Disney's Frozen - Grading and Discussion

[tomalak301]

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3776&p=.htm

Its worldwide tally has now passed $810 million. If it lives up to its potential in China (Feb. 5th) and Japan (March 15th), it should ultimately reach $1 billion.

Frozen seems likely to reach $1 billion dollars. It will end up almost tied with Toy Story 3. That's just incredible. It's great to see this movie get the reception that it deserves. Unless it bombs in China or Japan, but that seems highly unlikely.

Don't forget, Frozen is getting another kick with the release of the Sing Along version. I know that feels gimmicky, but this is a brilliant marketing strategy from Disney, especially with the Oscar nominations already announced.

By the way, I bought the soundtrack after I got home from seeing it and it's really the only thing I've been listening to all weekend. Well worth the purchase.

 

[tomalak301]

I don't think I've gravitated to a soundtrack anymore than I have with the Frozen Soundtrack. I loved it in the movie and actually bought it when I got home. Just curious, does anyone actually like the Demi Lovato version of "Let it Go"? It doesn't compare to Manzel, but really how could it. The more I listen to Demi's version the more I just find it a catchy pop song. Nothing wrong with that really. Perhaps it's just turning into a guilty pleasure.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

I think it's a nice variation of the original. There's nothing "wrong" with it and it's a very good performance in its own right ... it's just that Manzel's version is so damned powerful that a comparison is almost unfair.

 

[tomalak301]

I think it's a nice variation of the original. There's nothing "wrong" with it and it's a very good performance in its own right ... it's just that Manzel's version is so damned powerful that a comparison is almost unfair.

That's what I mean, and Disney has been doing this even during the Golden Era. They had the songs in the movies, but they also had Celine Dion doing Beauty and the Beast, or Peabo Bryson doing A Whole New World, or Elton John doing 3 songs from The Lion King. There is comparison, just songs that were done as radio friendly songs from the movies.

 

[JD]

Didn't Elton John already sing the songs in the movie?

 

[tomalak301]

Didn't Elton John already sing the songs in the movie?

During the credits. Same with Lovato.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Didn't Elton John already sing the songs in the movie?

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I think, because it's the character herself singing the song, Manzel's rendition - as the character's performer - becomes the definitive version.

Whereas, in the Lion King, for example, the song is kind of a "voice over" - which leaves Elton John's version more able to take on a life of its own.

 

[Dream]

I really like that Disney did two versions of "Let It Go" for Frozen, one in the movie and one during the credits. It reminded me how they did it all the time during the Disney Renaissance Films.

 

[Admiral2]

^ I'm a "grown man" and not afraid to admit that the "Let It Go" song/sequence chokes me up a bit. I've seen it twice with my daughter (and maybe that's why the song strikes a chord with me), but I wouldn't hesitate to see it by myself, either.

For me... "The First Time in Forever" reprise gets me. Couldn't say why. "Let It Go" sounds like a song of defiance.

I'm 29 and I choked up a couple of times, especially during "Let it Go".

The only time I really choked up was the first verse of "Do you want to build a snowman?" Little Anna looked so sad when she sang "Okay, Bye," it was heartbreaking.

"Let it Go," didn't choke me up at all. I was too busy looking at the ice palace like this and thinking Elsa was bad-ass from then through the rest of the movie.

I really like that Disney did two versions of "Let It Go" for Frozen, one in the movie and one during the credits. It reminded me how they did it all the time during the Disney Renaissance Films.

I'm just not crazy about Demi Lovato. From Camp Rock onward most of her "singing ability" stems from being able to scream on key. Her version is the first time i've ever heard her actually carry a note...and she doesn't carry them anywhere near as well as Idina Menzel.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I did cry during Let it Go on first viewing and cried again during Let it Go when we saw it a second time. So, it got to me.

 

[Maurice]

A friend of mine wrote this about the movie:

...you know a girl power movie has problems when your seven year old daughter turns to you and says, “Why doesn’t the mother ever say anything?”

A thought that came to my mind when Elsa built her snow fort was, "And how and what is she going to eat?"

 

[Greylock Crescent]

^ No mystery there. She's going to live off the carcasses of slaughtered sentient snowmen.

I'm planning on taking my daughter to a sing-along showing of the film sometime this weekend. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Dream]

A friend of mine wrote this about the movie:

...you know a girl power movie has problems when your seven year old daughter turns to you and says, “Why doesn’t the mother ever say anything?”

A thought that came to my mind when Elsa built her snow fort was, "And how and what is she going to eat?"

It's a common Disney trope that Disney parents are dead or dies at the start of the movie. That or the mother is dead/absent/evil while the father is the scatterbrained well meaning parent.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Here's a movie idea... Disney Parents and the Redshirts...

 

[Tom Hendricks]

^ No mystery there. She's going to live off the carcasses of slaughtered sentient snowmen.

I'm planning on taking my daughter to a sing-along showing of the film sometime this weekend. I'm looking forward to it.

We're on Long Island and went to the UA Westbury and saw the sing along version last night. It was a lot of fun, movie was mostly packed and a lot of kids and adults sang.

 

[Maurice]

A friend of mine wrote this about the movie:

...you know a girl power movie has problems when your seven year old daughter turns to you and says, “Why doesn’t the mother ever say anything?”

A thought that came to my mind when Elsa built her snow fort was, "And how and what is she going to eat?"

^ No mystery there. She's going to live off the carcasses of slaughtered sentient snowmen.

Woman cannot live on snow alone.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

A friend of mine wrote this about the movie:

...you know a girl power movie has problems when your seven year old daughter turns to you and says, “Why doesn’t the mother ever say anything?”

A thought that came to my mind when Elsa built her snow fort was, "And how and what is she going to eat?"

^ No mystery there. She's going to live off the carcasses of slaughtered sentient snowmen.

Woman cannot live on snow alone.

If she can conjure up that gorgeous dress... she can conjure food.

 

[js]

If she can conjure up that gorgeous dress... she can conjure food.

Frozen food.





C'mon - someone had to say it!

 

[Greylock Crescent]

^ No mystery there. She's going to live off the carcasses of slaughtered sentient snowmen.

I'm planning on taking my daughter to a sing-along showing of the film sometime this weekend. I'm looking forward to it.

We're on Long Island and went to the UA Westbury and saw the sing along version last night. It was a lot of fun, movie was mostly packed and a lot of kids and adults sang.

It's too bad the UA Westbury had such a late start time today. I went to the Raceway theaters over by Roosevelt Field this morning because they had a 10:30 showing ... but they had no sound for the film. It was a shame, because the theater was comfortably filled with parents and kids who were really looking forward to the show (different groups of kids spontaneously broke out into various renditions of "Let It Go" during the eerily silent previews and such - really cute).

But after thirty minutes past the start time with no sound ... I walked out accepted free passes and free small popcorn vouchers ... then went to a small, nearly empty theater in Great Neck.

It didn't have the same festive feeling as the Raceway did, but my daughter had a blast, though ... and that's what matters most. Sure, it helped the movie make more this weekend than last weekend, but it really was a neat experience for fans.

 

[Dream]

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2013&p=.htm

Frozen beats Despicable Me 2 to become the biggest animated film of 2013, and the third biggest movie right behind Catching Fire and Iron Man 3.

Congratulations to Disney for this unexpected breakout hit.