Movie Review – Frozen (2013)

I finally watched the movie Frozen recently and I loved it!

Release Date:  Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Running Time:  102 minutes

Genre:  Animation/Adventure/Comedy

Rating:  Rated PG for some action and mild rude humor

 

Directors: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee

Writers: 

• Jennifer Lee (Screenplay)
• Hans Christian Andersen (Inspired by the story “The Snow Queen” )
• Chris Buck
• Shane Morris
• Dean Wellins

Description:  Fearless optimist Princess Anna first meets Prince Hans and then teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his reindeer Sven in an epic journey,
encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious talking snowman named Olaf
in a race to find Anna’s sister Queen Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the
kingdom in eternal winter.

Jonathan Groff as Kristoff

 

 

Santino Fontana as Prince Hans

The animated Disney musical Frozen has the charm of The Little Mermaid (1989), the strong female lead of Beauty and the Beast (1991) and a musical score as amazing as the one in Aladdin (1992). 

I think the success of Frozen is that it is a musical, cast with Broadway
stars, two of which have had major parts in the TV show Glee (Jonathan
Groff as Jesse St. James and Idina Menzel as Rachel’s mother, Shelby). 

It’s
sad that the fact that actor John Travolta mispronounced Idina Menzel’s
name as “Adele Deezem” when he introduced her at this year’s Academy
Awards before she sang the hit song “Let It Go” from the movie
received almost more media attention than the premier of the movie!  The
song then won the award “Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion
Pictures, Original Song” and Frozen was named “Best Animated Feature Film of the Year”. 

I missed it in the movie theaters, finally watched the movie recently On Demand on my AT&T U-Verse and loved it!