Animated action\ adventure
Idina Menzel: Elsa, the princess of Arendelle
Kristen Bell: her younger sister Anna
Santino Fontana: Prince Hans of the Southern Isles
Josh Gad: Olaf, a snowman
Jonathan Groff: ice seller Kristoff
Chris Williams: owner of Wandering Oaken’s Trading Post
REVIEW
The story of a fearless princess wanting to find her sister,
the one with magical power, is replete with musical numbers. In fact, the first
half hour or so plays like a Broadway musical with the story being told in lyrical
form. From that point the spoken word dominates and we get to see the loving
relationship between sisters.
In classic Disney fashion, the sidekick provides a lot of
the laughs. In this case it is Sven, Kristoff’s big-hearted reindeer. The silly
snowman Olaf steals the show every scene he is in, including the movie poster.
Technically the film is state of the art with exquisite
rendering of clothes and hair, beautiful wide screen images but the pedestrian
musical numbers are what holds me back to awarding this a five star rating.
Finally one movie-goer had this to say: “I loved the
message, about love and devotion, while the kids around me were laughing their
heads off at the animals and screeching whenever the snow monster appeared.”
That pretty well sums it up.
CLASSIFICATION
for some action, mild rude humour (really mild).
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