Kristen Bell Will Play the Lead in Disney’s Frozen

They should totally work a sloth into the plotline somehow.

The outtakes would be more fun than the film.

Okay, What is it with Disney and removing all mentions of ‘Princess’ or ‘Queen’ from their titles?  This sounds like ‘Tangled’ all over again! What is so wrong about having a title that sounds feminine? or has the name of the main female character in it? The Past few movies that I’ve seen released or I have seen mentioned from them they changed the original title to something ‘boys would like.’ just like with ‘John Carter’. Can’t mention the Princess in the title, even though she is essential to the plot! Why is this happening?

I’ll lay odds they’re following up on the success of “Enchanted”.  It’s amazing what odd things people will be convinced was the one and only thing that made a particular project a success.  Of course, one bets you’ll hear people maintaining it was the thing they personally were in charge of, but that’s just obvious.

Back when Legend of the Dark Knight came out, there were people at DC who maintained that the reason it sold so well was the innovative square-bound format, and not the general quality of the work.

I believe it all has to do with the “failure” of ‘The Princess and the Frog.’ Disney, in their infinite wisdom, blamed it’s box office failure not on the fact that it wasn’t a great movie, but that it didn’t appeal more to boys. 

Here’s a more in depth explanation. http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/03/09/the-real-reason-why-disney-changed-rapunzel-to-tangled/

 ’Tangled’, ‘Enchanted’, ‘Frozen.’ are they titles? or are they just throwing random verbs and adjectives out there and hope that will catch people’s attention? Does that mean if they given ‘The Princess and the Frog’ the title ‘Hopping’ they would have gotten more attention for it? Basically what this is telling me is that Disney has given up on proper titles and has been reduced to titling their movies ‘ooh! Shiney!’ to get kids attention.

Pardon my skeptism but I’m not confident that Disney will do one of my favorite fairy tales much credit. They definitely reworked the original ending of “The Little Mermaid” because it wasn’t exactly “happily ever after” when the mermaid hurled herself into the sea. But “The Snow Queen” has a good storyline and nobody dies. I don’t want them to tamper with it too much.

And I never considered the Snow Queen exactly a standard “bwhahaha” villain, more of a dangerous force of nature that you can’t destroy or defeat but would be lucky to escape from. Will Gerda have to destroy her Icy Majesty before she cuts out Kay’s heart and uses it to boost her magical powers to freeze the earth forever? I hope not.

Then again if Disney gets “Frozen” then are the rights for the title “The Snow Queen” still up for grabs? Because I’d hand it over to Studio Ghibli and let them bust their chops making a great movie out of it.

I’ve never particularly liked The Snow Queen – partly due to the cold and partly the meandering journey Gerda takes. I do like that the villain isn’t all that bad, just cold and a bit lonely. I hope it works, since I adore most Disney animated movies.

Quality isn’t inherently tied to how a movie performs, and, in any event, “The Princess and the Frog” got strong reviews.

It’s simple fact that the movie didn’t attract as much interest among boys as girls; hence, Disney’s marketing campaign for “Tangled” that played to that group, and found much more success (and note that they didn’t have to change the actual content, they just had to trick them into the theatre and they left satisfied).

Damn… while I’m super happy that it’s off the shelf and yay Kristen Bell! , I’m a little ticked that it’s definitely computer animated now.  My only hope is that computer animation will make for totally awesome snow and ice waste lands

 I know. The entire fairy tale is about the girl kicking ass, with the assistance of animals and other women, while the boy waits passively to be rescued. You just know Disney is going to RUIN it. They have no idea how to write female characters and The Snow Queen is basically nothing but.

I would love to see Studio Ghibli’s version of The Snow Queen. They do really well with both strong female leads and moral complexity. You know their version of the little robber girl (my favorite character) would be just amazing.

Past-tense verbs are all the rage with kids these days.

Wasn’t the misleading ad campaign one of the most common complaints about Tangled?

I’m sure it will be beautiful. Tangled was beautiful, even with its badly rendered characters. Anyway, their main 2D animatiors Ron Clements and John Musker are now basically pioneering a hand-drawn adaptation of Discworld, and to me, that’s way more exciting then a 2D Snow Queen.

Ohhh didn’t know about Discworld! That’s awesome!!
and I loved Tangled, I just have a special place in my heart for hand drawn

It had a very high CinemaScore rating, so audiences who went to see it clearly loved it.

Yes, Disney knows nothing about female leads; that’s why many of their most famous movies, including their last two, featured active female protagonists.

I agree with you on Ghibli hey tend to do stories justice I mean if you look at spirited away sort of a combo the wizard of oz and cinderella in the fact Chihiro ends up in a strange place having to fight a witch to escape and then Haku when he remembers who he is talks about Chihiro’s shoe and how he brought her to shore

I’m wary about this Disney doesn’t do good with girls thats probably why they haven’t done any Baba Yaga stories

If Tangled’s Rapunzel is your standard of “active” female protagonist, then I’m sure you’ll be happy with whatever Disney puts out.

Personally, I’m hoping they don’t recycle the same tired old “woman needs a man to kick her out of her rut” trope in Frozen that they’ve done with their last several female leads. Gerda is self-reliant and a self-starter in the original fairy tale and Disney better not screw that up.

I don’t doubt it. But I, for one, avoided going to see what appeared to be a sub-Dreamworks hip ‘tude-fest, and I have heard the same sentiment from many others who wound up seeing it on TV months later and being pleasantly surprised.

The prince finding Rapunzel in the tower is kind of the whole point of Rapunzel.

And I fail to see how Rapunzel doesn’t qualify as active.