Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White is finally out in theaters after much controversy and anticipation. Audiences are having a lot of thoughts, with the film, which reportedly cost over $200 million to make, has already had a tepid start, with a lower-than-expected opening weekend and many decrying it as “woke” or a “mess.” One figure offering his thoughts on the film is pastor Greg Laurie, who wrote on his blog that the film is missing the message of the original.

After addressing the controversy of the film’s star, Rachel Zegler, mocking the 1937 original version, he said Zegler missed the point. “Apparently, Zegler missed the entire point of this fairy tale. Snow White is a moral fable. It is a story about good and evil, a tale about a vain queen so obsessed with her own beauty and status that she is willing to murder an innocent young girl just to remain the ‘fairest in the land,’” he wrote. The film has faced criticism for replacing the character of the prince with a thief and focusing more on Snow White’s desire to be a ruler than her quest for true love. “[Zegler] refused to sing ‘Someday My Prince Will Come,’ the signature song of the classic film, dismissing it as ‘weird.’ Instead, she has a new song: ‘Waiting on a Wish,’ a song about female empowerment and self-sufficiency. Because, dare we acknowledge the timeless human desire for love, redemption, and rescue?” asked Laurie.

He then connected the story of Snow White to the Bible. “The story told in Snow White is basically the story we read in the Bible about Lucifer, a once high-ranking powerful angel who wanted to take the place of God. Like the evil queen, Lucifer’s problem was that he was in love with his own image. He wanted to be in the place of God,” wrote Laurie. “Snow White ends with evil defeated, the queen and all of her vanity defeated, and Snow White resurrected from her death-like sleep, saved by her prince. She sings ‘Someday My Prince Will Come,’ which is not all that different from a Christian worldview.” However, as a self-described Disney fan, Laurie stated that he hoped the company can find its way back to its roots.

Snow White is just one of the recently remade beloved classics that has sought to incorporate modern concepts rather than the messaging of the original. The film Lightyear sought to capture audiences who loved the character from the colossally successful Toy Story franchise. Yet that film flopped at the box office, with many citing a modern LGBTQ storyline being added. Laurie, however, offered a solution to Disney’s struggles. “The best thing Disney can do is return to the roots of its founder, to the stories that celebrate family, virtue, and faith.”