Mirror, mirror on the wall, what is the scariest remake of all?

It might just be “Snow White,” now playing at AMC Manteca 16.

It’s been panned on the left and right and seemingly everywhere in between with most of the tomatoes tossed at the new and old story lines.

It even has the actress playing the two main female roles — Rachel Ziegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen — publicly staking our opposite sides on the Hamas-Israel War.

Spoiler alert: Gadot is a former Miss Israel who served in the country’s Defense Forces and is arguably one of Hollywood’s most outspoken supporters of Israel.

Meanwhile, Ziegler ended her media post attached to the first release of the Snow White trailer with “always remember, free Palestine.”

Yes, it is a small world after all.

And given the amount of verbiage tossed at Disney’s remake of the classic, it’s a small world in more than one way.

►Palestinian groups have called for a boycott because Gadot is in the movie.

►Some actors who happen to be dwarfs slam the film because it portrays stereotypes.

►Other actors who happen to be dwarfs slam the film because Disney decided to be “sensitive” and not cast real dwarfs but instead used computer generated imagery.

►Some screamed cultural appropriation, given Ziegler is a Latina actress cast in the role of “who is the fairest of all.”

►The story line was tweaked as the 1937 animated classic had a Snow White character that was supposedly “spineless” when it came to interaction with Prince Charming.

The remake prompted some to equate the original Prince Charming — who spoke a half dozen times in the original — to being a stalker.

►Ziegler also has been a strident critic of Trump and his supporters hoping they “never know peace” and signed off a now-deleted social media post regarding the second Trump presidency, “I will love through these four years as best as I can, f*** Donald Trump.”

Interesting take on love by someone who portrays a character in a fairytale love story.

Actually, when she signed on for the remake, Ziegler made it clear the original was “extremely outdated.”

No argument there.

And she did receive a bunch of crap that was uncalled for on social media for being a Latina playing Snow White that she responded to in a very unladylike way in the fantasy world created in 1937, but fairly close to what goes for acceptable language on social media today.

In defense of Ziegler, one shouldn’t be subjected to garbage like that even if you are an actress in the public spotlight.

But she didn’t do Disney, who paid her $1 million, any favors.

Even Ziegler’s salary for Disney is in the crosshairs of wokeness.

Gadot, a more well-established actress, earned $3 million.

There’s an argument swirling around the cesspool known as the Internet that Ziegler was shortchanged because of ethnicity and/or age given she had the more “prominent” role.

As messy as Snow White and the Evil Queen might be, the flap over using computer generated imagery instead of using real dwarf actors was even more intense.

Disney contended the special effects were so good, that the computer generated dwarfs didn’t look out of sorts next to human actors.

That set off dwarf actors claiming that Disney, for all of its politically correct posturing, missed an educational opportunity to shed light on dwarfism.

After all, the argument goes, Disney has no problem casting a Latina as Snow White.

Then there was the original storyline that Grumpy, Sneezy, Happy, Dopey, Sleepy, Bashful, and Doc lived in a cave.

Little wonder the film’s debut this past weekend was queued up as the latest installment in the culture wars.

One wonders what Walt Disney would have thought of all of this?

Especially since the original “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” saved Disney that was teetering on insolvency when it was released almost a decade after the release of Mickey Mouse’s debut in Steamboat Willie.

The original animated version cost a staggering $1.5 million to make it the 12th highest grossing film of all time when adjusted of inflation at $2.49 billion according to IMDb (Internet Movie Database).

The new version cost Disney more than $250 million to produce.

The projection was for the remake to rack in $80 million this past weekend in the  United States.

It was more like $43 million with the worldwide total coming in at $87 million.

Given “The Lion King” remake in 2019 did $191 million the first weekend and the “Beauty and the Beast” redo $179 million in 2017, the Snow White franchise may no longer be the greatest Disney classic of all time.

Perhaps to put things in prospective is the 88 year difference.

In 1937, the United States was still in the tight grip of the Great Depression.

People were too busy trying to survive, instead of being people of leisure who able to put their two cents in on every issue of the day while spewing bile at strangers who disagreed with them.

By comparison, we collectively have it pretty good today in terms of standard of living, whether we’re straight, gay, transgender, poor, rich, working class, middle class, Democrat, Republican or independent.

We can, and do, devote excessive energy to what might have been deemed frivolous pursuits back in 1937 as well as lashing out at anything that doesn’t align with our narrow view of the world.

Maybe Disney might try their luck at producing an escapist movie for today’s world much like Snow White was for the Great Depression Era.

They could re-do Disney classics by tweaking the names and plots to try to play both sides of the Great Woke Divide.

A few suggestions:

►“Honey, I Shrunk Congress”

►“The Lying King”

►“The Shaggy DOGE”

►“Alice in Congressland”

►“Lady and the Trump”

►“Babes in DCland.”

►“The Demo-cats”

►“Honey, I Shrunk the Government”

Or they could go all out and do an original script about men and women from opposite political parties going to Washington, D.C., on a mission to improve the standard of living of all Americans, reduce the footprint of government, and find ways to live in peace and harmony with others that think differently and have different values.

The movie’s name?

Fantasia.

This column is the opinion of editor, Dennis Wyatt, and does not necessarily represent the opinions of The Bulletin or 209 Multimedia. He can be reached at dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com