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shallownessApparently Channel 5 will not be buying the rights to air season 3 of Once upon a Time. Grrr. Oh, I didn’t enjoy season 2 as much as season 1 - I bought the latter on DVD, although I haven’t rewatched it, and I have no intention of buying season 2 on DVD - but I did want to find out what happened next. I even had hopes that Five would buy Wonderland, even if it was going to get cancelled. I fear some non-Freeview channel is going to get it.
This is great timing, because today I also saw Disney’s Frozen, which was gorgeous and enjoyable. I was excited about it from when I heard about the casting and hoping I’d love it more than Tangled. I thought Tangled was good and I enjoyed it, but I didn’t take it to heart like others did.
This one? I wanted to give Anna warm hugs from the second she toddled on, an excited, over-dramatic bundle of energy who wanted to hang out with her cool big sister. I didn’t expect to love Elsa so much, but she was an Untouchable Girl (who gave Anna Rogue hair and felt guilty about it). And OLAF? I thought I was going to suffer through his comic sidekickiness, based on the posters, but something about him made me laugh a lot at him and take him to heart. And the trolls!
And I was chuffed by the storytelling choice about true love – because as soon as ‘an act of true love’ was introduced as the cure for Anna, I thought it should involve Elsa, not the romantic entanglements.
Although the romantic entanglements were fun. I liked Hans – sock sliding! – even if I was on the side of the ‘don’t get engaged to the first man you’ve met on the first day you met him’ argument, and had started thinking he might do for Elsa before the big reveal, which made sense and averted a double wedding. Anna and Kristoff’s bickering was a delight and someone should, no MUST, cast KBell in something screwball. And a UK distributor should pick up Veronica Mars.
And the singing – although, sadly, the number of songs tailed off at the end and even though perhaps none of them were classics, they set the mood beautifully. The film had me from the beginning, from the mood-setting song about ice and oh, the visuals – although the story might have gone differently if the King (the queen was a cipher) had got in a magical nanny or someone to help Elsa to control her powers. Also, NOT ON to erase Anna’s memories.
And yes, it did remind me of other Disney fairy tales (Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted and Tangled) and Mendel and her amazing voice were exploring an Elphabaish path, but it made me laugh and feel for both the girls. The fact that Anna had been craving love and how that affected her character was beautifully done. Sensitive little ones might not like Elsa's snow monster (well, a kid two rows behind me were howling) but it was the emotional stakes rather than the mild peril that got to me. It was a white-washed world - I liked the Nordic touches and Russian(?) influences, but why not have some Inuit characters, or even more significant female characters?
But I thought it was well done, lovely and touching entertainment.
This is great timing, because today I also saw Disney’s Frozen, which was gorgeous and enjoyable. I was excited about it from when I heard about the casting and hoping I’d love it more than Tangled. I thought Tangled was good and I enjoyed it, but I didn’t take it to heart like others did.
This one? I wanted to give Anna warm hugs from the second she toddled on, an excited, over-dramatic bundle of energy who wanted to hang out with her cool big sister. I didn’t expect to love Elsa so much, but she was an Untouchable Girl (who gave Anna Rogue hair and felt guilty about it). And OLAF? I thought I was going to suffer through his comic sidekickiness, based on the posters, but something about him made me laugh a lot at him and take him to heart. And the trolls!
And I was chuffed by the storytelling choice about true love – because as soon as ‘an act of true love’ was introduced as the cure for Anna, I thought it should involve Elsa, not the romantic entanglements.
Although the romantic entanglements were fun. I liked Hans – sock sliding! – even if I was on the side of the ‘don’t get engaged to the first man you’ve met on the first day you met him’ argument, and had started thinking he might do for Elsa before the big reveal, which made sense and averted a double wedding. Anna and Kristoff’s bickering was a delight and someone should, no MUST, cast KBell in something screwball. And a UK distributor should pick up Veronica Mars.
And the singing – although, sadly, the number of songs tailed off at the end and even though perhaps none of them were classics, they set the mood beautifully. The film had me from the beginning, from the mood-setting song about ice and oh, the visuals – although the story might have gone differently if the King (the queen was a cipher) had got in a magical nanny or someone to help Elsa to control her powers. Also, NOT ON to erase Anna’s memories.
And yes, it did remind me of other Disney fairy tales (Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted and Tangled) and Mendel and her amazing voice were exploring an Elphabaish path, but it made me laugh and feel for both the girls. The fact that Anna had been craving love and how that affected her character was beautifully done. Sensitive little ones might not like Elsa's snow monster (well, a kid two rows behind me were howling) but it was the emotional stakes rather than the mild peril that got to me. It was a white-washed world - I liked the Nordic touches and Russian(?) influences, but why not have some Inuit characters, or even more significant female characters?
But I thought it was well done, lovely and touching entertainment.
