Frozen II 2019

     Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land.  The reason they are heading to this area is to find the origin of Elsa’s powers and to save their kingdom.  Anna and Elsa believe their parents were searching for a sacred river when they left in their boat for a journey?  Their parents had also wanted to learn the source of Elsa’s powers. 
     This edition of Frozen is slightly darker and more difficult to follow??  The characters take a dangerous journey to learn more about their parents.  There is humor, big musical numbers but more intensity.  There are perilous events, elemental spirits attacking Arendelle, chases and battle scenes.  Positive messages about sisterhood, empowerment, acceptance, tolerance, perseverance and true love.  Ana and Elsa are strong women who lead confidently, communicate with and support each other.  It seemed like this film went quickly from the theater to DVD?  The normal release time is between 12-16 weeks and this was 12 weeks and 2 days so it was short time.  Release is usually delayed for a movie doing exceptionally well in theaters and lesser performers can be released at the 12 week time span.  I did see one drawback in this film!!  Why was there a musical number with Kristoff and Sven??  I wanted to fast forward??  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

103 min, Animation directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, screenplay written by Jennifer Lee and Allison Schroeder, story by Chris Buck, Kristen Anderson Lopez, Robert Lopez, Marc Smith and Jennifer Lee with Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff, Sterling K. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood, Alfred Molina, Martha Plimpton, Jason Ritter, Rachel Matthews.

Note:  Imdb 7.1 out of 10 with 74,289 views, Rotten Tomatoes 77% with 312 critics 92% audience with 48,718 ratings, Common Sense Media Sandie Angulo Chen age 6+ 5* out of 5*, 2* educational, 4* positive, 4* role models, 3* violence & scariness, 1* sexy, 1* consumerism, Roger Ebert 3 1/2* Nell Minow, Letterboxed 3.4* out of 5* with 179 reviews, Metacritic 64 out of 100 with 47 critics (29 positive 17 mixed 1 negative) 6.9 out of 10 with 372 ratings (236 positive 78 mixed 58 negative), Amazon 4.6* out of 5* with 679 reviews.
 
Special Note:  This film is set 3+ years after Frozen 2013.  The song used to call Elsa to the enchanted forest is a type of Scandinavian  herding call called kulning.  It was briefly used in the score of the first Frozen movie.  Released in theaters November 7, 2019, out on DVD February 26, 2020.  The performance of this sequel may influence having a third sequel?  It depends on the money numbers??