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Frozen

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Grade: A

You can believe every last bit of hype you’ve heard about Frozen. It is the best Disney movie musical I’ve seen in years and years and years. The heroine is not your usual picture perfect, flawlessly beautiful cartoon leading lady, but a freckled, quirky, auburn-haired cutie – the kind I used to have crushes on as a teenager. I had a hard time believing a major mid-act twist that one particular character sprung on us; it muddied up some of this person’s previous intentions. But heck, 23 years ago, I saw a crab sing Under the Sea under the sea, and I didn’t question it, so maybe I can let this slide too. I loved every single song in Frozen, and I wanted more. Can this magical, beautiful, triumph of a film please go to the Broadway stage one day?

Grade: A

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  1. Wish – Film Reviews by Mark

    […] whose favorite phrase is “once upon a time.” That’s how Wish begins. We might have a new Frozen on our hands, here. Maybe not when it comes to quality, but in terms of potential to become the […]

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  2. Frozen II – Film Reviews by Mark

    […] It was about halfway through Frozen II when the realization officially hit home: this is an endearingly peculiar movie. It was at the point where the action takes a break for a Kristoff-led solo. In the midst of what had been a typical Disney score up until then, here comes a number that is in the style of an electric guitar and keyboard-bathed 80s power ballad – animated like a music video from that time period. This is the kind of random tangent you can expect from Frozen II. The dense, convoluted, and complicated plot will surely challenge the younger viewers. It is such a diversion from the first film that periodically, I almost forgot I was watching a sequel to Frozen. […]

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