Disney has another hit in its repertoire with this heartfelt story of sisterly love and one of the few films released in 3-D this year that splendidly incorporates the technology into the plot line.
Frozen
Only the act of true love will thaw a frozen heart.
2013 · 1h 42m · PG
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Chris Buck
,
Jennifer Lee
Overview
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
Director and cast
- Chris Buck Director
- Jennifer Lee Director
- Idina Menzel as Elsa (voice)
- Kristen Bell as Anna (voice)
- Jonathan Groff as Kristoff (voice)
- Josh Gad as Olaf (voice)
- Livvy Stubenrauch as Young Anna (voice)
- Santino Fontana as Hans (voice)
- Eva Bella as Young Elsa (voice)
- Alan Tudyk as Duke (voice)
- Stephen J. Anderson as Kai (voice) (as Stephen John Anderson)
- Maia Wilson as Bulda (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Frozen reminds you how many animated films rely more on inside jokes. It's modern without being hip, earnest with being sappy.
Extravagant care is taken with minutiae, and the directors, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, whistle through the first twenty minutes of the plot with a controlled giddiness that would leave many live-action adventures staggering in their tracks.
If you thought there was only so much to be done with ice and snow as visual fields, think again along the lines of prismatic crystals, epic storms and fantastical structures built on water's gift for freezing itself into see-through art.
Frozen' has both showtunes and darkness, but most satisfying is a formula-defying finale that successfully subverts the fairytale status quo.
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