‘Winter’s War’ leaves staffer feeling cold

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“The Huntsman Winter’s War” left staffer wanting more.

“The Huntsman: Winter’s War” is another long, unimportant sequel to the prequel. It’s  a prequel/sequel/spin-off from the 2012 movie “Snow White and the Huntsman”, the fantasy adventure starring Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, and Charlize Theron as the Wicked Queen. “The Huntsman: Winter’s War”, was intended to build off of the success of that film yet featured none of the same elements that made the first movie so good. Hemsworth and Theron are back again but this time they’re starring in a two hour waste of bad accents and money.

In “Winter’s War” it is as if the producers picked a bunch of ideas from various movies and just mushed them together. One of the new characters, the Snow Queen played by Emily Blunt, seems to have been inspired by Walt Disney’s “Frozen”, which means essentially she is just playing an evil version of Elsa. In another stolen storyline, this time from “Narnia”, Blunt comes in on a polar bear, hides her castle in the north between two rock ice cliffs, and uses a power to turn her peasants into statues as punishment. Not at all very appeasing.

“The Huntsman: Winter’s War” was unoriginal, had a very predictable plot, and repeated most of the first movie. I think prequels are risky. Here you have this backstory and already magnificently written plot and then all the sudden “ahhh” they dragged this big story on to make it bigger. This sequel-prequel just doesn’t really work. I enjoyed the first movie because it was a newer plot line; it was fresh, it was able to hold more of a story and hold out great characters. With “Winter’s War” they took the old storyline and just added this and that.