Review by Gary Tooze

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• Original Theatrical Short "Get a Horse" (6:00)

• The Making of Frozen (3:18)

• D'Frosted: Disney's Journey from Hans Christian Andersen to Frozen (7:28)

• Music Videos (15:42)

• Original Teaser Trailer (1:32)

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Description: Fearless optimist Anna teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter.

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After the kingdom of Arendelle cast into eternal winter by the powerful Snow Queen Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), her sprightly sister Anna (Kristen Bell) teams up with a rough-hewn mountaineer named Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his trusty reindeer Sven to break the icy spell. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee co-directed this Walt Disney Animation Studios production based on Hans Christian Andersen's beloved fairy tale The Snow Queen.

 

 

The Film:

Excerpt from The Guardian located HERE

Image :    NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

Frozen is an incredibly visual movie experience and the Disney Blu-ray fully supports the film's dynamic eye candy in flawless animation transferred in HD. Despite being released in theatres in 3D, there will be no 3D Blu-ray disc for Frozen in the US - but some of the European 3D issues are listed as region FREE. Modern animation is different than live action in that it is already rendered digitally and should be a simple process to slap on Blu-ray, looking as near to theatrical perfection as possible for the 1080P format. Technically this is dual-layered with a supportive bitrate. On my system it looked pristine - as 'kinetic' as it did theatrically - just smaller (my screen). Colors are passive - motion is as smooth as silk. Contrast exhibits undeniably perfect layering. This Blu-ray provides a jaw-dropping image. I was as blown away as I was in the cinema by the magic of Elsa's ice-creation marvel.

NOTE: I believe the theatrical aspect ratio was 2.35:1 where this Blu-ray is about 2.23:1.

CLICK EACH BLU-RAY CAPTURE TO SEE ALL IMAGES IN FULL 1920X1080 RESOLUTION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audio is unreal - a mighty DTS-HD Master 7.1 at a floor shaking 4906 kbps. Icy effects are sharp and deep while separations are head-turning. But the appeal would be for the, Robert Lopez + Kristen Anderson-Lopez , award-winning songs - notably  “Fixer Upper”, “In Summer”, “For the First Time in Forever" and Idina Menzel belting out Elsa’s uplifting anthem of liberation "Let it Go". Without owning the CD - I can only posit what I have consistently felt that this lossless, uncompressed medium will blow all other digital forms out of the water. This pure audio is awesome - rich, crisp, intensely solid. Disney continue to offer the important Descriptive Services option and there are also optional subtitles. My Oppo has identified it as being a region FREE disc playable on Blu-ray machines worldwide.

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BOTTOM LINE:
I took my boys to see this and it was quite the spectacle on the big screen. The upshot is that it is great entertainment, if slightly leaning to a female movie (according to my two lads). The film is ambitious punishing into, marketable but, unnecessary areas. But as far as a visual enticement - this has demo-ready scenes for your home theater. Audio, too, is dynamically unreal and is worth picking up just for the sound. The Blu-ray is flawless and while the film may not have the replay value of a Toy Story - it is still incredibly impressive a/v.

Gary Tooze

March 4th, 2014

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