Greg Laurie Criticizes Disney’s New Live-Action ‘Snow White’

Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California recently told his social media followers that Disney has “lost the point” with the new live-action remake of the beloved animated classic “Snow White.”

The live-action “Snow White,” which released last Friday (March 21), brought in just over $87 million worldwide at the box office its first weekend.

The original animated film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was released in 1937 and was based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was Walt Disney’s first feature-length animated film.

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Laurie, who released his own animated series last year, titled “The Adventures of Ben Born Again & Yellow Dog,” shared how much Disney inspired him during his youth.

“I grew up loving all things Disney, like many of my generation,” Laurie said. “I watched the ‘Mickey Mouse Club,’ then later the ‘Wonderful World of Color.’” Laurie said he was enamored by Disneyland and vowed as a child that he would visit the amusement park every day as an adult.

“Well, I’ve been an adult for a while, and I’ve not kept that vow,” Laurie joked. “But my love for Disney Animation stuck with me. So much so that I became a cartoonist myself.”

Laurie then expressed his disappointment with Disney’s live-action “Snow White” film, saying that Disney has “lost the point.” He added:

It didn’t help that the lead actress, Rachel Zegler, torched the original film in interviews before the cameras even started rolling. She dismissed the 1937 animated classic as “extremely dated when it comes to ideas of women being in roles of power and a woman is fit for in the world.” She added, “There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her—weird. So we didn’t do any of that this time.”

“So when audiences flock to see Snow White for the last 87 years,” he said, “what they really hated about it was that love story and the triumph of good over evil?”

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“Apparently, Zegler missed the entire point of this fairy tale,” Laurie claimed. “‘Snow White’ is a moral fable. It’s a story about good versus evil, written as a tale about a queen so obsessed with their own beauty and status that she’s willing to murder an innocent girl just to remain the fairest in the land.”