Magnificent.

Rating: 9/10 (28 December 2013)

FROZEN is the new "broadway' musical now as a Disney presentation in spectacular 3D CGI gloss. If this is the new way to get musicals back on movie screens then I am all for it. FROZEN is visually breathtaking and very very funny, with a great script and overwhelming visual scenes, one after the other. FROZEN is also a very clever and throughly elaborate way to ensure kids get to enjoy musical theater and fairytale delight as new movie cineplex fun. Most kids movies present such goony characters and lame product placement cynicism but FROZEN is pitched as clearly in tone and style as a $150 ticket stage show on 44th street NY. Everyone in the cinema today relished every part of the film and when the snowman showstopper musical sequence finished ("What'd I do in Summer"), there was enthusiastic applause. Possibly over-all 10 minutes too long and with two songs early on too many FROZEN visually is a sensation and astonishing in key scenes. I can see the stage show coming in 5 years time. But do not hesitate now to take kids of all ages and make this the 3D animated musical you decide to spend the extra dollars on. The male characters work in context and equally match the spunky young princess fruitiness. However, it's Olaf the snowman who steals the show and with what might be an Oscar winning song, one Oscar of about 6 that I expect to see FROZEN win. If FROZEN is now a Disney 'formula' for quality family musicals then they have got it right. And whatever you do do NOT come late, there is a screamingly funny cartoon ahead of the feature called GET A HORSE which combines hologram and 3D.