For the first time in forever (well, since first really getting into TV Tropes), I have finally been able to watch a movie without talking in somewhere in it, and just be awed by the beauty of it all. TV Tropes, you nearly ruined my life, but this movie saved it!
But enough gushing, let's get into the Review itself.
I have to commend the animators for the brilliant job they did with the ice, with trying to not make it look like plastic, with all of the details of the refraction and the structure of the ice itself. And even though they had to flub the animation of Elsa's hair at one point, I couldn't tell. In fact, I wouldn't have known if for the fact I read it here, and I've re-watched the scene at least a dozen times, and I've given up trying to spot the exact moment it happens.
The music is hauntingly beautiful (excepting of course, the comic relief upbeat songs, In Summer and Fixer Upper), and I cannot say enough how amazing the songs are. And I'm not just talking about the songs sung by the characters, but the soundtrack behind it fits in, subtly heightening all of the drama and tension. Now, the songs sung by the characters are something in and of themselves. Seriously, Let It Go, the most powerful song in the piece, also hints at the turmoil inside Elsa's heart, while the clashing Minor and Major chords in First Time in Forever (Reprise) give such power to the scene, and the hopelessness of Elsa's Isolation not being enough to save Arrandelle from her contrasting with Anna's hope that Elsa will be able to fix the problem and return to Arrandelle really sells the scene.
Onto the story, and this is one thing that I absolutely have to praise Disney for (other than the songs atleast): the plot twist, which is still too much of a spoiler to put even in this pre-warned review, yet you know exactly what I'm talking about if you've seen the movie, is one of the most cruel twists I've ever seen, and that I barely saw coming (seriously, the moment that Anna entered the room just before The Reveal, I knew that it wasn't gonna work out, but not in THAT way), but the follow up with one of the most heart-wrenching scenes I have ever seen in ANY film, with familial love replacing romantic love as "True Love", wow.
Wow. Just... Wow.
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For the first time in forever (well, since first really getting into TV Tropes), I have finally been able to watch a movie without talking in somewhere in it, and just be awed by the beauty of it all. TV Tropes, you nearly ruined my life, but this movie saved it!
But enough gushing, let's get into the Review itself.
I have to commend the animators for the brilliant job they did with the ice, with trying to not make it look like plastic, with all of the details of the refraction and the structure of the ice itself. And even though they had to flub the animation of Elsa's hair at one point, I couldn't tell. In fact, I wouldn't have known if for the fact I read it here, and I've re-watched the scene at least a dozen times, and I've given up trying to spot the exact moment it happens.
The music is hauntingly beautiful (excepting of course, the comic relief upbeat songs, In Summer and Fixer Upper), and I cannot say enough how amazing the songs are. And I'm not just talking about the songs sung by the characters, but the soundtrack behind it fits in, subtly heightening all of the drama and tension. Now, the songs sung by the characters are something in and of themselves. Seriously, Let It Go, the most powerful song in the piece, also hints at the turmoil inside Elsa's heart, while the clashing Minor and Major chords in First Time in Forever (Reprise) give such power to the scene, and the hopelessness of Elsa's Isolation not being enough to save Arrandelle from her contrasting with Anna's hope that Elsa will be able to fix the problem and return to Arrandelle really sells the scene.
Onto the story, and this is one thing that I absolutely have to praise Disney for (other than the songs atleast): the plot twist, which is still too much of a spoiler to put even in this pre-warned review, yet you know exactly what I'm talking about if you've seen the movie, is one of the most cruel twists I've ever seen, and that I barely saw coming (seriously, the moment that Anna entered the room just before The Reveal, I knew that it wasn't gonna work out, but not in THAT way), but the follow up with one of the most heart-wrenching scenes I have ever seen in ANY film, with familial love replacing romantic love as "True Love", wow.
Oh, enough already. Just go see it. 11/10