Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Frozen




                                                                     


                        Life is full of comforts that we all know and love, it could be a cup of coffee on your way to work or the way something feels. To me growing up it was Disney cartoons, everything from “Peter Pan” to “Aladdin”. It was something about those movies that made everything better, they were funny and entertaining, I mean they had those great song and dance numbers. Then Pixar came out with “Toy Story” and everything changed. The images looked amazing, I mean they were three dimensional instead of that two dimensional stuff we were use to. Who needed a pencil and paper when you had a computer that could make everything look so much better? Disney tried to hold on to its way of storytelling, but the masses had spoken and it was out with the old and in with the new. Well lucky for us Disney rediscovered its magic starting in 2010 with “Tangled” and last year’s fantastic “Wreck-it-Ralph”. The streak continues with its newest film “Frozen”
                       Anna (Kristen Bell) is an optimist who for reasons unknown to her has been locked away with her family in her castle. It seems Anna’s sister Elsa (Idina Menzel) can make things freeze with a touch of her hands. After an accident that nearly killed Anna, The King decided it was best that Anna did not know of Elsa’s gift and to shelter his children from the outside world. When an accident robs Elsa and Anna of their parents, the shelter that they had built to protect their daughters also comes down. The day has come for Elsa’s coronation and with it the opening up of the castle’s gates. Anna is beside her self, for she has never seen so many people, but Elsa fears people finding out what she can do and shunning her. Elsa’s fears are soon realized after she gets angry and curses her home town into an endless winter. Elsa escapes into the mountains with Anna in pursuit. On the way she meets Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his trusty reindeer, and a snowman named Olaf (Josh Gad) who doesn’t quite know what the return of the heat will do to him. Together they try and talk Elsa into bringing back summer, and as per usual only an act of true love can make everything right again.
                      I am going to admit it, I like Disney Cartoons. Now I am not one of those fanatics or anything like that, I just enjoy them. Well maybe not all of them, just the really good ones. I was happy to see that Disney found their mojo again with “Tangled” and I got better news for you, with “Frozen” they got a sure-fire-hit.  “Frozen” is just pure fun, with all the Disney magic with Princesses and that lovable sidekick character. Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story “The Snow Queen”  “Frozen” adds a sense of warmth even as it is dead of winter on the screen. I feel like we are about to be in a new golden age for animated movies. You have Pixar being Pixar as well as the other new animated studios who seem to just put one gem after the other, and now Disney is back to doing what it does best. I can’t really recommend the 3-D, it doesn't add much to the film, it is however the focus of the short “Get a Horse!” before the movie starring characters that haven’t been seen on the big screen in decades.  So don’t skip out this holiday weekend on this one, after all you don’t want to be left out in the cold do you?


Brian Taylor



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