Frozen: Part V

[Musical Master]

1. What did you think of Anna and Elsa as characters?
2. What was the finale music like?
3. Did you like the art direction by Mike Giaimo?
4. What did you think of Hans? Is he a better villian than Mother Gothel?
5. What did you think of Kristen Anderson-Lopez's lyrics to the songs if were comparing her to say, Glenn Slater and Tim Rice?
6. How was the Kristoff/Anna part of Frozen?
7. How did you like the Let it Go sequence when she creates her Ice palace?
8. Can this movie feel comfortable with the Disney Renaissance films?
9. How was the climax scene in the movie?

1. Anna is adorable. She's modern, but still enjoyable. She's really feisty. Elsa was defientely the most memorable character. I don’t have a lot to say about Elsa. She is very interesting. You really feel bad for her and you do root for her. And when Anna sees her at the castle, Elsa gets very happy. You just love her. She is very relatable and caring. I’m very glad that they didn’t make her evil. Like I said, I was very skeptical of that. She’s definitely the new Ariel with the little girls if she gets added to the Princess lineup.

I'm really glad they didn't make Elsa evil. I was very skeptical about that, but if she was evil, you would not connect to her at all.

2. Yeah, it was the Vuelie reprise and a instrumental version of DYWTBAS with some "Oooooooooh"s.

3. It was great. You see the art in the credits.

4. The reveal was great. You really don't expect it. Because he is the perfect Disney prince: Smooth, romantic and brave. And then, you see him being evil. The whole audience gasped when he said, "If only someone loved you..." And honestly, my brother, who really liked Frozen BTW, thought Hans wasn't that evil.

5. They are defientely up there with the greats in my opinon! I'm doing a review on the music later.

6. It was cute. Like the recent movies, it's just bantering and Kristoff making fun of Anna/Hans, but they become pretty good friends later on. And the scene when Kristoff drops Anna off is heartbreaking. You can see the pain.

7. It was very beautiful with excellent animation of Elsa and beautiful visuals. They did the castle building very well. And the part when Elsa lets down her hair is so beautiful.

8. It was hard to tell with me, already knowing what happened. But, yeah: It fits so well! All i can say is, while Frozen is not obviously the greatest movie since Lion King, it is definitely up there with the classics. It has everything you want in a Disney movie: Intensity, the characters, a great plot, and great music. It’s definitely up there with the 90s. It did felt tike a 90s Disney movie. Is it better than the last 4 movies? It’s hard to tell right now. When I see it again with the rest of my family, maybe I can tell. If you really want a new Disney classic, see it! It would be a great, first Disney movie too for kids.

9. It was pretty good. It was defientely the best climax out of the recent Disney movies. But, I thought when Anna was frozen, it was very rushed! There was no big transformation. She just froze, Elsa cried, and everyone was like Awwww. Then, she thawed. And that's it.

My whole review is here: http://doyouwannabuildasnowman.tumblr.c ... r-spoilers

Thanks so much! I forgot to ask you two more questions. What did you think of Olaf and Sven, and what is the song Frozen Heart like?

[PrincessElsa]

Could I ask, disneyprincess11, if you had to choose a single, favorite shot (or scene, or moment, or frame) in the film, which would it be?

I know it's a bit of a kiddie question, but I'm curious.

[disneyprincess11]

Musical Master-They were absolutely show-stealers! The audience loved them. Sven was so cute! They worked the puppy thing really well with them. When he played with the snow at his anttelors, people cracked up, esepecially my brother. That shot was great.

Olaf was defientely one of the best characters. He says a lot of funny lines. Too much, but they all work. One line made me laugh REALLY loud. It was when they got near the palace and they had the spiky iciciles. Olaf went through one and he says, "Oh look! I've been impaled!" But after all of that, he had really sweet moments. like at the ice castle, when Olaf was like, "Remember me, Elsa?", he had the saddest look on his face. And my favorite Olaf moment is my favorite shot in the movie, which i will say:

And PrincessElsa, to answer your question:

My favorite shot is when Olaf is with Anna at the library, Olaf was stroking Anna to comfort her as he was talking about what love was. It really touched me. Idk why, but the stroking was just so sweet and it just showed that Olaf is more than funny. He really loves and cares about people. He is actually wise.

And I know you love Elsa and one of my favorite moments with her was:

When Elsa steps out to see Anna in the castle, WOW, JUST WOW! She looked SOOO SOOO BEAUTIFUL! I am not extargetting, I'm serious: She was WOW! I'm not going to give it away. Elsa was just stunning. Even Anna was like, Whoa!

[Musical Master]

Musical Master-They were absolutely show-stealers! The audience loved them. Sven was so cute! They worked the puppy thing really well with them. When he played with the snow at his anttelors, people cracked up, esepecially my brother. That shot was great.

Olaf was defientely one of the best characters. He says a lot of funny lines. Too much, but they all work. One line made me laugh REALLY loud. It was when they got near the palace and they had the spiky iciciles. Olaf went through one and he says, "Oh look! I've been impaled!" But after all of that, he had really sweet moments. like at the ice castle, when Olaf was like, "Remember me, Elsa?", he had the saddest look on his face. And my favorite Olaf moment is my favorite shot in the movie, which i will say:

And PrincessElsa, to answer your question:

My favorite shot is when Olaf is with Anna at the library, Olaf was stroking Anna to comfort her as he was talking about what love was. It really touched me. Idk why, but the stroking was just so sweet and it just showed that Olaf is more than funny. He really loves and cares about people. He is actually wise.

And I know you love Elsa and one of my favorite moments with her was:

When Elsa steps out to see Anna in the castle, WOW, JUST WOW! She looked SOOO SOOO BEAUTIFUL! I am not extargetting, I'm serious: She was WOW! I'm not going to give it away. Elsa was just stunning. Even Anna was like, Whoa!

I knew that Olaf was going to be a really good Disney Sidekick, I knew it! What about the song Frozen Heart, what was it like?

[PrincessElsa]

Thank you.

I'd still be curious to know your top Disney animated films list, from #1 to the point where Frozen makes its entry, but only if you feel so inclined. Some people like ranking things, others don't, which is totally cool.

[disneyprincess11]

MM-Oops! Yeah, Frozen Heart is DEFIENTELY based on that song from Dumbo. I immediately got that vibe. Fathom's Below didn't come until the middle. It also had a Norweign feel.

PrincessElsa-Frozen is defientely on my Top 10 list.

My Top 10:

1) Pocahontas (She's my great grandmother in real life )
2) Lion King
3) Sleeping Beauty
4) Beauty and the Beast
5) Little Mermaid
6) Frozen
7) Tangled
8. Lilo and Stitch
9) Princess & the Frog
10) Wreck-It Ralph

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
*Aladdin
*Lady and the Tramp
*Tarzan
*Peter Pan
*Mulan

[Musical Master]

MM-Oops! Yeah, Frozen Heart is DEFIENTELY based on that song from Dumbo. I immediately got that vibe. Fathom's Below didn't come until the middle. It also had a Norweign feel.

PrincessElsa-Frozen is defientely on my Top 10 list.

My Top 10:

1) Pocahontas (She's my great grandmother in real life )
2) Lion King
3) Sleeping Beauty
4) Beauty and the Beast
5) Little Mermaid
6) Frozen
7) Tangled
8. Lilo and Stitch
9) Princess & the Frog
10) Wreck-It Ralph

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
*Aladdin
*Lady and the Tramp
*Tarzan
*Peter Pan

Thanks for that. Wow! Frozen is up there on your list with the top 10 Disney films period and sharing that with Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid must be a sign that Disney has done a great job on this one!

I feel like Frozen will be a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better movie than the Disney films of the past decade, because Frozen has a lot going for it than Wreck it Ralph or Tangled (which is my third favorite film of the modern era of Disney after Walt's death, sharing the same spot but on a lower point scale than The Little Mermaid).

[disneyprincess11]

Thanks for that. Wow! Frozen is up there on your list with the top 10 Disney films period and sharing that with Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid must be a sign that Disney has done a great job on this one!

Well, that. And the fact that my favorite Broadway people are in it. A couple more views for Frozen and I will determine where it really is on my list. It's #6 for now. (Now, I have to get off from the laptop. I was writing my review all morning.)

[PrincessElsa]

That's a great list, disneyprincess11. Thank you for sharing.

Nice to see Sleeping Beauty earning such a high placement. I strongly concur.

[disneyprincess11]

No problem. SB was my childhood favorite!

BTW: This story is hilarious

http://choppi.tumblr.com/post/67075118456/olafquest2013

[disneyprincess11]

MORE RAVES WITH MORE 90S COMPARSIONS!

REVIEW: 'Frozen' mixes music and animation to create a soaring holiday delight

Despite it’s chilly title, “Frozen” is a bundle of winter warmth, a delightful and dazzling display of Disney animation at its finest.

Graced with the wonderful vocal talents of Kristin Bell and Idina Menzel, this is also the most successful Disney musical in years, featuring bright new songs from the husband and wife team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lope. Broadway, clear a stage, because this is coming.

Actually, the only complaint with the movie is that the singing fades toward the film’s end as story and action take over; still, as complaints go, it’s pretty minor.

A re-imagining of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale “The Snow Queen,” the film starts off with two young princesses (it is a Disney movie, after all). The older girl, Elsa (Menzel, when she grows up) has the magical ability to freeze things and produce ice and snow.

Unfortunately, this leads to an accident in which her sister Anna (Bell) is injured. So Elsa’s parents decide to isolate her — and indeed the whole family — so news of her power won’t spread. The sisters, once very close, are kept apart.

But after the girls’ parents perish and Elsa grows up, she must be crowned and made queen. At her coronation, Elsa loses control of her power and ends up freezing her entire kingdom. Afraid she has become a monster, Elsa flees to the mountains, where she builds herself an opulent castle of ice.

Some want to hunt Elsa down and destroy her, but Anna sets off to rescue her sister. Along the way she teams up with a socially graceless mountain man, Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer pal, Sven. And then (again, it’s a Disney movie) they also enlist a come-to-life, absurdly optimistic snowman named Olaf (Josh Gad).

Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, the film’s crisp, well-worth-it 3-D comes as no surprise — it’s a Disney film but it’s produced by Pixar honcho John Lasseter and the visuals are superb throughout. It also helps that the underlying themes here — isolation, fear of one’s own self, devotion, freedom and sacrifice — are reflected so beautifully in the songs.

Menzel and Bell duet about their sense of release in “For the First Time in Forever,” and then Menzel blows the roof off with the ecstatic freedom declaration “Let It Go.” And then there’s a wonderfully dizzy tune sung by a tribe of trolls (don’t ask, just enjoy) about everyone’s imperfections called “Fixer Upper.”

Just to make sure you know it’s Disney — as if there’d be a question — “Frozen” is preceded by a don’t-miss-it Mickey Mouse cartoon called “Get a Horse.” It’s an inventive mix of hand-drawn and computer animation and an absolute blast. Uncle Walt would be proud.

“Frozen” is a winter wonder of a family film, the sort of movie you hope for during the holiday season. Well, it’s here, go see it.

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‘Frozen’

GRADE: A-

Rated PG for some action and mild rude humor

Running time: 108 minutes

“Frozen” (PG) Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel play princesses trying to save a frozen kingdom in this delightful animated Disney musical that’s reminiscent of “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Broadway here it comes. (108 minutes) GRADE: A-

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Disney's 'Frozen' revives its classical animation roots

Exactly 24 years ago on Sunday, Walt Disney Studios released The Little Mermaid. This enchanting musical, a retelling of the Danish fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, helped to revive the tradition of classical Disney animation.

The phenomenal success of The Little Mermaid led to a new Golden Age for Disney animators, who soon produced Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules and Mulan. In addition to generating a healthy $211 million in worldwide box office, The Little Mermaid won two Oscars. One was awarded for Alan Menken's energetic score and the other was shared by composer Menken and his legendary lyricist, Howard Ashman, for Under the Sea, the best original song that year.

Even though animation techniques have changed dramatically since 1989, this month's forthcoming release of Frozen is poised to do the same thing as The Little Mermaid did, but on a smaller scale. Instead of needing to revive the animation department, Frozen is returning the animators to their classical roots, albeit through computer animation instead of hand-drawn techniques. Frozen, which debuts on Nov. 27, is the best pure fairytale that Walt Disney Studios has produced since Beauty and the Beast.

Not coincidentally, like The Little Mermaid, Frozen is also an enchanting musical. It is also a retelling of one of Andersen's fairytale stories (in this case of The Snow Queen, a story Andersen published in 1845). It is also in the wheelhouse of what Disney does best: Transform ancient myths and traditional stories into morality tales for new generations.

Frozen tells the story of two Nordic sisters, both of them princesses. One is a fun-loving girl blessed with a great spirit and a good heart, but no special powers. Her elder sister feels cursed because she was born with an extraordinary power she cannot control -- the ability to cast an ice spell on anything she touches. As a fantasy melodrama, Frozen deals with family, tragedy, love and the struggle to defeat the powers of darkness.

Co-directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee do employ liberal amounts of slapstick comedy to mask the pain. But Frozen -- just like The Little Mermaid did with its story of teenage rebellion -- does not shy away from the core values of Hans Christian Andersen's original.

With its ambitious storyline, Frozen will stand in stark contrast to most of the animations of 2013. Almost all of the major animation studios, including Disney and its partner Pixar, are routinely doing feature-length cartoons for kiddies. This year's fare includes Planes, Turbo, The Croods, Epic, Free Birds, the prequel Monsters University and the sequels Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Despicable Me 2.

Some of these are good movies that will earn Oscar noms for best animated feature -- and you just have to love those minions in the Despicable Me movies. But Frozen is a breed apart, for its classical fairytale roots and for what it means to the Disney tradition that began 76 years ago with the debut of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Dec. 21, 1937.

Walt Disney himself might have been impressed.

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[DancingCrab]

Yup, it's just like WOC.

The song was remixed with new orchestrations specifically for World of Color. Those are not the arrangements heard in the final film/soundtrack.

[Warm Regards]

Guys, heads up: iTunes has short previews of all the tracks on the Frozen Soundtrack. Yes, both discs.

[disneyprincess11]

The song was remixed with new orchestrations specifically for World of Color. Those are not the arrangements heard in the final film/soundtrack.

Oh ok, but the orchestrations have more than pianos. They have violins and drums too.

[taei]

Ok... I'm about to go cry cause the soundtrack comes out next week.. but WOW. The score sounds amazing.

And what a shame about Let it go... Oh well. I can live with it.

It's also nice to know that the Demo scores are actually used in the movie, like the olaf one.

And Kristen And Robert have a great voice...

I can't wait anymore!!!! Do you guys think Walmart will let me buy it at midnight, like movies?

[qindarka]

Ok... I'm about to go cry cause the soundtrack comes out next week.. but WOW. The score sounds amazing.

And what a shame about Let it go... Oh well. I can live with it.

It's also nice to know that the Demo scores are actually used in the movie, like the olaf one.

And Kristen And Robert have a great voice...

I can't wait anymore!!!! Do you guys think Walmart will let me buy it at midnight, like movies?

Can't you just buy it online?

[taei]

Can't you just buy it online?

I can. But I'm really weird when it comes to listening to music..

For example, I would listen to the song, but then when the part that I like is over, i keep repeating it.. constantly...

I've gone 10 minutes just rewinding the ending of Demi's Let it go.

Which brings me to why I'm getting the CD... Because it's what I'm going to be listing to in my car for the next few months. So having a physical copy works out for me. But man... seeing that "Mastered for iTunes" is tempting.. Must stay strong..

[disneyprincess11]

Yeah, at first, it's mostly piano, but then it's drums and violins.

[DancingCrab]

I was fine with the soundtrack version….but then I heard World of Color and now I want that.

[taei]

I was fine with the soundtrack version….but then I heard World of Color and now I want that.

Same here.. maybe if we keep asking them on twitter, we'll get it.