Disney's Frozen Fever Trailer

UPDATE: New trailer just released! Video at the bottom of the blog!

Almost a year after Frozen smashed into theaters, becoming the highest grossing animated film of all time, we finally get to see a sequel short, especially after the success of Disney’s Tangled Ever After. 

As the last short, this short will be premiering in front of the new live-action Cinderella movie (with Helena Bonham Carter!) With all the princess stories  seeming to be taken care of, Disney is taking a new direction with their films: remaking them into live action. Cinderella has already been made and before it has even been released, they are already in the making of a live-action Beauty and the Beast with Emma Watson playing Belle (and a possibility for Ryan Gosling? Still rather have Channing Tatum, personally). It seems a bit risky to already start another live-action adaption without seeing how well (or not so well) the first one does. Disney seems a little skeptical as well, it seems they might be using Frozen Fever to get fans to come out and see the beautiful sisterhood of Anna and Elsa again and hopefully stick around and fall for the new Ella of Cinderella. I was going to come for Helena to begin with, because seeing her parts are little bits of heaven for me. 

A handful of pictures has been released by Disney regarding the short, and they can be seen in a short while, as well. The release date for the live-action Cinderella movie is March 13, 2015, and with that the release date for the short. 

The short takes place a few months after the events of the first film, for Anna’s
birthday in the summer, but Elsa has a cold which brings some issues. Since
Elsa has magic powers, she doesn’t get colds like normal people do, but that’s
all the directors’ have suggested about it.

The original directors, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, have come back to do this
short and with a brand new song. The pictures show a lot, even a new dress for
Elsa (and flower powers?) but to the point that it is all mostly guessed at. 

UPDATE: TRAILER JUST RELEASED

Response to new Jurassic World Trailer: Too Much or About Time?

            The movie trailer for the highly anticipated Jurassic World dropped early today, showing something that was always wanted from but never achieved by INGEN. A fully functioning Jurassic Park, renamed Jurassic World.

            It’s on an island, as was the dream, with kayaking down rivers of stegosaurus and riding through glass balls to watch walking Apatosaurus – it seems like a dream come true of all the original ideas with new upgrades (and not touring through carnivores, about time they stopped that mistake). With even more ideas than before, such as an outside amphitheater to watch a Svalbard Pliosaur jump out of the water? That’s insane. How in-depth is this island in its immersion of dinosaurs? It is more than a park, it seems like this is, indeed, an actual world you are being flung back into.

            This “world” doesn’t look like it was on its “grand opening,” either, or its pretesting like in the initial Jurassic Park: it is up and running. Swarms of people are seen throughout the trailer, with sun hats and taking pictures and videos with their iPhones. I mean, the parents of the two unnamed kids are totally fine with letting their sons (who can’t be of legal age) go to the park alone. Although, the for the Jurassic Park franchise, the parents have always seemed okay with putting their kids in questionable danger. “Hey, why don’t you go ride in this tour car with complete strangers by a king of the dinosaur’s exhibit when a tropical storm is coming.” Or my favorite, “go ahead and para-glide with my weird boyfriend by a condemned island known for years for murdering people that come near it.” So the question of how long and how safe the island is from the trailer from the kids going alone is only so sound, considering the franchises track record, and can only be speculated on so much from the trailer.

Genetics is the new theme, or the advancement of genetics is, with “a whole new frontier.” In the trailer, it is announced proudly that the “first genetically modified hybrid,” was created, with a questioning Chris Pratt. Of course things would go wrong, and they have to hire a known, skeptic badass to come save the day. That plot point seems a bit overdone, from Splice to the creation of MewTwo, but there is something that is different in each of them: how do they stop it. And that’s what I want to know.

From the trailer alone, I can tell that the soundtrack is already fantastic and the cinematography is superb. The money and talent is definitely behind the movie, bring even Steven Spielberg back to produce it. I mean look at how many extras there are. Even if the movie has a disappointing plot, from the CGI and imagination put into it, it’s going to be a hell of a summer movie. 

Here is just my reaction to the trailer:

Hearing the original theme brought back on piano brought me straight back to my five year old self watching Jurassic Park on repeat while squeezing the life out of my triceratops toy. I grew up on this movie more than any other (besides maybe Alien) and just the fan service from the trailer its making me get goose bumps. I mean, motorcycle with raptors? My heart is pounding from this trailer, I want to know what happens so bad. Yes, I want to know what that dinosaur that they made is, but what I really want from that movie that even the trailer gave me a taste of is that nostalgia. Going back to this impossible dream that even though everything goes wrong, there is a serene magic there among the blood and ruin. From one nerd to another, if you liked the first Jurassic Park, I feel like this movie is going to deliver that heart flutter of the original more so than any of the previous sequels. I have a good feeling about this movie.  

The Park Opens June 12