Last night, I finally saw Disney's Frozen. Yes, I do realize with the current polar vortex, that my movie choice was quite appropriate. Whatever. I had to wait for the boy to get back from LA before I went and saw it; we wanted to see it together :3
My opinion? Splendid.
To be honest, I was worried when I first saw the trailer. I knew at the time that Idina was going to be in it, about I was excited. However, the trailer? Well, it highlighted the goofier side more. It was all I was hoping it wouldn't be. It looked like Tangled: Now with Ice! I knew enough about the movie to know that Elsa and Anna were sisters, and that intrigued me. And knowing the source material that inspired the movie (which, in case you didn't know, is Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"), I wanted to know more how that translated into this adaptation.
What won me over in the end to go see it was the clip of Idina as Elsa, singing "Let It Go". It reminded me of Wicked's powerful "Defying Gravity" in so many ways--theme, style, actual singer (haha). I also remembered that I hadn't like the idea of Tangled at first, mainly because i was sad at the move to more CGI and the "boyification" to make it more marketable. Oh, and because Kristin Chenoweth was no longer in the movie. But after I saw Tangled one night when babysitting Annie? Well, I went to Wal-Mart, bought the damn thing for myself, and brought it to Brett's apartment. I then insisted he see it then. (It's kind of a thing with us--watching the new Disney films together.) And we watched it then--him for the first time, me for the second in a six hour span.
So, Frozen was pretty damn awesome. It did have some of the slapstick that the trailed had focused on, but the movie spread it out more, didn't overload it (like another movie company.... *coughcough* Dreamworks *coughcough*). The music is wonderfully done, set up more like a Broadway show than a movie. Which makes sense, since Robert Lopez, one of the musics writers, has primarily worked on Broadway before this. The score, by Christophe Beck, is splendid.
And while Elsa is awesome in her own way, I really identified with Anna, in a lot of ways. After the movie, I mentioned this to Brett, and he agreed that her mannerisms and way of speaking correlated with my own. There's also the younger sister aspect that I totally get.
Which brings me to the main reason I loved it--yes, there's funny bits, and there's romance, but it's really a story about sisters, about familial connections. I'm glad that Disney is going in that direction of relationships in general, not focusing on just the love connections, you know?
The only issue I had with it is that for the soundtrack, they had Demi Lovato do the pop cover. It's alright, I guess. I just am confused, when you have one of the greatest Broadway stars of the last 20 years on your casting roll and who sings the original movie version, why don't you just have her do a pop cover, and be done with it? It's just strange and kind of ridiculous.
All around, good movie to check out, and I highly recommend it. Go see it if you haven't.
My opinion? Splendid.
To be honest, I was worried when I first saw the trailer. I knew at the time that Idina was going to be in it, about I was excited. However, the trailer? Well, it highlighted the goofier side more. It was all I was hoping it wouldn't be. It looked like Tangled: Now with Ice! I knew enough about the movie to know that Elsa and Anna were sisters, and that intrigued me. And knowing the source material that inspired the movie (which, in case you didn't know, is Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"), I wanted to know more how that translated into this adaptation.
What won me over in the end to go see it was the clip of Idina as Elsa, singing "Let It Go". It reminded me of Wicked's powerful "Defying Gravity" in so many ways--theme, style, actual singer (haha). I also remembered that I hadn't like the idea of Tangled at first, mainly because i was sad at the move to more CGI and the "boyification" to make it more marketable. Oh, and because Kristin Chenoweth was no longer in the movie. But after I saw Tangled one night when babysitting Annie? Well, I went to Wal-Mart, bought the damn thing for myself, and brought it to Brett's apartment. I then insisted he see it then. (It's kind of a thing with us--watching the new Disney films together.) And we watched it then--him for the first time, me for the second in a six hour span.
So, Frozen was pretty damn awesome. It did have some of the slapstick that the trailed had focused on, but the movie spread it out more, didn't overload it (like another movie company.... *coughcough* Dreamworks *coughcough*). The music is wonderfully done, set up more like a Broadway show than a movie. Which makes sense, since Robert Lopez, one of the musics writers, has primarily worked on Broadway before this. The score, by Christophe Beck, is splendid.
And while Elsa is awesome in her own way, I really identified with Anna, in a lot of ways. After the movie, I mentioned this to Brett, and he agreed that her mannerisms and way of speaking correlated with my own. There's also the younger sister aspect that I totally get.
Which brings me to the main reason I loved it--yes, there's funny bits, and there's romance, but it's really a story about sisters, about familial connections. I'm glad that Disney is going in that direction of relationships in general, not focusing on just the love connections, you know?
The only issue I had with it is that for the soundtrack, they had Demi Lovato do the pop cover. It's alright, I guess. I just am confused, when you have one of the greatest Broadway stars of the last 20 years on your casting roll and who sings the original movie version, why don't you just have her do a pop cover, and be done with it? It's just strange and kind of ridiculous.
All around, good movie to check out, and I highly recommend it. Go see it if you haven't.