My family is big on tradition at Christmas whether it be the way we make Christmas lunch, lay out our stockings or hand out boxing day presents. Some of the stranger traditions involve cartoons or films that we watch, one of those being the incredibly strange "Elmchanted Forest" which we watched by accident one Christmas morning only to find it being showed again the following year, from then on it became a regular event every Christmas morning. "A Snow White Christmas" was another one of those films which we stumbled upon by accident and watched for many years, at the time we only had it on VHS and eventually the tape couldn't hold out, it has been years since I sat down with my sisters and watched it but now things have changed, much like my discovery of the animated Grinch movie, I stumbled upon the film on DVD in Wilkinsons, I had not been looking for it and almost passed it by, instead I picked up 3 copies, one for me and one each for my sisters, it can become our tradition once again.

Naturally the evil queen sets out to stop Snow and her new friends in much the same way as she dealt with Snows mother, but who will wake Snow White junior from her slumber? You'll have to watch to find out

Erika Schiemer provides the voice for the young Snow White and is typical in the OTT, slightly annoying and whiney sense. Still she's bearable to listen to and delivers the lines well. Arte Johnson provides the voice for Brawny, one of the giants, and has just the right amount of gruffness and macho man attitude to match his character. Melendy Britt provides the voice for the wicked queen and does a good job giving the queen the smooth, rich voice you expect from a woman so beautiful but with the right level of sinister and evil in her tones. None of the voices stand out particularly above the others although a few are quite annoying including Snow White junior, Grunyon and Weeper the giant who cant stop crying.

The DVD-
The DVD has very basic functions of the "play and go" variety, because it's one of those, low budget, made for TV cartoons there are no special features or interactive areas, you are blessed with a scene selection menu but that's as fancy as it gets.

My Opinion-
The plot in the film is almost identical to the standard Snow White fairy tale with the wicked queen determined to be rid of Snow White and her friends, she employs many similar methods to kill the young princess and all because she wants to be "the fairest of them all" the main difference is that the years have passed and now we see her dealing with Snow White junior who is being helped by 7 fellows of a different height problem, instead of dwarves they're giants.

One of my favourite characters is the house proud and exceptionally camp Finicky the giant, clad in bright pink and busying himself with his duster and broom. He's one of the more original character concepts for the giants who also consist of one called Tiny who is actually the largest, one called Thinker who's very smart and the country bumpkin farmer Corny.

There seems little in the way of educational value in the movie, short of not opening the door to strangers and accepting differences in people, still it is enjoyable in its basic form, a Christmassy childs cartoon that can be sat and enjoyed by a family, just try not to expect too much from it, there's no comparison to the work of Disney.