The "Snow White" live-action remake, in theaters Friday, livens up the original with new songs and new lyrics for the classics.

In this pessimistic, cynical world of ours it's easy to get hung up on the negative, so let's try to be positive. There's nothing wrong with Disney's live-action remake of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" that couldn't be fixed by making it 26 minutes shorter,

Given the rapacious rate of remakes in modern Hollywood, it’s remarkable that it’s taken nearly 90 years for Disney to return to “Snow White.” It means going back to the very foundation of the Mouse House. The 1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was Disney’s first animated feature; its grosses paid for the studio’s Burbank lot.