Frozen

Review by Pete Roche

The characters and settings in Walt Disney’s new FROZEN look like they exist in the same world as those in TANGLED. 

Maybe they do.

Where TANGLED re-imagined the Brothers Grimms’ hair-challenged Rapunzel for modern audiences, FROZEN borrows from an 1845 Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, working a similarly charming magic on the big-screen (and employing another one-word adjective for a title that has a better ring than its original “Snow Queen”).  The animation styles applied to the cartoon constituents of chilly Arendale so closely resemble those used for Rapunzel and Flynn Rider that the medieval men and women (and animals) from both films could be considered computer-generated cousins. 

But this time out, kiddies get to meet not just one new Disney Princess, but two.