The Tudyk Trilogy: Frozen (part 1)

It took a good 70 years for Disney to figure out how to make a movie out of Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen, and it probably shouldn't be surprising that their solution was to essentially throw out most of the original story and make it a musical about two sister princesses... And maybe it was the relative novelty of seeing a sisterly relationship in a Disney movie (heck, even the popularly cited example was more about a girl and her pet alien :-)). Maybe it was the great tunes. Maybe it was turning certain aspects of the "traditional" fairy tale upside down. Or maybe it was just the weather... ;-)


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Either way, Frozen was a major phenomenon that racked up $400m (!) in the US, and ultimately raced to $1.2b worldwide, thanks to the hikikomori of Japan helping to chip in a good chunk of its $250m gross there (!!), and it also finally won Disney its first Oscar(s) for a non-Pixar cartoon since Tarzan (coincidentally, directed by one of this film's co-directors). It attracted many people that otherwise would never have set foot in a cinema on their own to see what the fuss was all about (I was one of those people :-)) and I imagine that it'll inspire some young people to work for Disney, as Ariel did some 25 years before... But really, what WAS the fuss all about? Let's get to it, shall we?

( Let's get chillin' )