Mirror, Mirror won't change your life, but it's a fun homage to a timeless classic that lets you escape into a fairy tale world, that actually doesn't seem to far away from here.

Tarsem directs as confidently as ever, and while the movie isn't quite the magical ride it potentially could have been to say I left the theatre feeling fairly happily ever after wouldn't be too far off the mark.

You'll laugh intermittently, but more often, you'll notice where you're supposed to be laughing and aren't.

With obvious ambitions of becoming a new generation’s The Princess Bride, this outdated material gives us no reason to deviate from Disney’s 1937 classic as the go-to version of Grimm’s fairy tale.