Frozen: Impressive Animation, Hilarious Fun-Loving Characters

Disney’s animation has truly come a long way since 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and in its newest movie, Frozen, it goes all the way to the Kingdom of Arendelle; erecting its walls and molding its people with very impressive computer animation. Not to say that Snow White wasn’t impressive as well, it will forever remain a classic in the history of Disney animation, but Frozen takes animated characters, and ice, to a whole other level. Light reflects perfectly, and in a zillion different directions on the frozen walls of Queen Elsa’s (voiced by Idina Menzel) castle. Not only that but the queen has impeccable hair!

The movie opens with the enchanting sounds of Norwegian music. We see a young boy, Kristoff (voiced by Johnathan Groff), learning the trade of ice harvesting. Back in the castle, we see two sister princesses, Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) and Elsa, playing in snow like best friends. However, Elsa has a magical secret: she can create ice and freeze just about anything. The problem is when “just about anything” becomes her sister, and after a terrible accident, the two sisters and best friends, grow more and more apart. A second accident at Elsa’s coronation as queen makes her leave the kingdom for good. But Anna is determined to find her and sets off in a frozen journey with the rugged ice harvester Kristoff.

Along to accompany them in this journey is Disney’s – and the world’s – most hilarious snowman…ever. Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) is a snowman whose biggest dream is to see summer. He stumbles on unfortunate events everywhere he goes, and has ginormous teeth. His silly face, along with his bad luck, makes for an incredibly amusing movie. The movie could’ve been all him and that would’ve been enough for the audience of kids who were laughing with his every move.

For the older viewers in the audience, the jokes surely don’t go underappreciated either. Just make sure to keep eyes firmly fixed on the screen during the story’s first fifteen-minute setup; the script hustles through faster than these kids’ cries to leave, immediately after the movie ended.  

Preceding the movie of Frozen is a highly creative short animation, Get a Horse, with the beloved Mickey Mouse and his gang of friends. The animation features Mickey, drawn in the old style ways, but with a clever 2D/3D pun. Mickey keeps going back and forth from a world of 2D animation to one of 3D animation. The story’s clever, and absolutely brilliant to watch. I wouldn’t be surprised if director, Lauren McMullan, got an Oscar for Best Animated Short.

Disney’s animation studios have truly grown in terms of computer technology and have not been frugal in its use. It’s all over this movie; in the way the snowflakes fall from the sky and accumulate on the ground, in the character’s beautiful strands of hair, and even in the manner light reflects on, and refracts through, the many walls of ice that compose the movie’s scenario. What perfectionism, what meticulousness, and I will never cease to be amazed by it. Truly impressive.

Moreover, Disney has once again succeeded in creating really funny characters, Olaf being the leader, of course. So if you’re in the mood for a film highlighting great animation and funny and memorable characters, then Frozen is the ticket – a fun event for kids and parents alike.