If you are a fan of “Tangled,” you will not want to miss the chance to see “Tangled Ever After,” a short released in 2012. If you saw “Beauty and the Beast” when it was re-released in 3D, this was shown right before the feature. That was the only way you could see this film unless someone posted it on YouTube or somewhere you could see it online for free.
“Tangled Ever After” lasts for 6 minutes. It stars Zachary Levi and Mandy Moore reprising their roles from the movie. This sweet short shows Rapunzel marrying Flynn. Maximus has a small problem with the rings and has to run all around town. He ends up in a dress, with a hat on, and looking downright funny!
Mandy Robinson admitted in her review, “As a fan of the original movie 'Tangled,' I was so glad to see this flick stay true to the original.” It is the same characters and just a nice addition to the story Disney girls already adore! If you could find this short somewhere online, I highly recommend everyone does. Check it out because you will be glad you did!
Now we come to the next short that came out earlier this year. After the award-winning, world-favorite performance, here comes the latest short. “Frozen Fever,” the 2015 animated short that was seen in theaters before Disney’s live-action remake of “Cinderella,” gives “Frozen” fans exactly what they want – and, exactly on purpose, nothing more than that for the time being, at least.
Robbie Collin said in his review, “The centrepiece is Making Today a Perfect Day, a tuberculotically catchy new song from the writers of Let It Go, sung by Idina Menzel’s snow-queen Elsa as she arranges birthday celebrations for her sister Anna (Kristen Bell). Elsa is valiantly fighting off a viral infection – “a cold never bothered me anyway,” she trills, in a line that will give parents everywhere neck-moistening flashbacks to rival Martin Sheen’s in the prologue to Apocalypse Now. But the pressures of cake-decorating and present-hiding are taking their toll, and when she sneezes, beautifully designed, spooky-cute little snow-creatures, like Arctic cousins of the tree spirits in Princess Mononoke, pop into existence around her head.”
The song itself seems determined to be as much of a birthday-party addition as the ice-blue and moss-green polyester dresses that have been coming out of Disney Stores everywhere since last November. “For everything you are to me and all you’ve been through,” Elsa sings, “I’m making today a perfect day for you.” Collin admitted, “It’s a lip-smacking confection, dusted with pure icing sugar, and suggests that songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez are capable of coming up with something special for the forthcoming feature-length Frozen sequel.”
As the song goes one, Elsa and Anna go back to moments from their previous movie – jumping alongside paintings in Arendelle Castle’s galleries, skipping on the balcony of the astronomical clock where Anna and Hans sang Love is an Open Door, and leaping down the now-legendary “why have a ballroom with no balls” hallway. There are cameos from Olaf the snowman (Josh Gad, a former correspondent on “The Daily Show”), Sven the reindeer, Oaken the shopkeeper (Chris Williams) and even Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) with one or two others. Collin mentioned, “Most of the things that made Frozen Frozen are seen, glimpsed, or referenced: only the outfits are completely new, magicked up with an elegant swish of Elsa’s fingertips.”
Because “Frozen Fever” is happy to diversely rest on and revive past beauties, there’s no sign of where “Frozen 2” might be headed other than a passionate reappearance of the general “yay sisterhood” theme. Seeing Elsa and Anna back again for eight minutes is great for the fans, pulled off with no little confidence, and with a surprisingly touching payoff where the roles of older and younger sister are temporarily and nicely reverse. However, to maintain a second movie, you think they’ll have to be separated again, and their relationship put to the test.
If you haven’t seen these two shorts, I highly suggest that you see them when you get the chance. Find them online if you can, or I’m sure they are available somewhere. However, these get a high recommendation from me. You will love them, I promise you.
Well, now we have come to the end of “Disney Sequel Month.” I hope all of you enjoyed my reviews and I hope I made some good recommendations. Happy New Year’s Eve guys! I’ll see all of you next year for more exciting reviews.
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