Disney Has Truly Shown They Still "Got It!"

Rating: 9/10 (6 December 2013)

Ever since the last 2D film "Home on Range", in which Disney was going to fully turn to CG for their own films outside of Pixar. Films like Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons, while somewhat enjoyable, lacked A lot compared to Disney films of the past. After bumps in the road with only Pixar and their overrated live action Disney channel show to turn in profit, along came Tangled. I thought it was advertised horribly in their first trailer, but it was interesting to see Disney finally return to their traditional "Princess" films while combining it with CG. When I finally saw it, I loved it all, songs, characters, story, animation, everything. After that, we got Wreck It Ralph, which was a massive step for Disney, especially with handling what was supposedly rumored to be a video game cameo clusterfudge, and turning it into a brilliant "Toy Story"ish tale with a very fresh and gratifying message in the end. And now we have the latest from Walt Disney studios: Frozen.
With films like Tangled and Wreck It Ralph impressing me enough to even consider them some of my favorite Disney films, surpassing even past 2D films in the 90's, I held high expectations for this film, and it did not disappoint.
I am going to get what little bad out of the way, because this film gave me very little to gripe about. First was the exploiting the comedy relief in the aspect that Tangled succeeded with, specifically the deer acting extremely dog-like, similar to Maximus (best Disney horse ever). Even so, this was our first Disney reindeer, and thus more memorable since we would have forgotten him if he was a horse. Secondly, the troll song number seemed very out of place. Though I liked the trolls design and their "roll" in the fate of both Elsa and Anna, their song was not exactly needed, but all the same not terrible (still got some chuckles out of me).
And the rest is fantastic! The story is extremely fresh, and though it really didn't follow the original source material, Disney took the story and did an excellent job using the concept and making their own wonderful storyline. It centers around two princesses, sisters named Elsa and Anna. While young an accident occurred when Anna got hurt by Elsa's ice magic. Terrified of hurting anybody ever again, Elsa closed herself off from the world and even her family. I don't want to spoil anything outside of that, but I will say that this tale takes some unexpected turns and has two pretty surprising twists towards the end! Point being, very well told story.
The songs, what can I say, some of the most beautiful I've heard in years from Disney musical animated features. Elsa's song "Let It Go" is one of the most gorgeous and cathartic of musical numbers I've ever heard, and I took listening to that track alone several times after seeing the film.
Everyone seemed to be split on the comedy relief Olaf, I read either he's hilarious, tolerable, or flat out annoying... I thought he was pretty funny, and he definitely has his hilarious moments as well. He's even a useful comedic character, he was never their for just giggles.
The animation is undeniably stunning, Disney took advantage of the fact they were going to be working with snow and ice, and it shines through. Again, along with Elsa's "Let It Go" song, her display of showing off her incredible and beautiful powers of ice is simply amazing to look at.
I can only hope Disney keeps this streak going, always aiming to make their films better and better, and taking new chances and twists whenever needed and doing it right to please their audience. Frozen is a film that takes new chances and succeeds in all the right places, and has very little to be disappointed with, if anything really. Memorable story and characters, gorgeous soundtrack and animation, I give Frozen a 9.5 out of 10! Keep it up Disney!