Disney Animated Musical Classic-in-the-Makings

Rating: 7/10 (7 December 2013)

I took my wife to see "Frozen", starring the voices of Kristen Bell- Gossip Girl-t.v., Pootie Tang; Idina Menzel-Glee-t.v., Rent; Jonathan Groff-Glee-t.v., Taking Woodstock and Josh Gad-The Internship, The Rocker.
This is a Disney animated classic-in-the-makings. It is based on the Hans Christian Andersen classic fairy tale, 'The Snow Queen', and it is a musical-lots of singing here. Kristen plays the younger sister to Idina, who is the next in line to become Queen, after her parents. As a child, Idina learns that she has magical ice powers that are triggered when she becomes emotional-she has an accident that nearly kills her sister, Kristen. When they get older, Idina has another incident that sends the whole kingdom into an eternal winter and decides to go into exile so that she does not do any more harm. Kristen goes after her and in the search, she meets Jonathan, an ice peddler and Josh, a talking snowman-everything talks in a Disney movie. The movie is very focused on the relationship between the two sisters. During the end credits, there is a special disclaimer for something Jonathan says during the movie- it's one of those, 'What he said was his own opinion and not management's" type of quotes. If you can keep your kids seated during the end credits, there is a scene at the very end-I know, it might be hard to do. I was the only person-including my wife-that saw it in our theater. It's rated "PG" for action and some rude humor and has a running time of 1 hour & 48 minutes. I would probably buy this one on Blu-Ray; the grandkids would like it.