What do they say about "Frozen 2"

Frozen 2 – The secret of Arendelle, the sequel to one of the most watched animated films in history, will arrive in Italy on November 27, but elsewhere in the world has already come out, and several reviews have already been released. They say, in short, that Frozen 2 does not reach the levels of the first Frozen (which was generally appreciated by critics) but which in any case is a well-made animation film, which will please. To use an effective summary of the Wall Street Journal: "For many it will be a pleasure to see it, but not many will be surprised."

Frozen 2 is the 58th Disney Classic and was made practically by the same group of people who took care of the first, which was the 53rd Disney Classic. There are the same directors (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, who is also a screenwriter of both), the same producer and, more or less, the same authors for the music and the words of the songs, a fundamental part for the success of the first Frozen and consequently a central part also in Frozen 2. Before talking about the new, however, a few words about the old.

The first Frozen
It came out in 2013, after the Disney Classic Ralph Cutter and before the Disney Classic Big Hero 6, freely inspired by the fairy tale The snow queen by Hans Christian Andersen. In the world he collected more than a billion euros and won the Academy Awards for the best animated film and for the best song: "Let it go".

Also known as "At dawn I will rise":

Frozen speaks of Anna and Elsa, two separate sisters (due to the powers of Elsa) who then reunite, and a reindeer, a snowman and an ice seller named Kristoff. There are difficulties, obstacles, deceptions and misunderstandings, but in the end everything is resolved: Anna gets involved with Kristoff, Elsa becomes queen and all the good guys are happy and happy. If you are one of those who forget the story lines of the films, do not worry: inside Frozen 2 there is a sort of summary of the plot of the first film, made by one of the characters who lived through the events.

The new Frozen
It is still set in the realm of Arendelle, a place where anyone who loves the cold and the beautiful northern landscapes would gladly live, and when it starts it's been three years since the events of the first film. They are all well and are still all happy and contented, but there is a problem: Elsa hears – and only she feels it – a voice, which awakens her dormant powers in her. Problems follow, after which Elsa confesses to Anna, so that the two can try together to find a solution.

«Find out who is calling you, you may find answers»

About the journey and the adventure of Frozen 2, Manohla Dargis wrote on New York Times that they are "lively, amusing and predictably predictable, with revelations, reconciliations and some political things for adults"; the story is visually rich and imaginative, but unfortunately "never surprising". Dargis, however, is 58 years old and works as a critic of cinema New York Times: there is a risk that it may have a different perception than that of eight-year-olds. On the Telegraph, Robbie Collin has noticed that we see just that Frozen 2 and Disney know their viewers very well and know how to give them what they want, and that in this case they managed to do it in a film that is also "generous and fascinating".

However, there are those who, like Kristen Page-Kirby of Washington Post, wrote that besides not being at the level of the first film, Frozen 2 "It's still opaque and disappointing, a pale shadow of what could have been". "It's difficult," wrote Page-Kirby, "to understand how the same people who did something so beautiful in 2013 could have done something so warm." Up Vox, Alissa Wilkinson has made a long dissertation – which for the first few paragraphs speaks of madeleines and Marcel Proust – to criticize the fact that Disney looks too much at the past and focuses too much on nostalgia, when in the past he thought more about the future.

Several critics have written, after seeing Frozen 2, that there are songs that could have a success comparable to the first: but again they are songs made for a very different audience, and therefore we will have to wait and see what will happen. About what happened instead after the first one Frozen, the New York Times talked to parents and children about the songs from the first movie. Contains the sentence, said by one of the parents, "my ears bleed", but also the dialogue in which Elsa – a 6-year-old London girl (then called "Elsa" not after the film) says, about "Let it go ":" I listened to it 91 times ". To which his mother replies: "It is more correct to say 91 times per week».