced. To put things into perspective: At the time, Disney was not even big enough to be considered part of "Poverty Row" or the "Little Three" - movie studios controlled distribution, and ''actors''. This movie was made by ''none'' of Hollywood's studios, and did not employ their stars - at the time, something like that was unheard of. It was called "Disney's Folly" for a ''reason''.

** Also, modern audiences, mostly parent groups and younger people, see this as "just another sappy Franchise/DisneyPrincess film". Some of the more knowledgeable might also criticize it's rather [[OlderThanTheyThink erroneous status as the first-ever animated feature]]. While these criticism aren't ''[[BrutalHonesty entirely]]'' wrong, what they fail to realize is not just how groundbreaking it was in it's own right [[note]]it was still the first '''hand-drawn''' animated feature, as well as in three-strip technicolor when such a process was still very new and very expensive[[/note]], but also just how incredibly ''ambitious'' of a project it was when announced. To put things into perspective: At the time, Disney was not even big enough to be considered part of "Poverty Row" or the "Little Three" - movie studios controlled distribution, and ''actors''. This movie was made by ''none'' of Hollywood's studios, and did not employ their stars - at the time, something like that was unheard of. It was called "Disney's Folly" for a ''reason''.

** The Evil Queen's face is modeled after Creator/JoanCrawford. If one is to believe ''Literature/MommieDearest'', which was about a child's experience about a vain, abusive mother, then the resemblance is quite striking.

* The Evil Queen's face is modeled after Creator/JoanCrawford. If one is to believe ''Literature/MommieDearest'', which was about a child's experience about a vain, abusive mother, then the resemblance is quite striking.

** Also, modern audiences, mostly parent groups and younger people, see this as "just another sappy Franchise/DisneyPrincess film". Some of the more knowledgeable might also criticize it's rather [[OlderThanTheyThink erroneous status as the first-ever animated feature]]. While these criticism aren't ''[[BrutalHonesty entirely]]'' wrong, what they fail to realize is not just how groundbreaking it was in it's own right [[note]]it was still the first '''hand-drawn''' animated feature, as well as in three-strip technicolor when such a process was still very new and very expensive[[/note]] but also for how ambitious of a project it was when announced. To put things into perspective: At the time, Disney was not even big enough to be considered part of "Poverty Row" or the "Little Three" - movie studios controlled distribution, and ''actors''. This movie was made by ''none'' of Hollywood's studios, and did not employ their stars - at the time, something like that was unheard of. It was called "Disney's Folly" for a ''reason''.

** This was '''not''' the first animated feature film, as many people are led to believe; that title goes to the [[MissingEpisode lost]] Argentinian political satire ''El Apóstol'', made in 1917 by Quirino Cristiani and the oldest surviving animated film is The Adventures of Prince Achmed, made in 1926; predating ''Snow White'' by over a decade. ''Snow White'' was, however, the first '''cel-animated''' feature film, which utterly dominated animation for decades afterwards.

** Also, modern audiences, mostly parent groups and critics, see this as "just another sappy Franchise/DisneyPrincess film". They’re not ''[[BrutalHonesty entirely]]'' wrong, but they fail to realize how truly groundbreaking a project this was when released. To put into perspective: At the time, Disney was not even big enough to be considered part of "Poverty Row" or the "Little Three" - movie studios controlled distribution, and ''actors''. This movie was made by ''none'' of Hollywood's studios, and did not employ their stars - at the time, something like that was unheard of. It was called "Disney's Folly" for a ''reason''.

** The ''Snow White'' 2001 Platinum Edition DVD both kicked off one of Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo's most elite collections, and marked the first 2-Disc DVD of one of Walt's movies. Its [[http://filmic-light.blogspot.com/2010/10/2001-snow-white-home-video-platinum.html "immersive" bonus features platter]] proved so comprehensive, that very few other Disney [=DVDs=] could compare; even ''Snow White'''s Diamond Edition, Signature Collection, and 85th Anniversary Edition re-releases pale when fans lament that Disney replaced too many of the best Platinum Edition extras with filler[[note]]or nothing, for the VanillaEdition Diamond/Signature [=DVDs=][[/note]].

* GenreTurningPoint: Up until this film, cartoons were seen as a novelty, not serious works of art or entertainment. The idea that audiences would sit through a feature-length cartoon was considered. This film ''proved'' that feature-length animation was viable and that they could easily compete with live-action films.

* HypeBacklash: While still a respected and beloved film, it gets this for all of Disney's touting it as "the one that started it all." A lot of this is down to SeinfeldIsUnfunny too - with Disney perfecting their output since the 1930's.

** A Finnish blog describes the second Finnish dub of the film from 1980's as this compared to the third and newest Finnish dub made in 1994 (which can be found on the DVD). The blog describes the Finnish 1980's dub being more poetic and stylish than the Finnish dub from 1994, which concentrated too much in sounding as similar as possible with the original English version. The blog states that in the Finnish 1980's dub Snow White didn't have a voice as squeaky and high-pitched as in the English version but rather a youthful, motherly voice. The Evil Queen is described as having a voice that sounded realistically insane and bloodcurdling. The blog also criticizes the newer Finnish dub from 1994 for being way too subtle voice-acting and having ridiculous dialogue in some parts. Sadly, the Finnish dub from 1980's remains to be mostly lost.

** In a rather unfortunate case of this, this film was beloved in Nazi Germany (the next time Disney would have a movie ready for international distribution, Europe was kind in the middle of a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII huge war]], so it was more well known in Allied Countries at the time). Even Adolf Hitler was a fan, as he occasionally doodled fan art of the dwarves during war meetings.

** When the Seven Dwarfs first see that someone's in their cottage, they exclaim, "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Crickets!]]" This was actually a common GoshDangItToHeck version of "[[Literature/TheBible Jesus Christ!]]" for the time (Even [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]] can be heard yelling it at one point during the tornado), which led to Disney using it as the name for [[TheConscience the cricket]].

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Disney had to fight to get the film produced. Both his brother and business partner Roy Disney and his wife Lillian attempted to talk him out of it, telling him that "nobody wants to watch a movie about dwarfs." And the Hollywood movie industry referred to the film derisively as "Disney's Folly" while it was in production.
** There were plenty of reasons to scoff: At the time, dwarfs were mostly associated with carnival freakshows, the only other feature-length animated film ever made (a German production) had been a tremendous flop, and ''Snow White'' was monstrously expensive – the film's cost overran the expected budget by ''400%'' and production incurred debts that were, at the time, higher than the total value of Disney's studio.

** This was '''not''' the first animated feature film, as many people are led to believe; that title goes to the [[MissingEpisode lost]] Argentinian political satire ''El Apóstol'', made in 1917 by Quirino Cristiani. ''Snow White'' was, however, the first '''cel-animated''' feature film, which utterly dominated animation for decades afterwards.

** Snow White, depending on how she's viewed, is either a naïve teenage girl in over her head who made understandable mistakes, [[StupidGood way too polite and altruistic for her own good]] or just plain TooDumbToLive. Alternatively, she could be read [[AmbiguousDisorder as being somewhere on the autism spectrum]].