The biggest challenges facing JJ Abrams with Ep9 are the same as he’s faced for the entire Sequel Trilogy, to whit: (1) satisfying fans of the Original Trilogy, and (2) creating the next generation of fans with the new cast/direction. By ‘fan’ I don’t mean someone who just goes and watches each movie dutifully once (like say a typical ‘fan’ of the Mission Impossible franchise might), but someone who watches all the movies multiple times, gets their friends and kids and parents to watch it, and buys into all the merchandise for years or even decades: toys, Halloween costumes, books, comics, TV spin-offs, games, theme park tickets, etc. Ideally Disney/Kennedy/Abrams would want to fulfill both (1) AND (2), but if it comes down to it, they could give up some of (1) if they get more of (2) in return. The worse case scenario would be if they whiffed on both …
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Frozen (2013, dir. Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee): fun for both kids and parents
3 years after Tangled, Disney is back at it with another CGI musical adaptation of a classic fairy tale. This time, it’s Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” (1845), though there’s not much in common with the original story – there’s a Snow Queen, trolls (now cute instead of evil), a young girl, and it’s set somewhere in Scandinavia. Disney, being Disney, added in no less than two princesses :-(, but at least in keeping with the times they aren’t waiting around for a handsome prince to save them. John Lasseter’s Pixar formula is by now well-oiled and slickly executed – the humor, the intelligent animal, the sidekick (this time a talking snowman), etc. Fun for both kids and parents (thumbs up from Little Miss 4yo!)
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