Frozen

Frozen is Walt Disney Animation Studio's 53rd animated motion picture and keeping it old school as a fairy tale (based off of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen) musical and it also has a new school element too it by having a theme of girl power. Which is quite refreshing and for some reason we barely see in today's animated films with the most recent example being last year's highly underrated Brave. And while not as good as Brave, Frozen manages to proved an excellent mix of old and new and is easily the animated film of 2013 (which isn't saying alot).

Frozen is the story about a princess named Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) who was born with the power too create ice and snow. On the day of Elsa's coronation her powers go out of control and traps the kingdom in a internal winter (like the White Queen in Narnia but, Elsa doesn't mean to do this). Now her sister Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) has to go off and find Elsa too stop the winter with the help of a mountain man named Kristoff ( voiced by Jonathan Groff) and a happy scene stealing snowman from their childhood named Olaf ( voiced by Josh Gad).

Like I said in the plot summary, Olaf steal's the show and makes the film shine every time he's on screen and Disney's best comedy relief since the horse from Tangled. And Olaf has the second best musical number in the film "In Summer". With the best number being Elsa's big fuck it song "Let it go" which i'm pretty sure it's going too win the Oscar for Best Song. Other than those two song's, all the other are while not bad they're nothing to write home about when compared to the classic Disney soundtrack's like Beauty and the Beast or The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

While on the topic of problem's I have with Frozen, the takes a few twist and turns that I'm not spoil in this review. Out of the twists in the film one of them is a metaphor for the film main theme of girl power and different version of true love which was really smart and brilliant. The other twist on the other hand feel's like the writer pulled it out of her ass (screenplay by Jennifer Lee) at the last minute. While the meaning of the twist "people aren't as they seem" and I can get behind. The way it was presented almost reach's Iron Man 3 level of stupidity. Other than that I have no other problem's.

Everything else works for the most part. The animation is flat out flawless, the character's are charming, the comedy is witty, funny and not idiotic like some other recent animated film's. Frozen does proved an excellent mix of old and new and while it isn't 100% and not the level of Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King. Frozen is not only the best animated film of 2013, it's also one of the best overall films of 2013. On a side note, the short that play's in front of this "Get a Horse" is a work of genius.

Grade Rating: A-

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