Disney's Frozen - Grading and Discussion

[intrinsical]

Actually, I think that Frozen is a good (I haven't seen it yet, am only judging what I've seen in the video posted here) magical mutant person story, and nothing else.

Funny you should mention that...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ThvBNZdGcQ[/yt]

 

[Unicron]

I haven't seen Frozen, but that was pretty good.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Jeremy Jordan, from Broadway's Newsies and Bonnie and Clyde, sang Let it Go at the Miscast Gala.

I just downloaded the video and made a MP3 of it, thanks for the link.

Actually, I think that Frozen is a good (I haven't seen it yet, am only judging what I've seen in the video posted here) magical mutant person story, and nothing else.

Funny you should mention that...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ThvBNZdGcQ[/yt]

Good one, you got me.

 

[Admiral2]

"We are cutting ice."

That was hilarious!

 

[Dream]

Frozen merchandise shortage is a big problem for parents

The shortage comes as a result of Disney underestimating the demand for Frozen toys, after its last few films, Brave, Tangled and The Princess and the Frog, failed to make much of a dent at the box office. Frozen, for whatever reason, does not have the same problem, and stores are struggling to keep up with the demand.

But wait there's more! To what lengths are desperate parents going to get the Frozen toys their children covet so highly? Maternity-wear designer Rosie Pope tells the Post that a friend of hers—who works at Disney even—paid $1,200 for an Elsa doll on eBay, after promising her daughter a Frozen-themed birthday party. Shannon Russo-Pollack says she went to 42 stores while at Walt Disney World, looking for an Elsa dress. Russo-Pollack's husband eventually resorted to Amazon, where he dropped $830 on Frozen merch.

Donna Ladd told the Post that she got lucky and found an Olaf toy while on a trip to Italy, but that her son isn't allowed to leave the house with it for fear that other crazed mothers will steal it. "Anywhere I was, at the Met, at the supermarket, all the mothers were going crazy screaming, 'Oh my God, I can’t believe you got it!'" she told the paper. "They were asking me if they could borrow the doll for a few days ... I feel like I had a bag no one else could get." Some mothers are even pulling the my-kid-is-sick card:

"People have gotten into physical fights in the morning," says one Disney Store employee, who asked not to be named.

Frozen: Inside Disney's billion-dollar social media hit

In 2011, Disney asked husband and wife songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez – the maestro behind Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon – to work on their new animation, Frozen. Very loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, it would tell the tale of two orphaned princesses: Anna, a beautiful, loving optimist, and Elsa, her jealous, blue-skinned, spiky-haired villain of a sister, who uses her icy powers to launch a vicious attack on the kingdom, accompanied by an army of evil snowmen.

But the Lopezes saw things differently. To them, Elsa was simply a scared girl struggling to control and come to terms with her gift. So when they came to write her big number Let it Go, they decided to create what Anderson-Lopez has described as “an anthem that said, ‘Screw fear and shame, be yourself, be powerful.’”

“The minute we heard the song for the first time,” says Jennifer Lee, the film’s co-director and screenwriter, “I knew that I had to rewrite the whole movie.”

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^I was right! I knew they had to have worked on Avenue Q!!

 

[JD]

Thanks for sharing the HISHE, those are always great.

 

[Corran Horn]

Went to the local Disney Store (Chicago surburbs) to get an Anna ragdoll for my niece for Easter. The castmember said the only Frozen item they have in the ENTIRE STORE was xs pajamas. That's how it is company-wide, she said.

(Plenty of Sofia the First stuff)

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Two guys do a funny review of the movie:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQLhXhf5ZC8&feature=youtu.be[/yt]

 

[Dream]

'Frozen' Spends 10th Week at No. 1 On Billboard 200; Sales Climb Past 2 Million

The unstoppable soundtrack to Disney's "Frozen" continues its run atop the Billboard 200 as it clocks a 10th nonconsecutive week at No. 1. The set sold 133,000 copies in the week ending April 13, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's down 11 percent compared with the previous frame, when it sold 149,000 at No. 1.

The album’s cumulative sales also climb past the 2 million mark, as its additional 133,000 copies bring its to-date sum to 2.1 million.

"Frozen" is now one of just 11 albums to have spent at least 10 weeks at No. 1 since the chart started using SoundScan's point-of-sale data on May 25, 1991. Four of those 11 albums also happen to be soundtracks: “Frozen,” Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard" (20 weeks at No. 1), "Titanic" (16 weeks) and "The Lion King" (10 weeks).

In addition, "Frozen" now ties "The Lion King" for the most weeks at No. 1 for an animated film soundtrack.

The Frozen soundtrack has hit double platinum now.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

My niece sang along with Idina to "Let It Go" which was playing on the radio this morning.

 

[Admiral2]

At this point somebody should start organizing "The Church of Elsa." We'd give Scientology a run for its money.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Better than the Church of the Fonz...

 

[Dream]

At this point somebody should start organizing "The Church of Elsa." We'd give Scientology a run for its money.

I think it has become more of a cult now.

 

[Kemaiku]

Anna really deserves more attention than she gets though, she was a great character as well.

 

[Admiral2]

^^True, but let's face it...her big sister's a pretty blond who brings snowmen to life and makes ice castles by gesturing and stomping her feet. No amount of niceness and pluckiness is competing with that.

At this point somebody should start organizing "The Church of Elsa." We'd give Scientology a run for its money.

I think it has become more of a cult now.

But "church" sounds nicer, and it would be tax exempt!

 

[Dream]

Frozen passed Transformers 3 and Return of the King to become the sixth biggest movie worldwide

Big thanks to Japan!

The 400 million domestic milestone should be reached by next weekend. Captain America is doing great too!

 

[Dream]

Anna really deserves more attention than she gets though, she was a great character as well.

All the Anna dolls have been sold out in all the stores around me for weeks now. To be fair, many girls probably settled for her since Elsa has always been nearly impossible to find.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

My mom got my niece an Elsa doll for Easter and I was like "Do you realize that you have gold right there?" lol.

 

[Dream]

Frozen has crossed $400 million at the domestic box office

As you look at that top-grossers list, you don’t find very many female-centric pictures. You’ve got the Leonardio DiCaprio/Kate Winslet-starring Titanic, the action-centric The Hunger Games, and male-skewing films that played well to both genders (pretty much anything that goes that high needs gender-neutral appeal). Frozen is the only unapologetic “chick flick” on the $400m list that had no male heartthrob, mass destruction, or hard action to sell. It is a film not just about a lone woman in a (stereotypically) male-centric genre (war, action, etc.), but about women and with little to entice the male gender beyond its quality.

So yes, Frozen should be celebrated as a box office milestone, both in terms of its final gross, in terms of how it made its money (slowly, fueled by word of mouth), and how it bucked conventional wisdom (it’s an unapologetically female-centric fairy tale). It’s proven yet again that a female-centric film can reach just as high on the blockbuster scale as a conventionally male-centric one.

Frozen has done it!