Disney's Frozen - Part 2

[Lily Adler]

the beginning of the decline!!!???

I know too soon, but the next movie will have to be BIG to top this.

 

[X Knight]

oh, and would Frozen be considered the Lion King of the Revival or the BB??

Tangled is the Mermaid.

Frozen is the BB??

 

[The Silent Traveler]

Yeah, Moana probably will be the next "Pocahontas". I saw the news somewhere on the Internet.

That's one:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/disney-moana_n_4455075.html

 

[X Knight]

I will only accept a short where Elsa meets a prince or princess.

yes......she needs to find a prince to melt her heart.

or a pet raven!!

 

[The Silent Traveler]

oh, and would Frozen be considered the Lion King of the Revival or the BB??

Tangled is the Mermaid.

Frozen is the BB??

What does the BB stand for? Thanks.

 

[X Knight]

Yeah, Moana probably will be the next "Pocahontas". I saw the news somewhere on the Internet.

That's one:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/disney-moana_n_4455075.html

4 years is a long time for the next princess movie.

They're also doing a Jack and the Beanstalk film ( called Giants ) which I heard has a princess in it.

so maybe that will be their next princess movie, followed by Moana.

but, with Moana, if it's an "original" story........they do run the risk of that not doing too well.

the formula has been to adapt well-known ( or fairly well-known ) fairy tales.

 

[X Knight]

What does the BB stand for? Thanks.

Beauty and the Beast.

 

[Lily Adler]

I would have pegged it as the BB of the Revival, but now that it's the highest grossing film from Disney Animation, I can see it as the new TLK. Unless BB made a similar box office boom.

 

[X Knight]

I know too soon, but the next movie will have to be BIG to top this.

it's gonna be really, really hard to top this.

especially if it reaches $400M ( which it probably will in a few weeks ).

I'm sure the DVD/Blu-Ray sales will be something, too.

This movie is just unstoppable.

the fact that it's held up so well so long after release, in spite of the competition and some generally pretty crappy, frozen (ironic huh?) weather hitting most of the country, is nothing short of amazing!!

 

[The Silent Traveler]

I hope that Disney will do Moana's story justice if that's well written. I will see how it happens in 2018.

 

[X Knight]

I would have pegged it as the BB of the Revival, but now that it's the highest grossing film from Disney Animation, I can see it as the new TLK. Unless BB made a similar box office boom.

it's both BB AND TLK!! t:

but it certainly has the mainstream appeal that TLK did.

I don't recall BB having that mainstream appeal, even though, for me at least, still nothing tops BB in terms of being a quality masterpiece.

there's just something about Beauty ( and the titular song ).

it just has that extra special quality that still sets it apart from the other films. It really is a Tale as Old as Time. A Song as Old as Rhyme.

again, imo........of course.

 

[Lily Adler]

I floved BB growing up it was THE best Disney movie for me.

Tale as old as time...

 

[X Knight]

I floved BB growing up it was THE best Disney movie for me.

Tale as old as time...

Yes!!

although, ironically, growing up, I didn't really gravitate towards BB when I watched it as a kid.

for me, back then, Little Mermaid was IT!! Ariel was my huge crush!! I judged all other subsequent films and princesses against Mermaid and Ariel.

and none of them came close.......lol

it wasn't until about 4 years ago, as a guy in his late 20s, when I got bit by the nostalgia bug and decided to watch some of those renaissance films again on Youtube.

Luckily, someone had posted Beauty on Youtube ( broken up into several parts ).

THAT'S when I fell in love with BB. As an adult, I connected with the story in a way I never did as a kid. When I got to the ending ( which I had largely forgotten ), and the Beast died in Belle's arms............I was like.....NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

and, much to my surprise, I found myself more attracted to Belle as a character, even more so than Ariel. not just because Belle's beautiful (duh) but because of the qualities she represented.

by comparison, Ariel seemed rather........selfish and bratty........lol.

oh, and that song!! THAT SONG!! After I heard the Celine version of Beauty, I scolded myself and wondered "How the hell did I miss out on that song for all those years??!!"

 

[danoyse]

The Little Mermaid was the one that started that era. I was in high school when that came out, and I remember kids my age were going to see it and couldn't believe that they were. I actually missed it in theaters, but I'd heard so much about it that when the VHS came out I bought it right away.

By the time Beauty and the Beast came out, everyone was going to see it, and it didn't matter that it was a cartoon. My friends and I all thought it was as good as a Broadway musical. I dragged a friend to see it - he'd made me see Wayne's World with him a week earlier, and I'd only agreed to see that if he'd see Beauty and the Beast with me next. He even tried to back out of it, but his mother made him go. He loved it, though. Twenty minutes into the movie, he was like "This is great!" I think he even bought the soundtrack afterwards.

And then Aladdin came out, and that was huge. I was in college by then, and I went to a 10:30pm show which was completely sold out and you actually couldn't hear parts of it because people were laughing so much. I remember the guy sitting across from us nearly falling out of his chair laughing when the Genie did the Taxi Driver impression. It was wild, because you just didn't see that kind of humor in a cartoon before. It's something we see all the time now.

The Lion King was the last big one. I actually saw it twice on opening day. By then you were used to hearing singles from the Disney movies on the radio.

I guess the novelty kind of wore off after that. Pocohantas was ok, but people weren't as into it. Hunchback (which I loved) was too dark for kids. By then, Toy Story had come out, and the Pixar era started.

It was a great time for Disney movies, though. It's weird that it's actually so long ago now.

 

[The Silent Traveler]

I hope The revival of Disney Renaissance will continue as long as Walt Disney Animation Studio delivers well written stories with well developed characters. I enjoyed The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pochanatas, Mulan, Hercules, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, and the Emperor's New Groove when I was young. They are my childhood movies and yeah, I missed being through the Disney Renaissance Era.

 

[X Knight]

The Little Mermaid was the one that started that era. I was in high school when that came out, and I remember kids my age were going to see it and couldn't believe that they were. I actually missed it in theaters, but I'd heard so much about it that when the VHS came out I bought it right away.

By the time Beauty and the Beast came out, everyone was going to see it, and it didn't matter that it was a cartoon. My friends and I all thought it was as good as a Broadway musical. I dragged a friend to see it - he'd made me see Wayne's World with him a week earlier, and I'd only agreed to see that if he'd see Beauty and the Beast with me next. He even tried to back out of it, but his mother made him go. He loved it, though. Twenty minutes into the movie, he was like "This is great!" I think he even bought the soundtrack afterwards.

And then Aladdin came out, and that was huge. I was in college by then, and I went to a 10:30pm show which was completely sold out and you actually couldn't hear parts of it because people were laughing so much. I remember the guy sitting across from us nearly falling out of his chair laughing when the Genie did the Taxi Driver impression. It was wild, because you just didn't see that kind of humor in a cartoon before. It's something we see all the time now.

The Lion King was the last big one. I actually saw it twice on opening day. By then you were used to hearing singles from the Disney movies on the radio.

I guess the novelty kind of wore off after that. Pocohantas was ok, but people weren't as into it. Hunchback (which I loved) was too dark for kids. By then, Toy Story had come out, and the Pixar era started.

It was a great time for Disney movies, though. It's weird that it's actually so long ago now.

it does feel like an eternity ago............

and I was younger than you when Mermaid came out. I think I dragged my dad to see that movie 10+ times in the theater........lol.

and I agree, by the time Pocahontas came out, the novelty was starting to wear off. I think out of all the renaissance films, I like Pocahontas the least.

and of course, by then, I was getting older, and then you start entering that stage where you think these cartoons are too kiddy to watch. especially for a guy.

Tarzan was the last Disney Studios animated film I saw in the theaters. That was....what? 1999, I think?

After that, I stopped watching animated films in theaters, with the exception of Incredibles, Brave, and that god-awful Pokemon movie.

I missed Tangled in the theaters cuz I had a bias against CGI animation.....

so Frozen was the 1st Disney Studio animated film I saw in theaters since Tarzan in 1999!!!

and it was SO WORTH IT!! t:

 

[Incarnadine]

Robin Williams was responsible for so much of the humor in Aladdin. I remember way back, just after it came out, some Disney execs. were doing an interview and said that they kept trying to keep Robin Williams on script, but he just kept flying off and doing his own thing, but he had everyone in the studio laughing so hard they eventually said "screw it, let him go and we'll just animate around it later".

 

[Snow Queen]

Yeah, Moana probably will be the next "Pocahontas". I saw the news somewhere on the Internet.

That's one:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/disney-moana_n_4455075.html

I still have some faith in that one. Though I thought PatF wasn't very good, Little Mermaid and Aladdin definitely were and hopefully they'll do something on par with those two.

 

[danoyse]

Robin Williams was responsible for so much of the humor in Aladdin. I remember way back, just after it came out, some Disney execs. were doing an interview and said that they kept trying to keep Robin Williams on script, but he just kept flying off and doing his own thing, but he had everyone in the studio laughing so hard they eventually said "screw it, let him go and we'll just animate around it later".

I'm hearing that the actor playing the Genie in the new stage version of Aladdin (which just started previews on Broadway last week) is totally hilarious too. That's a tough act to follow.

I've read that they just let Robin Williams just go nuts until he exhausted himself. He was so awesome. The Genie is still one of my favorite animated Disney characters.

 

[danoyse]

it does feel like an eternity ago............

and I was younger than you when Mermaid came out. I think I dragged my dad to see that movie 10+ times in the theater........lol.

and I agree, by the time Pocahontas came out, the novelty was starting to wear off. I think out of all the renaissance films, I like Pocahontas the least.

and of course, by then, I was getting older, and then you start entering that stage where you think these cartoons are too kiddy to watch. especially for a guy.

Tarzan was the last Disney Studios animated film I saw in the theaters. That was....what? 1999, I think?

After that, I stopped watching animated films in theaters, with the exception of Incredibles, Brave, and that god-awful Pokemon movie.

I missed Tangled in the theaters cuz I had a bias against CGI animation.....

so Frozen was the 1st Disney Studio animated film I saw in theaters since Tarzan in 1999!!!

and it was SO WORTH IT!! t:

I remember going to Disney World when Pocohantas came out, and the parks were so over saturated with merchandise from it that we were so sick of it by the time we left we were already sick of the movie. The soundtrack was the only music they played in the parks. I even asked one of the cast members if she was sick of the music, and she said, "Oh, I love it. I wake up at 3am every morning screaming the words."

I saw Tarzan, and Hercules in theaters. And I saw Tangled, which I really liked. I liked Princess and the Frog too, although I missed it in the theater.

The Little Mermaid was the movie I saw so many times with the kids I used to babysit for that I didn't watch it again for ages. It's my friend's favorite movie, though, she watches it with her daughters now.

The only Pixar movie I ever missed in the theater was Monsters University, which I actually still haven't seen...

I have to start getting my Disney blu-ray collection going again, there are a few out now that I still don't have.

 

[X Knight]

I never really got into the Pixar movies.

I've only seen Incredibles and Brave in theaters. and I watched Toy Story 1 ( and I think 2 ) on video.

that's it. lol

 

[Snow Queen]

I have to start getting my Disney blu-ray collection going again, there are a few out now that I still don't have.

Judging from the schedule they've been going on, Cinderella and Peter Pan will be going back in the vault at the end of April. So if you want those two, you might want to go get them sometime soon.

 

[danoyse]

Judging from the schedule they've been going on, Cinderella and Peter Pan will be going back in the vault at the end of April. So if you want those two, you might want to go get them sometime soon.

Cinderella I have, Peter Pan I have to get. I saw a bunch of them at Best Buy last week, so I'll pick that one up next week.

 

[Incarnadine]

It looks like Disney wants to push the grosses for Frozen as far as they will go. It's just been announced Frozen will be re-released in France on March 15. I believe it's just the sing-a-long version, but there may be regular shows as well. South Korea gets the sing-a-long version March 6.
I'm kind of expecting other overseas markets to be announced too, especially the markets where it was really big, like Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Russia and Sweden (Still no solid numbers from Sweden, but it won the weekend there again, making 5 straight weeks at #1 there)

 

[X Knight]

Judging from the schedule they've been going on, Cinderella and Peter Pan will be going back in the vault at the end of April. So if you want those two, you might want to go get them sometime soon.

yeah.....I really need to get those before they go bye bye.