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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