Frozen
 

NON-SPOILER ALERT: I'm not going to spoil anything beyond the first 20 minutes of the movie or so.

The first thing I have to say about Frozen is that the promotional campaign SUCKED. The ads and trailers give you ABSOLUTELY no idea what the movie is actually ABOUT, make the movie seem shallow and mediocre, and could even be considered a bit misleading since they put the focus on things that actually prove to be fairly minor. (For example, Olaf the snowman is NOT a meaningless, shallow comic relief character; he's actually important to the plot, not annoying at all, and he sees character development through the course of the movie.) From the trailers alone you wouldn't even know the movie is a musical in the tradition of Beauty and the Beast rather than just having a couple musical numbers thrown in like Tangled did.

In fact, the movie is actually pretty deep, with some really surprising twists that toy with your expectations of cliches.

Since the ads don't actually TELL you what the movie is about... and in fact the only plot information I can find about the movie outside of the movie itself is http://movies.disney.com/frozen/story ... I'll give a bit more information.

Elsa and Anna are sisters, princesses of Arendelle. Elsa is the older sister, and heir to the throne; she was also born with ice magic that she struggles to keep under control. An accident claims the lives of their parents, and when Elsa comes of age she is crowned queen. The emotional stress on the day of coronation makes her lose control of her power and she flees the castle to seek solitude, but accidentally freezes the entire kingdom in the process. Anna sets out to find Elsa to get her help in restoring summer, and to bring her home.

By the way: The soundtrack is AMAZING.

WOAH. Ok Coda, I want to see it as well, but that's because I knew the story that Frozen was written from... But thanks for letting me know for sure that it was amazingly good.

All ive seen of the movie is the promotional poster where its got australia frozen, id say the marketing team needs to be sacked on this one

Just saw the movie, and it was fantastic. Best thing Disney made in a long time! The music was actually good, and catchy. Something that I actually will find myself singing in the future.
Olaf was adorable and funny as heck, the movie has a strong sense of warmth that Disney lost for a while. I'm completely satisfied with the movie, which is weird. I'm trying to think of one complaint but there was none.
If anything I would love to see a movie where Elsa becomes evil, sort of pull a Magnificent. You have to admit, Elsa would make a great villain if she was given the broken heart and loneliness to do so.

MINIMAL VAGUE SPOILERS:

I just saw it tonight and while it was less silly-cutesy-childish than I thought it was going to be from the trailers, .... it still was a bit too much for me.

And the singing! GOD I hate musicals .... I didn't know it was going to be, and I was disappointed every time a song started up x.x Though I must say, I had heard "Let it Go" before, and that is the only song I didn't mind in the movie. Much like Tangled's "At Last I see the Light" or whatever it's called. I just am very irked by songs that are like "I'm in my room, and I'm going to see my sister now. And I'm knocking on her door but she won't open it. And now I'm bored. And I'm sitting here in my castle. Lalala."

Basically, I'm okay with songs that could be used in ANY other context but the one it's in in the movie. But any narrative songs that could easily be left out and replaced with dialogue or just not exist at all, I just ... -siggghhhhh-



Ahem. But enough about that. I really liked the twist at how they save the day in the end. A much better and more original message than I thought they would go for.
The graphics were gorgeous, and Anna was such an adorkable, believable character. And I loved Elsa. I could have done without Olaf, but that's just me...

See, if the ad campaign hadn't sucked, you would have known it was a musical. :P

I went with my 24-year-old best friend >3>;

I wish I had D: I went with Ginny and a couple of our friends, but I haven't seen Jason in months... He's living with his grandparents right now because the school district screwed us over and he couldn't get any support for his disability here. I've talked to him on the phone and on Skype, and I've played Minecraft with him over the Internet, but I really miss him. :(

Damn, it sucks you haven't seen your son in ages but at least he's getting the support in school that he requires. :3

And now I want to watch Frozen even more now. *adds it to list of movies I wanna watch* @_@

"Summer is a good time to play and cuddle,
put me in the summer and I'll be a...
-stares at a puddle-
HAPPY SNOWMAAAAN! :D"

Aaaah.. Olaf... xD

iTunes has a deluxe soundtrack with not only the full score but also a number of demo tracks, outtakes, and KARAOKE TRACKS. GOOD stuff.

Damn when my friend and I went to see Epic we saw the trailer for Frozen and I thought that derpy snow man is not sucking me in. I was not a big fan of Tangled and seeing Frozen in the same animation style also played against it. When I heard it was going to be one of my favorite fairy tales but about sisters instead of Gerda and Kai I kinda decided then and there that it was not worth seeing. But after reading this thread I may give it a look. Especially if Disney finally found a musical artist that can match the caliber Howard Ashman.

Seen a few videos from it along with this...definitely want to see it now.

Disney posted one of the musical numbers on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk

This song is only like 20 minutes into the movie so it's not much in the way of spoilers. It made me shed tears in the theater just from the pure emotion and intensity of it.