The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.
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It’s Frozen without the fun.
Anyway, it's like Frozen meets Tolkien meets Brian De Palma's Sisters, but not nearly as good as that sounds.
Freya, an ice queen whose powers clearly mirror those of Frozen ’s Elsa, leaves her sister’s kingdom and goes off to start a new kingdom of her own.
In a turn that not-so-subtly rips off “Frozen,” Freya realizes her full powers to command ice and snow when she is brutally spurned by her lover.
The carnage is all the more grisly when considered in the context of the film's narrative, which exists largely to cross Snow White with that most lucrative of contemporary fairy tales: Disney's Frozen .
It’s a move so nakedly calculating that it’s kind of endearing, because what follows is effectively a gritty take on Frozen in which the sisters are the villains.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Directed by Andrew Adamson
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His talents enliven a rousing end battle that showcases all manner of grotesque sorcery (but with ice statue victims lifted straight out of “The Chronicles of Narnia,” of course).
…different motifs from "Lord of the Rings" "The Chronicles of Narnia" "Game of Thrones" and "The Hunger Games."
Tampoco ayuda el hecho de que el mundo creado recuerde constantemente a otros universos mejor construidos ( Narnia , Once Upon a Time, Frozen , Valiente) .
It’s mostly exposition, incorporating elements from the aforementioned “Game of Thrones” and “Frozen” — as well as “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Clash of the Titans” and the original film — and throws it all at the screen to see if anything sticks.
Eso, pese a que un grupo de enanos (no siete, sino cuatro en esta ocasión, entre ellos, un Nick Frost al que cuesta ver sin Simon Pegg a su lado) que acompañan a los protagonistas funcionan (aunque a veces cargan) como típica aportación cómica con la que dotar de un aire más familiar a la historia, que encuentra en el recuerdo de Willow (Ron Howard, 1988) y la saga El señor de los anillos de Peter Jackson a su mayor enemigo.
The costumes are mind-bogglingly beautiful, though—the work of the great Colleen Atwood , 11-time Oscar nominee and three-time winner (for “ Chicago ,” “ Memoirs of a Geisha ” and “ Alice in Wonderland ”) who also designed the clothes for the original “Huntsman.”