This six part documentary looks at the behind the scenes making of the biggest animated film of all time, ‘Frozen II’.
However, unlike Disney Plus’ other behind the scenes series ‘Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian’ this is a proper documentary that tracks all the members of cast and crew from start to end of this project, as opposed a retrospective talk, and even though that was interesting, this is much better.
The unprecedented access to the process and input from all the different members of the crew gives us a brilliant idea of all the wide ranging aspects that go into the making of an animated film of this scale, and it gives people the respect they deserve.
It’s also fascinating to see how kind and warm an environment Jennifer Lee has built at Disney Animation and how even the biggest starts treat the lower level staff with such respect, that it makes everyone feel valued and therefore create a better product.
There were some unexpectedly emotional aspects too, including co-director Chris Buck discussing the loss of his son and how he is incorporated into ‘Frozen II’ and Jennifer Lee discussing her life as a working single mother.
Overall, I just really found this illuminating and now I am able to understand the process even better than I did before, I respect the movie even more.
This should be a way forward for Disney Plus and series’ like this should be made for all there major projects, including the future Marvel and Star Wars entries.
Rating = 4/5
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