Movie Review: Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 is a kids’ movie that feels like a cross between The Incredibles and Wreck-It Ralph. It’s also one the most enjoyable movies I’ve seen all year. I’m going to just say right now that unless you’ve all the way grown up and don’t like watching kids’ movies anymore, you will probably enjoy Big Hero 6. Especially if you’ve ever lived in San Francisco.
Movie Review: Frozen
Two conflicting thoughts: “Frozen is a kids’ story” and “Nobody told me Disney was writing a musical!”
Frozen is a fairy tale with really good songs. It’s a mix of the classic Disney fairy tale animations with the company’s recent independent heroines (cf. Tangled), directed by Jennifer Lee (who was a writer for Wreck-It Ralph1) and produced by John Lasseter (of Pixar fame). It’s supposedly loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen, but reading through the synopsis of that shows that what’s left is more “cultural references” than actual basis for the film. Which is fine.
"Sisters"
Patricia (Patwiti) said that she wanted more stories from me, since she’s been doing so many stories of her own. Today I’m obliging with a bit of meta-fanfiction: a scene from an alternate conception of the new movie Oz: The Great and Powerful, which I saw last weekend and actually quite appreciated.
It feels weird to be writing about this movie before writing a review, although I’m plenty behind on movie reviews. But I know if I write a review now, it’ll get too late and I won’t want to buckle down and write the piece. That said, this contains spoilers. Even though most of what I do in here will not be how the movie plot goes, it will cause you to watch the movie differently when it reaches the equivalent scene.