I judge books by their covers and movies by their previews.<\/p>\n
Going in to see Frozen<\/em>, I was leery. Where was there room for a talking snowman in my beloved fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson? Why was a boy saving the day in my girl power tale? Based on the previews, I expected nothing more from the film than a comedic snowman and a boy saves the princess and they live happily ever after love story that only Disney can achieve.<\/p>\n I wasn\u2019t sure if I was going to actually see the movie in the theaters.<\/p>\n But then it released and everywhere I turned I heard nothing but rave reviews. People whose opinions I trusted lauded the movie.<\/p>\n So I gave it a chance.<\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t see Frozen yet, what are you waiting for? Go. Shoo. Stop reading this immediately and get to the theater. I\u2019ll be here when you come back.<\/p>\n Okay, just in case any of you did not take my advice to go watch it, I\u2019ll try to keep this review spoiler free.<\/p>\n The musical score was excellent. The characters burst into song from one minute to the next and the songs told a story. A beautiful story. Idina Menzel killed it as the voice of Elsa. (Seriously, can she sing every part ever? Please?) Kristen Bell did a remarkable job as the voice of Anna.<\/p>\n After watching the movie, seek out some of the behind the scenes footage, watching the two women play off of each other while recording is pretty awesome.<\/p>\n Even beyond the musical numbers, Frozen<\/em> was spot on. There was character growth. And it was a love story\u2026 but the romantic love interests paled next to the true message of the story\u2014love for family and the bond of sisterhood.<\/p>\n I would say more, but it would risk spoiling the movie.<\/p>\n Instead. Go see it. And then bask in the glorious message of the film.<\/p>\n Because even though it veered significantly from Hans Christian Anderson\u2019s tale\u2026 it\u2019s still a beautifully told story and worth watching again and again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I judge books by their covers and movies by their previews. Going in to see Frozen, I was leery. Where was there room for a talking snowman in my beloved fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson? Why was a boy saving the day in my girl power tale? Based on the previews, I expected nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[295,445,535,603,714],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-disney","tag-frozen","tag-idina-menzel","tag-kristen-bell","tag-movie-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}