Frozen (2013)

FINALLY!

i was so looking forward to this one.. and for quite some time to... i even set up to watching it and my besties wasn't up for it since he wanted us to watch it together... so i waited.. last weekend (oh i know it's like i live on another planet these days) we got around to watching it and i was not even the slightest disappointed.. . might be the love i have for all them animations... anywho...

frozen is about 2 siblings a strained from each other after a small accident one night when they were kids... so they grow up pretty much alone all the time.. when the oldest sister Elsa comes of age she is crowned which require a small (like huge) party.. during the party the younger sister Anna falls for this guy and decides that marriage is a great idea... Elsa isn't really up for that idea and in a state of anger she lets her powers of ice show and well then the trouble kinda starts and Elsa runs away leaving everyone else confused and slightly scared of their new queen. Anna on the other hand just wants to get her sister back and that leaves her with only one choice... go get Elsa back... yeah that sounds like an awesome idea...

yeah i was one of those people who found the video with Olaf and Svend and shared it with basically everybody who let there guard down just for a minute... anywho Frozen... well i know enough stories to know that this is an interpretation of the Snow Queen. also i'm danish.. H. C. Anderson is kinda mandatory... but well pretty much all Disney movies is interpretations of fairy tales... I love those and i love this... i love this a lot actually. It is about sisterly love, it is about finding yourself and mostly it is about being free and accept who you really are instead of hiding.. 

and as a bigger sister i can recognize small things that are just things sisters do... and even more.. i think it really captures how siblings just love each other unconditional... well most siblings do though... and that is like the thing little girls all over the world is gonna see to... and lets face it this is a fairy tale for girls.. well most Disney's are by the way...  

 

well now i'm just gonna go back to singing along to this wonderful movie that i'm gonna love owning in the nearest future :D 

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)

Santa's back. It's been 2 years since Scott got married to Carol. Carol is pregnant (wow like this won't screw someone up) Anyway being pregnant Carol is missing well tall people. Scott is behind on his schedule because he wants to bee as much as possible with his wife. To make Carol feel less homesick Scott brings her parents (and his ex-wife and her family) up for Christmas. However the board of legendary icons is having some trouble with Jack Frost. Jack Frost is kinda mad that he doesn't have his own holiday, therefor he is trying to steal Christmas. With the baby on the way Scott agrees on letting Frost help out. Frost uses the time to figure out how the Escape Clause works, so he can trick Scott and become Santa himself

Third times the charm right. Love the Frost character. He makes everything goes wrong. All and all another great Disney adventure on the North Pole. It is more a family drama than the others giving the baby and the secrets they keep from Carols parents, they have been told that Scott is working at a toy factory in Canada.

so go get that hot Chocolate and if you haven't seen the others then start that mini Christmas marathon watching the magic of the North pole.

The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

So went home to my parents this weekend thinking I wasn't gonna need my laptop (BirthE) since my dad has a laptop I'm allowed to use... WRONG! the thing is I'm not really allowed to install programs on it making it kinda hard watching the movies. Then i got home on Monday and the will to watch anything was just not there..  This is why I'm sry to say that I'm a bit behind >.< But I'm gonna catch up today... Nothing like a day off to just watch Movies ;)

As promised I'm all over The Santa Clause 2. In the first movie we meet Scott Calvin before he became Santa Clause. Today he has embraced his job as Santa Clause, however he is now faced with another clause in the Santa agreement. After working as Santa for 10 years he has about 28 days to find a Mrs. Clause. Not the easiest job  when you live on the North pole. Also there's the thing about Charlie ending up on the naughty list.

Okay maybe I should just admit that i love the Santa Clause Movies. and who doesn't love Curtis when he begins with the big words promoting the ending of Christmas. He is just so sweet. I love that they made a sequel that doesn't have this thin story line to follow. The story is well built and it is funny. You have your laughs and your almost crying moments because it's so sweet (last part might be a girl-thing).. And as a fan of Elizabeth Mitchell there is no way around that I just goes into aaauw mode when she shows up all cold and cute in this one ;)

Find Your Cocoa (remember not to hot, extra chocolate and shaken not stirred) and enjoy Santa Clause's search for a wife :)

The Santa Clause (1994)

In the Santa Clause Scott Calvin has his son for Christmas. After setting the turkey on fire twice Scott decides it is better to find a open diner. Being Christmas and all its not the easiest thing in the world to find a place that's open. When it's bed time Scott is reading a bedtime story to his son charlie about Santa. Charlie is having doubts about Santa Clause being real since he has been told that Santa is more a feeling than an actual person. That night Scott and Charlie sees Santa Claus and ehm kills him by accident. The thing is that when Santa dies a new must become Santa. Meaning that Scott becomes Santa, very much against his will.

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The Santa Clause is a favorite of mine. Even lost count of how many times i actually watched it. Guess it's just Disney being at the top of their game. You know funny, cute and meaningfull at the same time (oh a kinder eggs)... not much else to say than I love this movie...

sry for the short review today... work came up so ran out off time.. but i promise you this tomorrow I'm gonna watch the Santa Clause 2 :)

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)

In need of a cartoon I rounded up Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas... Being a Disney I'm pretty sure it's gonna be good.. Disney do after all have a way of making instant classics... (just add water)

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is divided in 3 small stories; Donald Duck´: Stuck on Christmas, A very Goofy Christmas and Mickey & Minnie's Gift of the Magi

In Donald Duck: Stuck at Christmas Huey, Dewey and Louie (boy that's different from Rip, Rap and Rup) is being rude and selfless. At the night of the 25th december they wish that they could have Christmas everyday. But is it still magic and fun if it's Christmas everyday?

A very Goofy Christmas tells the tale of beliefs. Knowing Goofy of Cause he believe in Santa Claus. Max however has a bit of doubt. Goofy is doing everything to keep the magic alive in his very own goofy way. Something is wrong in the Goofy house if everything goes right.

Mickey & Minnie's Gift of the Magi is about doing good for others.. even when you don't have a lot. Mickey and Minnie don't have a lot but instead of just thinking about themselves they help out wherever they can. 

so like I predicted it's an instant classic. it's very entertaining and it actually got the Christmas spirit to rise within me, like a lot,. But then again it's also close to match to the childhood memory of the annual Christmas show provided by Disney that i have seen on the 24th since well since i can remember. I Love this one for they way it shows the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas will always be about Family, Beliefs and giving to others.  :) 

That's it for today come back tomorrow.. it's gonna bee The Nightmare before Christmas ;)

One Magic Christmas (1985)

I LOVE Christmas. Unfortunately for me i work nights a couple of times every week so following the daily episode of whatever advent calender is on TV is kinda hard. So i present you with my own advent calender. For 24 days am i gonna review a movie with Christmas as a theme (preferably the main one) so that the Christmas feeling can find its way to me to ;)

So today is the 1st December, and my choose to go back in time to One Magic Christmas. Must say I'd never really heard anything about this movie so I figured this would be as good a place as any to start on.

So first thing i noticed is that this is a Disney production. Cool huh. Anyway around Christmas all the Christmas Angels gets there assignments by Nicholas. One Angel, Gideon, is sent to a shopping mall to find and help Ginny Grainger to find the Christmas Spirit. You see Ginny is not really big on Christmas and therefor stands as a big challenge for Gideon. Gideon then allies with Ginny's daughter on trying to make her believe in Christmas and Santa Claus again.

Sadly the only trailer for this movie on YouTube was someone making a horror trailer for it.. So instead i found this one with bits and pieces from the movie.. a bit of a spoiler alert though since it is whole scenes from it and not just a bit of quotes.

So what did i think of this movie... Well uhm I don't really know. It's not a bad movie not at all. but really slow and the story is very small. Might just be me being to used to major stories great effects and other stuff that movies holds today. Anyway i got a little bored along the way and honestly I didn't get the biggest Christmas feel of it. However (don't you just love how bad I am at making a decision) I myself is not in the biggest Christmas mood yet and guess this could have an impact on the movie.

My final conclusion is as follows if you have nothing else to watch this is a fine movie to put on. If you like older movies then sure go ahead. But my feel is don't go out choosing this one over others. The story about a parent who don't believe in Christmas anymore and has to be turned back to the spirit isn't like the most original and there are other movies that makes a better job at telling it.

so with this said happy December the 1. and welcome to my advent calender ;)

New vs. Old: The Parent Trap

So just because I can I decided to take a look on some movie remakes, comparing them to the old one. (hit's in the title ha?)... so I'll be take 2 movies at a time, watching the original one first (the old) and then the remake (the new) and then start rambling here about the 2 of them.. telling which one i preferred (if I can)

So let the battle begin. Disney has been so kind to make a remake of one of their own movies. They started of by making The Parent Trap in 1961 (following up with a sequel in 1986 wup wup) and then about 37 years later Disney rounds up a cute little Lindsay Lohan for a remake of The Parent Trap in 1998.

The Parent Trap is about 2 girls meeting at summer camp. They look like one another (well they are twins) but instead of just clicking they starts doing pranks on one another. Finally they screw up big time and are punished to be in solitude with each other. In the end they starts talking, figuring out they are twins and decides to switch places so they can meet the parent they never met. Also in this plan is the fact that they at some point have to switch back again forcing the parents to meet again. But there are some complications to the plan...

So getting a trailer for The Parent Trap 1961 on YouTube is pretty much imposible so this is all i could come up with

So I was one of those who grew up with the second version of The Parent Trap, I did learn about the first one a while ago but never really got around to watching it. Now I have.. must say that beside the Language and clothes having changed over the years and a few scenes, they are actually pretty similar :) this also makes it kinda hard to say you should chose not to watch one of them.

The old one is great... especially if you are into older movies. The new one is more modern (naturally) and I actually know the actors and actresses in that one. ;) If i have to chose it would fall on the new one. The pranks are so much more imaginative in this one. Also I love the fact that it takes a lot longer for the twins to notice one another. And let's face it Lindsay Lohan with her beautiful red hair and blue eyes is just adorable :) And of cause giving that technology has gotten better over the years there's better effects in the new one like getting to see the landscape and stuff... making me like the movie a lot more.

Also I have befriended IMDb.com (geeky me) and learned that there is the original parent trap from 61, followed by the sequel in 86, a third in 89 and a little bonus in The Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon also in 89. Guess i have some work cut out for me trying to find those three.

uh and a really cool fact, the woman (Joanna Barnes) who plays the girlfriend in The Parent Trap from 61 is playing the girlfriends MOM in The Parent Trap from 98

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

So there would be no point whatsoever to hide that I'm a HUGE fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. And i would be lying if i said that I hadn't been waiting for On Stranger Tides since, well since they started talking about making it. And I am happy to say that in no way was I disappointed when I FINALLY got to see it. I simply just love it! Once again Johnny Depp portraits the oh so lovely Captain Jack Sparrow in all his problems. Beside having lost The Black Pearl... well again... Jack also has an imposter running around trying to recruit a crew... is there any way this could not go wrong?

Nah.. and just like the first 3 movies you go on the hunt for riches, revenge and a bit of love.. and yet not quite the same. However going into details is a major spoiler alert. Not really up for doing that.

I do however feel the need to point something out. I've seen more than one person complaining about how On Stranger Tides doesn't tie with the first 3 movies. Some even seem to find it a bad thing that they made a Pirates without Elizabeth and Will. o.O

Well this is how it is.. The 3 first Pirates of the Caribbean is a trilogy. Their main theme is without a doubt the love story between Elizabeth and Will (apologies) and you must admit that this little story tied up in a nice little bow in At Worlds End.

Now Moving on to On Stanger Tides. Well first of it is left with the promise of being the beginning of a new Trilogy. I am not sure about the main theme yet but I don't really seems to care for it at the moment. The point being it has a NEW main theme. Therefor it should not suffer under the assumption that it just starts where the third movie left us. Savvy?

all there is left to say is.. there is a long long LONG time till 2013 where we should be so lucky to encounter Captain Jack Sparrow again in a fifth movie.