Frozen: Good, but below of their own freezing forces

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2014)

The new Disney animation, " Frozen" , combines classic elements of the genre: princesses, prince, love , singing, adventure , humor and a great challenge .
Inspired by the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen , " The Snow Queen " , the movie is about the story of two sisters , raised in the same house, but separate . Anna , youngest, lived in every corner of the palace. Elsa, is older and owns a huge freezing power, was isolated from an early age by parents following a critical incident with her sister, who almost died frozen. After years of imprisonment, and the death of parents, Elsa's coronation as queen marks both the reunion of the sisters, as the beginning of the conflict such as the lack of power of the new queen . As a solution, Elsa search again their isolation , although Anna depart to their rescue .
" Frozen" is a visual spectacle of colors , designs and plans agreed. Some characterizations of environments and characters , even remember much " Tangled " (2010 ) . The soundtrack is very good , although there are exceptions to the singing of the characters in some scenes . The secondary characters as comic relief work very well and help the narrative . And the scene where Elsa builds his new refuge and assumes his powers is a flawless beauty , one of the most well done scenes of Disney animation , match making with the outcome of " Beauty and the Beast " (1991 ) .
The story , with a strong premise and well-balanced secondary resources, however, is not so well told . Despite the pro-activity of breaking with commonplace such as " courtly (idealized) love " Anna , or the fact that they are two princesses , princess and the main narrative is the brunette one, not the blonde one. Direction does not equates to the enormous job of writers (screenplay) to transform the "Snow Queen", of the fairy tale, in one of the first multi-dimensional characters of Disney princesses . The absence of building a relationship and more dialogs between the protagonists, added the option for the focus on Anna and their two (2 ) love interests, makes the movie shallow. There isn't a strong link between the sisters, after they grew up, harmonizing the outcome of the plot, or the discovery of Elsa then. Though the movie presents something less expected on the issue of " true love " , its appearance sounds forced. I get the impression that we have more involvement with the outcome because our memories of family and brothers, instead something that appears in the movie.
Finally, I refer again to the " Beauty and the Beast " for a parallel . Beast and Elsa are the counterpoint , the hero and anti-hero. But in the first case , we understand and engage with the changing monster prince, but the second , I was feeling : nice, OK , it's doable (believable). Good, with a lot of fun , but below of their own freezing forces .