Frozen

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My wife saw this before I did and she was really impressed. She kept walking around, professing how doggone cute it was, and so when she suggested a few nights later that we go, I agreed.

Frozen is loosely adapted from the Hans Christian Anderson story "The Snow Queen." It involves the story of two sisters, one of which has extraordinary powers to freeze everything. Although her power is almost beyond her control. As she is crowned Queen of her country, she ends up sending her nation into a deep-freeze, an eternal winter, that keeps getting colder.

Her younger sister sets out on a journey to find her, and along the way enlists the help of a young man and his faithful sidekick reindeer. So off they go, but before they get there they meet a little snowman, who is a stitch and is a great comic element to the rest of the story. The younger sister is convinced that her Snow Queen sister can reverse what's happened in their town and make it summer again.

There is a lot of music in this film and the songs are all pretty wonderful. I kept thinking that if I had to vote on best song in a film for the Oscar, I wouldn't know which one to pick.

I haven't been to a Disney animated film in quite awhile, but I must say I did enjoy this. The cast was made up of virtual unknowns to us regular folks, although they are probably big stars on Broadway. Great vocals.

This is a wonderful film that had my wife tearing up at the end the first time she saw it. I liked it very much too. If I were to do a top ten movies of 2013, this would be in my top ten.

I recommend this film, and doggone it, it is cute. And fun. And my only regret about it is that Walt Disney didn't live to see this. He would have loved it and all the computer generated stuff. And if there were any justice he would have....he'd only be in his 80's now.....

Grade: B+