“Frozen”
a review by Darby O’Gill
Well, if you’ve ever been skiing before, I’m sure these thoughts have passed through your mind at least once or twice. What if this ski lift got stuck? Would I be able to jump from this height? How long would I wait before trying to get down? All these questions and more are the subject matter of the movie Frozen. When three friends… Well, two best friends and a tag-along girlfriend hit the slopes of a New England ski resort, all seems to be fine until the mountain announces they will be closing
early due to an incoming winter storm. Having spent most the day on the bunny slope to accommodate Dan’s girlfriend Parker, played by Emma Bell, the trio decide to end their day on an advanced trail, but have to bribe the ski lift operator to let them on the lift after he’s already announced the last run of the day. One slight misunderstanding later, the three find themselves stranded on the middle of the ski lift a fifty feet above the ground, and due to the mountain’s schedule, could possibly be stuck up there till next weekend, when the resort will be open again.
Frozen is like Open Water on a ski lift. It’s that little movie that will most likely get great word of mouth, and hopefully get seen by a lot of people. Let’s start that great word of mouth here. I was really excited to see writer/director Adam Green’s new movie. I enjoyed his last venture, Hatchet, but I’m even a bigger fan of Adams because he features my favorite shop in the whole world, Newbury Comics, in his films. Newbury Comic is a music/comic/toy shop in Massachusetts. 
I have been a loyal customer since high school, and highly recommend shopping at one if you ever get the chance. Okay, I’m getting a little off topic here. The other thing I really enjoyed about Frozen, was its ability to take place in one location for the entire film. Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, and Kevin Zegers give outstanding performances, and I think the audience will find it easy to relate to their characters. But, I think the thing I loved the most, is that Adam Green gave a shout-out to Wachusett Mountain in the film, which is the mountain that I skied on growing up in New England. I’m just glad I didn’t have to ski there this year after seeing this movie. I really hope this movie does well. I think that its little movies like this that make movie making exciting. It may not be the best movie of the year, but it is truly the first must see movie of 2010 in my book. In a nutshell, go see it. Don’t see it in a nutshell, see it in a theatre. You know what I mean. Go see it.
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It’s the year 2154 and groups of people from Earth have traveled to the distant planet of Pandora to harvest a rare mineral called Unobtanium. Don’t worry. We’ll come back to that too. The only thing standing in the way of our obtaining the Unobtanium (God, even I want to punch me in the face.) is the natives of Pandora, called the Na’vi. They’re basically giant blue cat-monkeys. Sorry if anyone thinks that’s racist. I don’t want to aggravate you’re Pandora Blues Syndrome. We’ll get back to that as well. So, before the conflict started getting out of hand, the humans tried to negotiate with the Na’vi, by using Avatars. An Avatar is a bioengineered life form that is a mix of Na’vi DNA and the human controller’s DNA. 
It’s like virtual reality, but you’re not in a simulated computer system. Instead, your consciousness is uploaded into the Avatar body in the real world. When Jake Sully, a paraplegic war veteran, played by 
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I think we are just not as easily impressed with ground breaking effects these days. In the last decade, we’ve seen so many amazing leaps in special effects, and it’s hard to see what took twelve years to achieve in this film. It’s the kind of thing where you really need to see the behind the scenes footage to fully appreciate what they’ve done.
It’s really hard to enjoy a movie when you don’t care about the world you are in, and you know every twist and turn of the story, because you’ve heard it before. 
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Like I said, the movie really could have been made with a cast of thirty year olds, but there is something great about the fact that it’s not. Now, don’t get me wrong. There are jokes about being older, but the nice thing is that they don’t rely on it like most films would. The cast, as you would expect, is fantastic! The pacing is pitch perfect. And if nothing else, 
In the film, when Mr. Fox finds out he’s about to have a family, he is forced to give up his wild ways of chicken coop raiding. Then, one day when Mr. Fox decides to buy the family a new home inside a tree on top of a hill, he is faced with the ultimate heist. Not one, not two, but three farms all ripe for the picking. How could Mr. Fox resist? So he decides to pull one last job… Well, three jobs. But, when things go south, and it’s not just Mr. Fox that has to pay the price. It also puts the whole animal community in danger.
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it can get any hokier? Well, it does. The New York city slickers get relocated to a small town in Wyoming. The comedy just writes itself, doesn’t it? I really need to stop watching movies like this. I don’t know what else to say… I usually enjoy 
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I’ve been a fan of Wesley’s since college, and I even got to see him perform at a small venue in Columbus, Ohio. To this day, I’m so glad I didn’t let that opportunity pass me by. In the last eight years here in Los Angeles, I’ve been able to see a lot of amazing performances, by some of the biggest names in music, in a room of maybe ten people, and to this day seeing Wesley still tops a lot of those moments. I’m proud to say I was head bunted by 
