The Snow Queen Movie Review & Film Summary (2. Who can resist a Mixmaster- full of myths taking off from a beloved Hans Christian Anderson tale, and updated with a progressive role model for girls? Advertisement. A Russian production directed by Maxim Sveshnikov and Vlad Barbe, with animation from a Russian lab, the film is dubbed with a kind of Americanese. What's a troll with a sorta Bronx accent and Brooklyn attitude doing in a Danish fairy tale about two little kids who lost their parents to a vengeful Snow Queen? This queen, voiced by Cindy Robinson, shows up mainly at the beginning and end of the film; she's chilling but not thrillingly threatening. It's Gerda's (Jessica Straus) story anyway.
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She is on a fraught journey, looking for her lost brother Kai (voiced by Marianne Miller) held in captivity by the Snow Queen. In what may be a metaphor for Russia and its suppression of creativity (check out the domed castles), the Snow Queen has destroyed the world with ice and a cold north wind from a vial. That world included the kids' glass- maker dad who created mirrors that can reveal your true self.
Intro (Firm : London, England); BBC Worldwide Ltd.,; BBC Video (Firm. The Snow Queen is a heart-warming story of friendship and the triumph of love. BBC Home Entertainment Releases THE HUNT Narrated by Sir David. Title: The Snow Queen (TV Movie 2005) 6.2 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? You must be a registered. I didn't really like Disney's Frozen, the inescapable movie based on 'The Snow Queen' by Hans Christian Andersen. In the fourth “The Snow Queen” story.
Gerda and Kai miraculously escaped the destruction. After some brief early scenes in a dreary place called . She never backs down from a fight. But she's a bit of a bore, a Ms. Goody Two Shoes of a junior feminist heroine.
It's a perverse pleasure to be able to complain about a type women have been crying out for; in a way, when you can criticize . But Gerda just doesn't have the spunk or spirit of Merida, the Scottish fighter princess of . He provides some comic relief with the few good lines of the film, like complaining about discrimination against trolls. Too, the Troll's snow- boarding at least moves. Most of the animation is curiously static. Perhaps trying to please the p.
They found some other female- centric bits, including roadside gypsies/highway robbers headed up by a matriarchal babe, and a wise old crone throwing runes. Even the Snow Queen declares she and Gerda might have been good friends under different circumstances. Bright green leaves and aggressive tendrils play off nicely against the white snow and ice, a rare visual treat in the film. Yet the impact of this sequence comes from other sources: Flower Woman is a .
Perhaps our worries about global warming and diminishing ice get in the way. Or maybe we're tired of the obligatory shape- shifting monsters which inevitably turn up. Gerda's white kitten comes into play here, and our familiar Christmas white Coca- Cola polar bear gets downright nasty. Critical overthink, the reviewers' contagious virus, might lead you to wonder if the film is part of a plot setting us up for Disney's coming- soon animated version: .
Kids over three will probably not get caught up in the story, especially since most of the characters look like stunned dolls with huge, vapid- looking blue eyes. Medieval type kings and queens doing battle are represented by what could almost be plastic toys moving around. For sophisticated children weaned on clever video games, boredom and distraction seem inevitable, even in a short 8.