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Every so often some bright spark in Hollywood reckons on the tidy profit that can be made from bringing the classic fairytales up to date on the big screen

Every so often some bright spark in Hollywood reckons on the tidy profit that can be made from bringing the classic fairytales up to date on the big screen. The results are always pretty abysmal, but we can’t remember a cinema fairytale remake as misguided as this.

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By Tom Huddleston

Time Out Bahrain , 2 August 2012

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