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Critics Consensus: Beautifully animated, smartly written, and stocked with singalong songs, Frozen adds another worthy entry to the Disney canon.
Critic Consensus: Beautifully animated, smartly written, and stocked with singalong songs, Frozen adds another worthy entry to the Disney canon.
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Disney has another hit in its repertoire with this heartfelt story of sisterly love and one of the few films released in 3-D this year that splendidly incorporates the technology into the plot line.
Frozen is a glacially stiff, perpetually unamusing animated musical with a talk-singing score that will leave one pining for the lifeless soundtrack to The Princess and the Frog.
Frozen reminds you how many animated films rely more on inside jokes. It's modern without being hip, earnest with being sappy.
Extravagant care is taken with minutiae, and the directors, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, whistle through the first twenty minutes of the plot with a controlled giddiness that would leave many live-action adventures staggering in their tracks.
If you thought there was only so much to be done with ice and snow as visual fields, think again along the lines of prismatic crystals, epic storms and fantastical structures built on water's gift for freezing itself into see-through art.
Frozen' has both showtunes and darkness, but most satisfying is a formula-defying finale that successfully subverts the fairytale status quo.
This is simply the best children's film in ages, a total frosty delight.
It's hard to say whether the world of Frozen will compare with Disney's other long-celebrated fairy tales as the years roll on, but for this season, parents and children will probably be happy to add the new film to their resumes.
Even if you are not into fairy-tales, you'll love this one for it's unpredictable and thus keeps you engaged throughout.
Frozen is Disney's best animated movie since their second golden age in the early 1990's and is an instant classic.
... Frozen, the newest Disney contribution directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, falls a bit short.
The songs aren't good enough to stick in your head and the characters aren't good enough to be iconic, but Frozen is pleasant enough. May it have a long life on ABC Family, clogging up your weekend TV holiday schedule for years to come.
Everyone's children's favorite film works for grown-ups too. Mostly. There is a lot of singing and some of the songs are great, others feel a tad forced, though. The plot is surprisingly simplistic, but at least offers a surprise or two. The characters are likable enough and especially the snow man brings the best laughs. It's the artwork, scenery and landscapes that make this film's special atmosphere. Can't go wrong to have a nice afternoon with the kids with this.
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A visually stunning Disney animation with wonderful songs and a story that boldly subverts the conventions of fairy tales by having no women in need of princes to rescue them - even though it could have done without a shocking, cliched revelation about a certain character in the last act.
It took me a while to get into this one and whilst the story is no masterpiece, musicals rarely are and it's actually a damned fine musical. It ain't the jazzy Disney of the mid 20th C. that we grew up on and not all songs work but those that do really make the movie. That and the catchphrases...
If its final scene had ended with one more musical reprise and not with such a typical fade-out conclusion, 'Frozen' would've cemented its place in my top 3 favourites of 2013. But hey, it's the movie that completed the rejuvenation of Walt Disney Animation Studios, and for that I'm eternally thankful.
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