Very disappointing...

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

So, it's been a while since I've seen this movie so this might not be all that accurate, but who cares? I watched this movie when it first came out because while the first one wasn't all that brilliant Charlize Theron was a treasure and it seemed like she'd be in it a lot. And she did return. For the last ten minutes. Maybe twenty. It seemed as though the focus would be on the Ice Queen and Ravenna a lot more than it was at the end, most of the story was about the Huntsman and his wife, a story arc that was completely uninteresting. The wife had no real character to speak of and was relatively two-dimensional. You couldn't have completely taken out of the story, I'll admit that, because she did have to be there for at least a few plot points, but there were a lot of scenes where they just walked around and nothing really seemed to happen. It worked in LOTR. It didn't work in this movie. The Ice Queen was also pretty boring, with barely anything to do. The only thing interesting about this movie was every scene with Charlize Theron, which were preciously rare. The relationship between the Ice Queen and Ravenna, the twisted sisterhood would have been interesting to see developed, as well as Ravenna's transformation from a strange but human witch to a strange human/witch/mirror hybrid. The final action scene did have some interesting things but it was sad to see this powerful Ice Queen be defeated by her sister so quickly, only for a human to defeat her. He's a badass but you'd still think the other woman with powers would do more. It seemed wrong to have one of the most powerful characters suddenly take a back seat, espescially since I doubt this would've happened had it been an Ice King.Sadly, I'm probably still gonna watch it if there's ever another movie with Charlize Theron in this franchise.

The movies overall was good...but Kristen Stewart as Snow White, her presence was very much needed to improve the plot of the film. It didn't happen though. That was the disappointing portion of the movie. It a third sequel is made, please add the original cast members too along with the new ones.

According to legend, the reason why Rupert Sanders and Kristen Stewart were blackballed from "The Huntsman: Winter's War" was due to the esoteric affair they had during the 2012 film "Snow White and the Huntsman". I'll take it as a possibility. But if that's the case then why were all but two members of the Seven Dwarfs return and the other five didn't get called back? Granted their absentees didn't matter much, "The Huntsman: Winter's War" proves to be nothing more than a sequel that lacks fresh ideas or any creative merits that was never needed to be filmed and was just an excuse to carry it as a potential franchise. Here we go again.Chris Hemsworth returns as Eric the Huntsman and is once again on the brink of another epic battle with the evil Ravenna (Charlize Theron) and has brought along her younger sister Freya (Emily Blunt) to the scene. Freya has less baggage of wrath than her sister and has converted to evilness due to the loss of child by her killer ex-lover. Feeling that love is non-existent, Freya gather a platoon of highly-skilled fighters located in her ice castle. These fighters were once children who were once kidnapped and were trained to become deadly warriors to the point of being quite the untouchables once they reached adulthood. One of them is Eric (Hemsworth) the fighter who was instrumental in helping Snow White defeat Ravenna, The other is Sara (Jessica Chastain) another strong fighter whom Eric is in love with.Prior to his supposed death scene for breaking Freya's no-love compromise, Eric is thrown from a cliff but survives, but his lover sadly is placed to her death. The story then follows up from the events of the first installment as Eric was assigned from orders of the King by an ill Queen Snow White, to retrieve the magic mirror which was an integral part of Ravenna's pompous ways of exploiting her beauty was stolen. So Eric is joined by the comical dwarfs Nion (Nick Frost) and Gryff (Rob Brydon), they set out to find the mirror before Ravenna does and uses it for her evil purposes.While it does have a very in depth look at Eric's origins, 'The Huntsman: Winter's War" doesn't have much going for it plus the sole purpose this movie was made was to put a hole through our wallets and to start a potential franchise. There's no wide open expansion in their universe, the atmosphere is opaque and dreary though tone here seems more lighter than anticipated. Hemsworth was all right as the leading protagonist and does well with the material that was given to him. But his charisma is quite limited in a role that requires a vast amount of it and to make matters worse, he's forced into speaking in an unorthodox accent which he's intended to sound Scottish, but it weaves to sound closer to Irish on and off. Freya as a villainous is quite unconvincing as she's porttrayed as being just generally depressed over full-blown evil. Things start to heat up one Ravenna enters the fray by the the time the movie is half-over. By then it's too little too late and there's really not much to do to set the tone of this film. Even Theron's presence with her icy complexion and her flawless beauty could save this film.

Although this movie did not do well in the box office, I thought it was great. It was cool to see how the Evil Queen uses evil to give her sister some power, but it takes heartbreak in order for it to occur. The Winter Queen does not allow anyone in her kingdom to fall in love, because of this heartbreak, and in the end she finds out the truth and is devastated. I thought it was a great sequel, good cast, good plot, just overall good.