4/1/2024 0 Comments Girl power moviesOur family was gripped by Frozen mania long before the term “basic” fell into common usage. I don’t think I can quite beat that but sometimes it felt like it. Serena Williams once claimed to have watched the film 3,000 times. At the height of Frozen’s success, the waiting time to see Elsa at Disney World, Florida, was four hours. The original 2013 movie took more than $1bn at the box office and more than that in merchandising, became Amazon’s bestselling children’s film DVD of all time, solely based on pre-orders, and pushed Elsa, the name of the ice princess who can’t control her powers, into the top 100 names for British babies. This week sees the opening of Frozen II, a launch long awaited by seven-year-olds who want to be ice-pick-wielding princesses and long dreaded by parents who have only just about got over the psychological scars caused by the soundtrack of the first film: “I mean it’s crazy…” “What?” “We finish each other’s sandwiches.” How those words linger in what is left of my mind. ![]() Not that the earworm of the century was going to die anyway, with the official YouTube video of Let It Go at 1.8 billion views and counting, six years on from the original film. N o matter how many times we were told, we wouldn’t let it go.
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